The best footballing brothers

[Red Star One]

When there are so many of them that you're forced to go numerical

They were pretty good:
Arnaldo was a keeper for Napoli, spending over a decade there and serving as their captain
Vittorio was an attacking midfielder with more than 200 games for Juve in Serie A alone (62 goals)
Primo was a utility player, usually playing in defensive roles, with more than 200 games for Lazio
and Lucidio, another keeper, played for Juve and Lazio (amassing more than 500 Serie A games under his belt) as well as getting 9 caps for Italy

what a beautiful story, but the fact the youngest brother was called Primo ('the first' in Italian) and had number V sends me

 

[JJ12]

The Bender brothers were tidy for a while

 

[Murder on Zidane's Floor]

Lionel and Matias Messi

 

[stefan92]

I missed this post earlier and this is really unusual but also smells of nepotism at this stage the father at charge, imagine the family dynamics

Definitely interesting. But generally seems to work fine, the kids earned their minutes and Pal claims he is even more critical of them than of his other players. Considering that they all earned caps for the (youth) national teams of Germany/Hungary they are not to bad anyway.

 

[Moriarty]

Bobby and Jack Charlton easily, cmon WC winners

Matt Busby tried to sign Jack from Leeds but Don Revie wouldn't sell at any price.

 

[Snow]

Bjarni, Jóhannes Karl, Þórður Guðjónsson and Björn Bergmann Sigurðsson are 4 brothers who all played for the national team. Not the best football wise but I don't know if any other country has had more brothers in one team.

 

[BootsyCollins]

Eric Cantona had a brother called Joel who played for many clubs including Peterborough and Stockport before finishing his career at Marsielle

Dont forget their cousin, Sacha Opinel.

 

[Fitchett]

Allan Clarke of Leeds had several brothers who were professionals, as did former city player Clive Allen. Those two were both England internationals.

 

[JarkiJarko]

Hoeneß, Rummenigge, Förster, Allofs, Walter

Germany had some iconic footballing brothers.

 

[brunoag4]

Laudrup brothers

 

[Isotope]

Smalling and Jones.

 

[ayushreddevil9]

Smalling and Jones.

Came here to post exactly this

 

[Malkovich]

Does Mazinho have a brother named Thiago or you meant Rafael aka Rafinha?

read my comment again

 

[JPRouve]

read my comment again

My bad.

 

[Yagami]

Andy and Ashley Cole were great. Their brother Carlton was alright but not in the same league.

 

[IRN-BRUno]

Harry and Laurence Maguire

 

[Krny]

The 20+ McGinn brothers. The McPoyles of football. Eyebrow and all

 

[kaiser1]

De Boer. Ronald and Frank
Inzaghi

 

[kaiser1]

Their son Ronaldinho also deserves a mention.

speaking of sons - has there ever been a top level game to feature a father and a son on the same pitch? I know there’s talk about LeBron possibly facing his son in the NBA next season, but can’t think of such situation in football. It’s quite difficult technically, but Sterling had his first daughter before turning 18, so in theory - if not for the gender - they could face each other in the same game…

I heard Eidur Gudjonsen and his dad played a game together for the National team

 

[utdalltheway]

Rafael & Fabio da Silva, our very own Man Utd twins..

 

[Berbaclass]

The Mannings

 

[Malkovich]

Ronaldinho and Assis

 

[djembatheking]

Ian Rush and John Aldridge.

 

[SoCross]

Will and Michael Keane.

 

[terraloo]

Ron and Alan Harris
John& Clive Charles
Mark & Clive Chamberlain
Nat & Trevah Chalobah

 

[simplyared]

Sir Bobby and Big Jack - obvious choice
Michael and Bryan Laudrup - 2nd choice

 

[horsechoker]

Now can we do the best footballing brothels?

 

[Jamesh]

Ask Wayne aka Wazza.

 

[Jamesh]

No one mentioned David & Ian Brightwell for City in the 90s?

 

[KeanoMagicHat]

I’d have Charltons over the Laudrups. Jack Charlton is a bit underrated by some, he won Footballer of the Year in 1967 and was in PFA team of the century. Then Bobby is one of the greatest ever.

Michael was magnificent but Bobby > Michael Laudrup and while Brian and Jack can’t be easily compared but probably not much in it.

 

[Red Star One]

Now can we do the best footballing brothels?

That would be the Giggses?

 

[kaku06]

Hang on, how can you forget about Pogba brothers? One is a World Cup winner and other one is world class in other stuff like robbery, blackmailing and there is a third one too.

 

[kaku06]

Altintop brothers. Made me believe in witchcraft when I saw the same player playing for two different teams in the same league at the same time.

 

[Nani Nana]

The Milinkovic Savic bros are not too shabby

 

[Fully Fledged]

Bobby and Jack Charlton easily, cmon WC winners

Yep

 

[Rossa]

Probably mentioned, but the Laudrup brothers?

 

[Ghirahim]

Frank and Ronald de Boer were great.

 

[Redplane]

Frank and Ronald de Boer were great.

/Thread as far as I'm concerned, even E de Boer was half decent - followed closely by the Laudrup bros.