Can anyone name a team that has taking a freefall and collapesed and were once great but now suck? Club or Country

Can anyone beat Mine El Salvador, World Cups 70 & 80 2 Concacaf nations cups players in spain, germany and italy and now they get blown out aginst panama and can't even score goals, so if you can beat that i would like to see you try?

Leeds United no doubt...
2001(I believe) they were in the semi's of the CL now in the championship.

-leeds
-Napoli
-Fiorentina

And dirty Leeds should be down even further, that diving **** David Healy should have his legs broken next time we play him.

Flamengo. 5 times brazilian Série A champions, 2 intercontinental titles (I guess), I-don't-know-how-many Libertadores, the team with more supporters in Brazil, Zico and many other players...

Now, fighting to get away from relegation.

Salgueiros and Farense that played both in the UEFA Cup during the 90's are in the third and fourth division now respectively and both in relegation places and in bankrupcy.

Here in Brazil there are many...

Bangu - Runners-up in 1985 brazilian championship(and they deserved to win) and a state champion here. Today is at the Rio's second division.
America-RJ - Once a fomous and popular team over Brazil in the 80's, today suffers to keep at Rio's state league 1st division.
Bragantino - São Paulo State champion in 1990 and brazilian runners-up in 1991. Today an average team of third division.
União São João de Araras - If I'm not wrong, it's a state champion in Sao Paulo. Played two years in first division, always on the botton of the table. Today a weak team of third divison.
Portuguesa-SP(Lusa) - One of most popular team of São Paulo. Runners-up at 1996 brazilian championship and accumulate some state championships. Today an average team on second Division.
Sport Recife - Brazilian champions in 87. Now in the same situation of Portuguesa(how sad:( )
Botafogo-SP - They played two years at first divison, and now I don't know where are they...:confused:

Gremio - World Champions, won the first division twice and won many times Copa do Brasil. They will play the second division next year...

right now, parma

its really sad to see them in the relegation zone, and they will probably have to sell more player and it doesnt look good

Rosenborg!they went from being the best team in scandinavia to be one of the worst!
That happend during one year!
They won the league in Norway,in the last game.usally they have won it by mid season!
:rolleyes:

Originally posted by Punkt
Salgueiros and Farense that played both in the UEFA Cup during the 90's are in the third and fourth division now respectively and both in relegation places and in bankrupcy.

yep... Tirsense also dropped form the 1st league to te 4th division in... 4 years... now that's a record...

Celta de Vigo.

They finished 4th last season in Spain and they are now in Second Division. They are also doing bad in second divison.

Could Benfica be applied in this case? :S

Originally posted by 3m1n3m
Could Benfica be applied in this case? :S
I don't know maybe if they keep it up

Hungary they were one of the best in the past but now they are not the same

Leeds Champions League semis one year relagetd the next

Originally posted by hermolt
And dirty Leeds should be down even further, that diving **** David Healy should have his legs broken next time we play him.
:D (Y)


I don't think anyone mentioned Sheffield Wednesday or Wimbledon?

Originally posted by Bruno_FJV
Here in Brazil there are many...

Portuguesa-SP(Lusa) - One of most popular team of São Paulo. Runners-up at 1996 brazilian championship and accumulate some state championships. Today an average team on second Division.


Lusa? A popular team?!?! They cant put more than 1000 people in their stadium lol! Anyway, gotta agree about the rest. If you want, you can put Guarani in that list aswell, once Brazilian Champions, now we're down to 2nd division. Not to mention it's our 3rd relagation in 3-4 years (Paulista 2001, Rio-SP 2002, Brasileirão 2004). We are only on the 1st Division at Paulista because they "turned the table" in our favour (virada de mesa).

Originally posted by hanek45
Celta de Vigo.

They finished 4th last season in Spain and they are now in Second Division. They are also doing bad in second divison.

They are tied for 7th and only 5 points shy of the promotion spots, i wouldn't say that is bad.

Como was in Serie A 2 seasons ago

and they got relegated from serie a, the following year they were relegated from serie b

:o


and i think financial problems put them down even further

What about Borussia Dortmund??

League winners and in the Champions League a season or two ago.

Then they turned into a UEFA Cup team.

Now they arent the power they used to be. Sad really, i liked them before. I still do, just they dont have that same appeal.

financial problems killed these teams, lol

inter? :confused:

there just financially stupid

Originally posted by claupastore
inter? :confused:

Inter just can't win but hey they don't lose either

Probley MK Dons.

