Steven Ogrizovic was born on 12 September 1957 and is an English football coach, former professional footballer and cricketer.
13 Facts About Steve Ogrizovic
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Between 1983 and 1984, Ogrizovic played cricket for Shropshire as a right-arm medium-fast bowler.
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Steve Ogrizovic completed four games for the club, taking five wickets.
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Steve Ogrizovic started his professional career at Chesterfield before moving to Liverpool.
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Steve Ogrizovic managed a few more team appearances before moving to Shrewsbury Town.
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Steve Ogrizovic was selected to play for the Football League vs The Rest of the World at Wembley in 1987.
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Steve Ogrizovic is one of four players to have played top-flight football in four different decades, along with Peter Shilton, John Lukic and Sir Stanley Matthews and holds the club record of 209 consecutive League appearances for a Coventry City player, from August 1984 to September 1989.
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Steve Ogrizovic was once considered to be selected for the Yugoslavian national side, in the late eighties, but he declined the offer.
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Steve Ogrizovic was Coventry City's goalkeeping coach from 2008 to 2019.
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Steve Ogrizovic is the son of Nikola Steve Ogrizovic, a Yugoslav prisoner of war in Italy during World War II, who sought refuge in the United Kingdom after being liberated by British troops.
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Steve Ogrizovic served both as a Police Cadet and as a Police Officer at Mansfield Police Station in Nottinghamshire prior to signing as a professional footballer.
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In 2003 Steve Ogrizovic was the subject of a hoax that said that he had been kidnapped in Kazakhstan and an online petition was set up to campaign to get him released.
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Steve Ogrizovic was a cricketer, reaching Minor Counties level as a medium-fast bowler.