Elliott described him as `` a typical modern-day centre-half : tall , athletic and aggressive '' .
In Hull City 's maiden European season Jelavić returned from Croatia 's 2014 World Cup campaign early due to the sale of his strike partnersports.sports_team_rosterLong .
One year later in 1960 , Veeck and former Detroit Tigers great Hank Greenberg , his partnersports.sports_team_rosterthe Indians and White Sox , reportedly made a strong bid for the American League expansion franchise in Los Angeles .
He represented France , along with his partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationsix-time Olympian Xavier Rohart at the 2012 Summer Olympics , and has also been training for Ouest Nautical Sports Club ( ) throughout most of his sporting career .
Christopher Colin Dean , OBE ( born 27 July 1958 in Calverton , Nottinghamshire ) is an English ice dancer who won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics with his skating partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationTorvill .
After reaching the First Division with Newcastle , Beardsley became a regular in the England side in the second half of the 1980s , and teamed up with striker Gary Lineker , who described Beardsley as `` the best partnersports.sports_team_rostercould ever have '' .
He and his former partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationJake Gibb , represented the United States at the 2008 Olympic Games and 2012 Olympic Games in beach volleyball .
Although Keith was expected to retain Seabrook as his defensive partnersports.sports_team_rosterthe NHL to Team Canada , Seabrook ended up as the designated seventh defenceman , while Keith formed a pairing with Drew Doughty of the Los Angeles Kings .
Romário moved to Spain 's FC Barcelona for the 1993–94 season and became part of Johan Cruyff 's `` Dream Team '' , in which , along with players such as strike partnersports.sports_team_rosterStoichkov , midfielders José Mari Bakero , Pep Guardiola and Michael Laudrup , and prolific goalscoring defender Ronald Koeman , he helped the club win the La Liga title , while becoming the season 's top goalscorer with 30 goals in 33 matches .
Ricardo Alex Costa Santos ( born January 6 , 1975 in Salvador da Bahia ) is a beach volleyball player from Brazil , who won the silver medal in the men 's beach team competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , Australia , with partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationMarco de Melo .
Insfran and partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationAraújo won the bronze medal at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , and represented their native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , Greece .
Together with his most recent partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationBrink , he won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , which was the most successful Olympic appearance of a German beach volleyball team ever .
He scored nine goals in 23 league games , as head coach Hans Backe tended to select Rodgers ahead of USA international Juan Agudelo as Henry 's strike partnersports.sports_team_roster
Rebrov gained international fame as an attacking partnersports.sports_team_rosterAndriy Shevchenko at Dynamo Kyiv throughout the 1990s and remains the all-time top scorer of the Ukrainian Premier League .
To provide Bosh with an experienced frontcourt partnersports.sports_team_rosterthe Raptors pulled blockbuster trade prior to the 2008–09 campaign : six-time All-Star Jermaine O'Neal was acquired from the Indiana Pacers in exchange for Ford , Rasho Nesterovič , and Roy Hibbert , the 17th pick in the 2008 NBA draft .
Lee Hyo-jung also won the silver medal in badminton women 's doubles at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics with her partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationLee Kyung-won ; they were seeded fourth and lost to the second-seeded Chinese pair , Du Jing and Yu Yang .
In the 1984 summer , Sousa and longtime Porto central midfield partnersports.sports_team_rosterPacheco signed with Sporting Clube de Portugal – as part of the deal that sent 17-year-old prodigy Paulo Futre in the opposite direction – with the pair returning after two seasons .
Jarrod McCracken 's football career came to a premature end in round 15 of the 2000 NRL competition in a game against the Melbourne Storm , when Storm players Stephen Kearney ( a long time Kiwis team mate and in later years test second-row partnersports.sports_team_rosterand Marcus Bai performed a dangerous spear tackle on him , inflicting a career-ending neck injury .
He has had a variety of color analysts including former Detroit Pistons players John Mengelt , Dave Bing , Vinnie Johnson , Kelly Tripucka , Bill Laimbeer , Rick Mahorn , and current partnersports.sports_team_rosterKelser .
Servet began the season with a new partnersports.sports_team_rosterthe heart of the defense with the newly signed Gökhan Zan , Servet 's central defence partner for the Turkish National Team .