And honestly, I hope they keep going down.

Originally posted by Bobby
Probley MK Dons.

And honestly, I hope they keep going down.

I wholeheartedly agree. I hope the franchise dies a slow, horrible, painful death, all the while sliding all the way down to the Buckinghamshire Combination, or whatever the lowest division is called.

Originally posted by Bobby
Probley MK Dons.

And honestly, I hope they keep going down.
they were never a big club to start off with , it was a miracle they did as well as they did , right now they are back where they belong.

The El Salvador is a good one but that's 25 years ago! 70 and 80 until today is a long time. So I would consider it a slow decline rather than a freefall.

But in the same category as El Salvador I would put Hungary, like Atlas said, and also Uruguay. Uruguay won the World Cup in the 50s! and have disappeared in the past decades.
Romania since 1994 has not been very strong... same for Scotland.

Ok but consider that also El Salvador was decent in the 90's with a team that was close to WC 94 and 98 with 4 of the players All-stars in MLS in Cerritos, Cienfuegos, Diaz-Arce, and Zarco Rodriguez

Originally posted by mufc_daddy
What about Borussia Dortmund??

League winners and in the Champions League a season or two ago.

Then they turned into a UEFA Cup team.

We're not even a UEFA Cup calibre team ... fighting for relegation is more accurate. This seasons' team mainly consists of youngsters from the lower division and old scrubs.

Scotland - Ally Mccoist = The crap scotland we see today:(

FC Kosice -- won a couple of Slovakian championships, qualified for the Champions League a couple of years ago, got relegated from the first division, and now they don't exist anymore.

What happened with Dortmund?


Finalcial problems...?

Yeah, $120+ million euros in-debt.

ouch!....120 euros....i got some money from selling lemonade...if it helps:( .....OR they can sell Rosicky and Metzler to Madrid for 60 euros each:D ;)

Metze won't go.
He love Dortmund like me.:mrpimp:

Originally posted by ronnifan9
ouch!....120 euros....i got some money from selling lemonade...if it helps
geez that was a bag joke, Scottish Football used to be good, kinda but now its pretty pish:(

:mrpimp:

Dortmund are sh!t

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I think Wimbledon.

Originally posted by hanek45
Celta de Vigo.

They finished 4th last season in Spain and they are now in Second Division. They are also doing bad in second divison.
hehehe...that really doesn't make sense, does it?

like Punkt mentioned on Page 1... Salgueiros

they we're tough competitors in the Portufguese first league, they'd even beat porto, benfica and sporting once in a while and go to european competitions. They we're the third best team in Oporto

then... relegated to 2nd division

then... relegated to 2nd division B for financial problems

now at 2nd B:

17 matches
won: 0
draw: 0
lost: 17

goals scored: 6

goals conceded: ......63!

The story of two Indonesian teams :
- Bandung Raya : promoted to the premiere division, won it, financial problems suddenly emerged a season later, out of sponsors, bankrupt, dead . . .
- PSIS : promoted to the premiere division, won it, the next season after even without financial problems or changes in the last year`s winning squad, played the ****test football ever on this planet, ended up relegated without having a single win at all . . .

Originally posted by Foxz
how do u get sig or pictures on with the writing
you made about 10 posts in like 10 minutes and you stole my avatar you fu*kin idiot:kader:

Parma
Gremio
flamengo
leeds
celta vigo

ROMA

and the reason of almost all those falls is unreasoned financial policy

Ayr United - For the 2000/2001 season we came second in Scottish Division One by a point and in 2001/2002 we made the CIS Cup Final beating Stranraer 4-0, Inverness 5-1, Kilmarnock 5-4 on penalties and 1-0 against Hibernian in the Semi-Final and got beat 4-0 by Rangers in the final.
Season 2002/2003 we finished mid-table in the Scottish Division One and had managed just a 1-0 defeat at home to Rangers in the cup and should have beat them.
In Season 2003/2004 Ayr were relegated. :kader:

Arsenal.
































:rolleyes:

France :(

Liverpool.

Sydney FC

Originally posted by SlowSilver
Liverpool.

Real Madrid.

St Johnstone, 1999 we were in the scottish cup final, 3rd in the lesgue, drew 3-3 with monaco in the UEFA cup in 2000, now 5th in division 1

Bristol City managed to get relegated in three consecutive seasons going from the old division one to division 4, I think another team did it aswell can't remember who.

Is there anything worse than Madrid last year?

