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A team of players from your country who never played club football there?

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Klobb

Starting XI
Dazmania said:
The only English player i can think of would be Owen Hargreaves...
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Well, are we talking citizenship format or where they were born, wasn't he born in C-eh?-n-eh?-d-eh?..(he played for Calgary Foothills FC in that case)..
 
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Punkt

Fan Favourite
portuguese player i only see Roberto Pinto from Bielefeld. he was born in Germany but has portuguese nationality. and never played here.

Maybe Nélson Ferreira from Thun never played here too. not sure though
 
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Psyatika

Reserve Team
Klobb said:
Well, are we talking citizenship format or where they were born, wasn't he born in C-eh?-n-eh?-d-eh?..(he played for Calgary Foothills FC in that case)..
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Well, he's only eligible to play for the English national team, so he has to count regardless of his place of birth.
 
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jackie4

Starting XI
Klobb said:
Well, are we talking citizenship format or where they were born, wasn't he born in C-eh?-n-eh?-d-eh?..(he played for Calgary Foothills FC in that case)..
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didn't you read the name of the thread?

we are talking about players who played for a country but NEVER played club football there.

Let me give you an example. George Best never played for a Northern Irish club!
 
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Kibe Kru

Starting XI
Elber had never played professional football in Brazil until his recently move to Cruzeiro... can't think of any others right now...
 
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10Ruud

Starting XI
Unfortunatly I can't think of one guy from here who hasn't played in the Country first...sadly most of them never play anywhere else.
 
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Bobby

The Legend
Sharlie Joseph for Grenada, played his whole career for American teams.

Bobo Balde has never played for a team in Guinea.
 
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dsh

Youth Team
Voltaic Borusse said:
Kasey Keller.
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Keller played professionally in the US in 1990, in the Western Soccer League.

Claudio Reyna, on the other hand, has only played in the US during college.
 
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Klobb

Starting XI
Carlos*ie4 said:
didn't you read the name of the thread?

we are talking about players who played for a country but NEVER played club football there.

Let me give you an example. George Best never played for a Northern Irish club!
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mm yeh i was getting a tad bit technical..
 
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jackie4

Starting XI
shokz said:
Ireland must be able to piss this one.
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sure, already made that point too. Wales, NI and the Republic of Ireland will skate through this.

I definitely think there are plenty of others who can do it though.

Australia maybe? USA? Finland?
 
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Fernandez

Team Captain
Plenty of African countries might also skate through this. I believe Mahamadou Diarra hasn't played in Mali before. Momo Sissoko as well although he was born in France.
 
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Glorious

Starting XI
Claudio Reyna is one isn't he?

i mean he has not played in the MLS or equivalent before MLS?


Harry Kewell and Lucas Neill are 2 also who have never played in the old NSL (as it was) and obviously the A-League.

they are the only 2 in the Australian squad i am sure that have not played in any top league in Australia NSL or A-League.
 
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3m1n3m

Senior Squad
Owen Hargreaves fits in the criteria, doesn't he?

And Pauleta for Portugal. He did play in União Micaelense and Estoril, but they were in the third division. From Estoril he jumped to Salamanca when they were in the Spanish Seconda Division. And we all know the rest of the story :p
 
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Eagle Winged

Youth Team
NGAFOOTBALLKING said:
Shola Ameobi
Carlton Cole
Nedum Onuoha

thats alll i kno
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None of those players are Nigerian. For goodness sake, just accept it. Nigerian name or heritage doesnt equate to Nigerian.
 
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NGAFOOTBALLKING

Senior Squad
Eagle Winged said:
None of those players are Nigerian. For goodness sake, just accept it. Nigerian name or heritage doesnt equate to Nigerian.
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If your Parents are Nigerian arent you nigerian (C)
it doesnt matter how much u tell yourself they are nigerians simple!
 
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jackie4

Starting XI
For the purposes of this thread, you are a national of the country you repesented at football.

So for example, Ray Houghton isn't Scottish on this thread. He is from the Republic of Ireland!
 
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dobrin1980

Reserve Team
Valeri Bojinov never played for bulgarian football club...he started his career with Lecce and now he's in Fiorentina
 
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