The 100-Goal Goalkeeper and the Dentist Manager: Football's Most Unexpected CVs

The goalkeeper who clocked in and scored

Brazil's Rogerio Ceni was a goalkeeper with more than 100 career goals. He took free kicks and penalties himself. He went to work to stop goals and came home having scored some, with a record plenty of forwards would envy.

Strikers in gloves

In 2014, Harry Kane scored a hat-trick for Tottenham against Asteras and then went in goal as well. Three goals and a shift as a goalkeeper is a busy night by anyone's standards.

AC Milan's Olivier Giroud went further in 2023. When goalkeeper Mike Maignan was sent off at Genoa, Giroud pulled on the gloves, made a save to protect the win and was voted man of the match by the fans. A striker, voted best on the pitch for playing in goal.

Petr Cech goes to the ice

Chelsea legend Petr Cech made his competitive ice hockey debut in 2019, the year he retired from football. His position, naturally, was goalkeeper. He saved two shots in the shootout on debut and was named man of the match.

He changed sports without changing jobs.

Checking teeth and tactics

Heimir Hallgrimsson, joint coach of Iceland's surprise team at Euro 2016, was a dentist. He kept running his practice back home while working with the national team, and saw patients whenever the schedule allowed.

Meanwhile, Iceland's thunderclap rang out around Europe all summer.

The great man on a bucket

At Leeds, Marcelo Bielsa preferred to sit on a bucket by the touchline instead of on the bench. The image became so iconic that Leeds later made a marble monument in the shape of that bucket. Few objects have ever been promoted so far.

A miracle made of pizza

Before the 2015/16 season, Leicester City were 5,000-1 to win the title. Claudio Ranieri promised his players pizza if they kept a clean sheet. He kept his word, with one condition: the players had to go to the pizzeria and make the pizzas themselves.

Those pizza makers went on to win the Premier League. Their goalkeeper, Kasper Schmeichel, was the son of Manchester United legend Peter Schmeichel. Pitch it as a film and someone would say it was too neat.