Wales would then face Ireland in the first quarter final with Roberts face up to old Lions centre partnersports.sports_team_rosterO'Driscoll .
Venables brought Gary Lineker back from Barcelona , and Stewart was selected to be Lineker 's striker partnersports.sports_team_rosterthe 1989–90 season , leaving Walsh on the bench .
Sun also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics , defeating Conchita Martínez and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain in the women 's tennis doubles final to win a gold medal along with her partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationTing .
On 5 August 2012 , Hlaváčková won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London along with her women 's doubles partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationHradecká .
Cohen hoped to help Hibernians retain the Maltese Premier League title for the 2009–10 , however the quest took some severe setbacks , as Hibernians sold the Maltese Player of the Year , Clayton Failla to Sliema Wanderers , and Cohen 's strike partnersports.sports_team_rosterTerence Scerri joined Valletta .
Having been released by Sheffield United , Ashmore signed a one-year deal with their partnersports.sports_team_roster, Ferencváros , managed by former Blade and Everton defender Craig Short .
Lamb met his halves partnersports.sports_team_rosteryoung Parramatta halfback Peter Sterling , for the first time only two hours before kickoff .
When Klechová 's partnersports.sports_team_rosterKiss was loaned from Cardiff City to Ross County in January 2014 , she made a similar move from Cardiff City Ladies to Inverness City .
She won her first Olympic medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics where she won a bronze with partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationHeymans in the synchronized 10 m platform event .
A big miss for Rangers was influential defender Madjid Bougherra with a calf injury so manager Walter Smith chose to partnersports.sports_team_rosterBroadfoot at the back alongside David Weir .
Summer Louise Lochowicz ( born 30 March 1978 in Townsville , Queensland ) is an Australian beach volleyball player and team partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationKerri Pottharst in her Olympic debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens .
Li competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics , earning a gold medal in the women 's 10 meter synchronized platform diving along with her team partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationLishi .
In Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics , Hwang and his partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationwon their first bronze medal after upsetting Choong Tan Fook/Lee Wan Wah in the first round , Tadashi Ohtsuka/Keita Masuda in the quarter-final , but defeated by Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng of China in the semifinal .
In Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics , Lee and his partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationwon their first bronze medal after upsetting Choong Tan Fook/Lee Wan Wah in the first round , Tadashi Ohtsuka/Keita Masuda in the quarter-final , but defeated by Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng of China in the semifinal .
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , Tian and her partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationJie won the silver medal in the women 's beach volleyball competition , going undefeated until losing in the final to Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh of the United States .
Lineker 's strike partnersports.sports_team_rosterHughes also left Barcelona and returned to his old club Manchester United in a £1.8 million deal .
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson attempted to sign Lineker to partnersports.sports_team_rosterex-Barcelona team-mate Mark Hughes in attack , but Lineker signed with Tottenham Hotspur in July 1989 .
Li competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics , defeating Spain to win a gold medal in the women 's tennis doubles along with her partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationTiantian .
She lived in nearby Malmö with her partnersports.sports_team_rosterLassen , the Danish professional ice hockey player who was playing for Malmö Redhawks .
Following the departure of strike partnersports.sports_team_rosterTorres to Liverpool in the summer of 2007 , Agüero secured his starting spot for the `` Rojiblancos '' and soon became arguably the team 's most important player at the age of just 19 .
In 2001 , he was bought by Danish side Aalborg BK in 2001 , where he joined his international striking partnersports.sports_team_rosterOper .
In 2010 while playing for the Philadelphia Independence , Lohman met her ex partnersports.sports_team_rosterPhiladelphia teammate and English international Lianne Sanderson .
At the 2000 FINA Diving World Cup , Huang Qiang and his partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationLiang won the gold medal at the 10m synchronised event and the pair was viewed as a strong contender for gold at the 2000 Summer Olympics but Huang Qiang withdrew from the competition due to a back injury .
In the diving events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , he won the Silver medal in the men 's synchronised 10 metre platform , with partnerolympics.olympic_athlete_affiliationWaterfield .
One high point at this time was the emergence of a 16-year-old striker named John Toshack who would go on to become an important part of the team for several years , along with his strike partnersports.sports_team_rosterClark , before a high profile switch to Liverpool .