title: C# deserialize multiple JSON collections into a single List<T>
body: <p>I fetch a collection of collections of the same object from a web api.
  I would then like to deserialize the JSON into a single List</p>
  
  <p>The JSON is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "Liverpool": [
      {
        "playerId": "LIV01",
        "name": "Adam Llana",
        "position": "Midfielder"
      },
      {
        "playerId": "LIV02",
        "name": "Daniel Sturridge",
        "position": "Forward"
      }
    ],
    "ManchesterUnited": [
      {
        "playerId": "MNU01",
        "name": "Daley Blind",
        "position": "Defender"
      },
      {
        "playerId": "MNU02",
        "name": "Romelu Lukaku",
        "position": "Forward"
      }
    ],
    "Arsenal": [
      {
        "playerId": "ARS01",
        "name": "Petr Cech",
        "position": "Goalkeeper"
      },
      {
        "playerId": "ARS02",
        "name": "Santi Cazorla",
        "position": "Midfielder"
      }
    ]
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What I could like to be able to do is the following as I am not interested in the collection names:</p>
  
  <pre><code>public class Player
  {
      public string playerId { get; set; }
      public string name { get; set; }
      public string position { get; set; }
  }
  
  List&lt;Player&gt; cards = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject&lt;List&lt;Player&gt;&gt;(jsonContent);      
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This does not work and produces an error.</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Cannot deserialize the current JSON object (e.g. {\"name\":\"value\"})
    into type 'System.Collections.Generic.List`1[Player]' because the type
    requires a JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) to deserialize correctly. To fix
    this error either change the JSON to a JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) or
    change the deserialized type so that it is a normal .NET type (e.g.
    not a primitive type like integer, not a collection type like an array
    or List) that can be deserialized from a JSON object.
    JsonObjectAttribute can also be added to the type to force it to
    deserialize from a JSON object.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Is there any way to accomplish this using Newtonsoft.Json?</p>