The PlayFutbol Blog
What our player database actually shows — figures computed from verified data, with the limits stated rather than hidden.
DataPlayer DatabaseStar Signs
Footballers by Star Sign: What Birth Dates Show
Aquarius outnumbers the rarest sign by 1.9x in our database. The reason has nothing to do with the stars and everything to do with youth-team cutoff dates.
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DataPlayer DatabasePartnerships
Football’s Longest Partnerships, Ranked
11,423 verified teammate pairs from 739 players. The longest ran 21 years — and the zodiac explains exactly none of it.
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DataEngineeringPlayer Names
What Footballers’ Names Do to Software
14.0% of the names we track carry a diacritic, across 33 distinct characters. Three of them defeat normalisation entirely.
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DataEngineeringImagery
The Images We Refuse to Generate
198 of 203 clubs have a crest. The 5 that do not each broke automated matching in a different way — and generating a replacement would be a forgery.
· 7 min read