SoundOff: Which Footballers Have Scored Against Their Former Clubs?

By: Daryl | October 5th, 2009

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Kenny Miller scored both goals for Rangers in the Old Firm derby this weekend. The same Kenny Miller who used to play for Celtic in 2006/7.

Players scoring against their former employers isn’t all that rare. In fact it seems weirdly common. It’s one of the unwritten laws of football.

Maybe the players have extra motivation? Or is it just that when a player scores against a former team, everyone pays a little more attention?

Below are a couple other examples of players returning to haunt their ex-teammates, but then we’re looking for your suggestions in the comments…

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Luis Figo (very very) famously made the switch from Barcelona to Real Madrid in 2000. In Novemeber 2001 he was on target in El Clasico, to give Real Madrid a 2-0 win.

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More recently there was Emmanuel Adebayor scoring for Man City against Arsenal and celebrating like a mad fool. You may have already heard about this one.

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In 1974, Man Utd legend was seeing out his career with a season across town at Man City, and ended up scoring the outrageous backheel (below) against his beloved former team. Law believed at the time that the goal had relegated Man Utd, but apparently it made no difference in the end. Still, got to appreciate the deliberately muted celebration.

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Mahamadou Diarra left Lyon for Real Madrid, and then scored against hid former French teammates in the Champions League:

(thanks to Inara for that one).

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So, over to you. Which players have scored against their former clubs? We’ll add the most memorable to the list here.

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• Luka |  October 5th, 2009 at 8:15 am

  
  
  

  Andreas Yacob-Haddad, against Assyriska this season:
  http://assyriska.theoffside.com/match-reviews/assyriskaff-1-1-qviding-fif-the-unwritten-laws-of-football.html

  Posted from Australia

  

• Luka |  October 5th, 2009 at 8:15 am

  
  
  

  I don’t expect it to make the list though haha.

  Posted from Australia

  

• Inara |  October 5th, 2009 at 8:27 am

  
  
  

  Mahamadou Diarra against Lyon in the Champions League, barely four months after he left us for Real Madrid. The bastard.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrLKldM6jPo

  Posted from United States

  

• Daryl |  October 5th, 2009 at 8:57 am

  
  
  

  Luka,

  Is that reverse psychology?

  Posted from United States

  

• Al |  October 5th, 2009 at 9:29 am

  
  
  

  If you count loans, Nikola Zigic scored for Valencia against Racing yesterday (where he was loaned to).

  Tevez scored once (or twice) against West Ham. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfiIZ2JE5TU amazing goal

  Diego Forlan scored twice against Villarreal last season.
  The first one was quite nice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-NyMsdoOQ (second goal)

  Posted from United States

  

• Luka |  October 5th, 2009 at 9:55 am

  
  
  

  @ Daryl – no, I was genuinely putting it down haha.

  Posted from Australia

  

• Brad |  October 5th, 2009 at 10:50 am

  
  
  

  I couldn’t find the goal by itself, but at 3:28 in this video is Mark Viduka scoring against Boro.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4wYEhoW9cc

  Posted from United States

  

• DG |  October 5th, 2009 at 12:44 pm

  
  
  

  Fat Ronaldo against Inter

  Posted from United States

  

• Dhaw |  October 5th, 2009 at 2:46 pm

  
  
  

  Fiorentina Legend Gabriel Omar Batistuta scoring against his club after completing a move to AS Roma.

  He was emotional about it –

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yptEUrgqYN0 What a Rocket !

  Posted from United States

  

• amal |  October 5th, 2009 at 3:53 pm

  
  
  

  samuel eto’o against madrid and espanyol
  ..

  Posted from United States

  

• L'pool |  October 5th, 2009 at 4:25 pm

  
  
  

  Robbie Keane scored against Liverpool in the last game of the season, although he was only with us for 6 months

  Posted from Australia

  

• alessio |  October 5th, 2009 at 6:07 pm

  
  
  

  I am proud to say Zlatan “Zingaro” Ibrahimovic is not on this list, despite countless opportunities while at Inter.

  Choker.

  Posted from United States

  

• Jose25 |  October 5th, 2009 at 9:55 pm

  
  
  

  Cristiano Ronaldo has scored against his old club (Oporto) in the CL, and had a pleasantly muted celebration afterwards. This was a few seasons back.

  And yes, Eto’o against Real Madrid. Eto’o against Real Madrid a THOUSAND TIMES.

  Posted from United States

  

• Thomson |  October 6th, 2009 at 7:57 am

  
  
  

  Cristiano Ronaldo has never played for FC Porto.
  I think you meant Sporting CP?

  Posted from Netherlands

  

• Oli |  October 6th, 2009 at 10:19 am

  
  
  

  Ironic, that just a few short days after this post, David Dunne goes and rubs it all in faces of Man City.

  Maybe a Prophesy?

  Posted from United Kingdom

  

• Jaffery |  October 6th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

  
  
  

  Morientes against Real Madrid while at Monaco..

  Posted from United States

  

• Tommy Wong |  October 9th, 2009 at 9:15 pm

  
  
  

  Alecko Eskandarian went on a tear either earlier this year, or last year (MLS format confuses me), and scored against every single one of this former clubs (dc united, toronto fc, real salt lake, and chivas USA) and capped it off by scoring against the new york red bulls who’s stadium is actually in bergen county new jersey… the county he grew up and his family lives in.

  Impressive.

  Posted from United States

  

• jmmmy |  October 10th, 2009 at 6:42 am

  
  
  

  as a newcastle fan, i think just about every rubbish player we have sold to another premiership club has come back to score against us at one point. looking at titus bramble and abdulay faye inparticular.

  Posted from United Kingdom

  

• Whitby Bhoy |  October 11th, 2009 at 6:26 am

  
  
  

  Larsson scored against Celtic when he was with Barcelona but showed total class and did not celebrate.

  Posted from United States

  

• Svergentina |  October 13th, 2009 at 8:05 am

  
  
  

  HENRIK LARSSON!

  He scored in the Champion’s League final against his BELOVED Celtic. His reserved celebration represents this:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgvRjYPQkzA

  Posted from United States

  

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