2 months to go and they are first by 8 points, in the final of the Cup, and in the quarters of the CL

2 months later they end in 4th place winning 1 match and losing out in all competitions.


that and 1982 Brazilian national team:kader:

Originally posted by SuRFy
Sydney FC

hah, lol, i hate all the A league teams...
sorry, i love Australia but i hate Australian soccer/football and their AFL, really,and the Australian league, they copy the K and J league name, thye A LEAGUE! you so know it, that they wanna be part of the AZN confed.

Wow all those teams are pretty bad. I think the worst for the Greek league is Larissa which won the Greek league in 1988 and got relagated 3 years later. They are currently in the B league and looking to move up.

right now the B league is really exciting.

Kastoria
Nike Bolou
Larisa
Paniliakos
Panserraikos

all are in contention for a promotion to the Alpha National League next year. Only 3 will get the chance however. The 1st place team is automatically promoted from the B league while the 2nd and 3rd place teams will play the 14th and 15th placed teams. So if it were to happen now it would look like this

Relageted-Ergotelis, Promoted Panserraikos or Nike Bolou (tied for 1st)

playoff matches

Kastoria-Aris
Paniliakos-Apollon Kalamarias

Rotor Volgograd
in 1995 they knocked Manchester United out of the UEFA Cup and also there has grown up Veretennikov, which scored more than 100 goals in Russia Premierleague. and now they are relegated:(

Peru

hell of a team they had before 1990s it was pretty much Alianzas limas starting line up in the national team.. but after that tragic plane accident things seem to go down , but now they seem to be pushing up with skillfull youngsters.

Inter is definately below it's true potential. But nowhere as bad as Parma. These guys can actually be relegated and that would simply be shocking. The team may have suffere some financial setbacks but they still have the likes of Gilardino, Frey, Marchionni, Morfeo, and Inter's own Potenza.

They should atleast be a midtable club but they are in the relegation zone. If they go down then it will be a mad scramble to pickup the big talents from that squad.

Fiorentina. Although that was due to the financial situation. They did go from seria A to seria Z or something like that...

Liverpool! :rofl:

Originally posted by dysfunctional
hah, lol, i hate all the A league teams...
sorry, i love Australia but i hate Australian soccer/football and their AFL, really,and the Australian league, they copy the K and J league name, thye A LEAGUE! you so know it, that they wanna be part of the AZN confed.

yeah well done. unless you are mentally retarded you arent even from australia.

Originally posted by fh_29
Liverpool! :rofl:

dude whats your problem with Liverpool?
i'm strting to belive that you did get raped by a Liverpool fan
:kader:

Real Madrid of course:D

Originally posted by celtic_bhoy
yeah well done. unless you are mentally retarded you arent even from australia.

i love the rugby team, but i hate the football team thanx and I'm not retarted, so take that back now!

Originally posted by celtic_bhoy
yeah well done. unless you are mentally retarded you arent even from australia.
I'm not mental thanx, and i am from Australia dude, I love the rugby team, gregon rox but i hate the football team i hate kewell, even though i hate teh team bresciano is kool, and Emmo so I'm not retarded

Inter as underachievers. :( :(

Originally posted by dysfunctional
I'm not mental thanx, and i am from Australia dude, I love the rugby team, gregon rox but i hate the football team i hate kewell, even though i hate teh team bresciano is kool, and Emmo so I'm not retarded

Don't forget about Ponting and his men ! (H)

Liverpool has also made a big drop. Won the most english premiership titles but are now not capable of getting european football.

I think Newcastle are big underachievers, they were fifth last year and were in final stages of the Uefa Cup and now their 13th place in the leauge and not playing as good as they can

Originally posted by vitu
Real Madrid of course:D

?

- Real Madrid are in 1/8 finals of Champions League

- Real Madrid are in 1/8 finals of Spanish Cup (Copa del Rey)

- If Real Madrid beat Real Sociedad will be 2nd in La Liga, not very bad knowing Barça is 1st, doing the best season of his story.

owned !

If Juventus don't respect R.Madrid they will lose for sure.

Originally posted by Crusad3r
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- Real Madrid are in 1/8 finals of Champions League

- Real Madrid are in 1/8 finals of Spanish Cup (Copa del Rey)

- If Real Madrid beat Real Sociedad will be 2nd in La Liga, not very bad knowing Barça is 1st, doing the best season of his story.

owned !

If Juventus don't respect R.Madrid they will lose for sure.

very well said! :)

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