Name: Ulises Hernán de la Cruz Bernardo DOB: 08/02/74 (age 39) POB: Piquiucho, Carchi, Ecuador Position: Right back/midfield Clubs: Deportivo Quito, Barcelona S.C, Aucas, LDU Quito, Cruzeiro, Hibernian, Aston Villa, Reading, Birmingham City International Caps: 101 In football, it is very rare that a player be signed to a club for a substantial fee, play […]
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Name: Francisco Javier Sánchez Broto DOB: 25/08/71 POB: Barcelona, Spain Position: Goalkeeper Clubs: Zaragoza B, Zaragoza, Villarreal, Castellón, Málaga, Airdrieonians, Livingston, Celtic, Murcia, Getafe, Hércules International Caps: 2 (Spain U21) Unknown when he arrived on these shores the goalkeeper soon made a name for himself with a series of stunning saves. There was no doubting […]
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Full name: Albert Junior Hillyard Andrew Mendes DOB: 15/09/76 POB: Balham, England Position: Striker, Winger Clubs: Chelsea, St Mirren, Carlisle Utd, Dunfermline Ath, St Mirren, Mansfield, Huddersfield, Northampton, Grimsby, Notts County, Lincoln City, Stevenage, Aldershot, Ayr United. International Caps: 9 (Montserrat) The archetypal cult hero: neither his talent nor his application were particularly noteworthy, but […]
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Full name: Claudio Reyna DOB: 20/07/73 POB: Livingston, New Jersey, United States Position: Centre midfield, right back Clubs: Bayer Leverkusen, VfL Wolfsburg, Rangers, Sunderland, Manchester City, New York Red Bulls International caps: 111 The wealth of talent that Rangers possessed during the Dick Advocaat era makes the Scottish career of Claudio Reyna somewhat of an afterthought. […]
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Name: Nick Robert Dasovic DOB: 05/12/68 POB: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Position: Centre Midfield Clubs: Dinamo Zagreb, North York Rockets, Croatia Zagreb, Montreal Impact, Vancouver 86ers, Stade Briochin, Vancouver 86ers, Trelleborgs FF, St. Johnstone, Vancouver Whitecaps 81 (2) International caps: 62 The Canadian may have been the subject of many a witticism due […]
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Name: Mark George Perry DOB: 07/02/71 POB: Aberdeen Position: Right back, Centre back Clubs: Dundee United, Aberdeen, Ross County, Peterhead. The born and bred Aberdeen fan learnt his trade in the confines of Highland league football with Cove Rangers when Jim McLean became aware of his talent and invited him to join his favoured club’s […]
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Name: Stanislav Varga DOB: 08/10/72 POB: Lipany, Czechoslovakia Position: Centre-back Clubs: 1. FC Tatran Prešov, Slovan Bratislava, Sunderland, West Bromich Albion, Celtic, Burnley International caps: 54 (for Slovakia) Stan Varga, perhaps more than any other player, epitomised Celtic during the Martin O’Neill era. His career reached new heights after a difficult period and saw his […]
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Name: Eoin Jess DOB: 13/12/70 POB: Portsoy Position: Midfielder, Forward Clubs: Aberdeen, Coventry City, Bradford City, Nottingham Forest, Northampton Town. International caps: 18 Today the emerging talent of Eoin Jess would readily be described as a ‘classic number 10’, a second striker or a trequartista. Back then he was just a prodigious young attacker […]
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Name: Nathan Peter Lowndes DOB: 02/07/77 POB: Salford, England Position: Centre Forward Clubs: Leeds United, Watford, St. Johnstone, Livingston, Rotherham United, Plymouth Argyle, Port Vale, Chester City. The 1998/99 St Johnstone side was one of the strangest success stories in Scottish football over the last 20 years. The club, attracting some of the smallest crowds in the league, defied the odds to finish the season sitting […]
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Name: Darren Richard Lorenzo Beckford DOB: 12/06/67 POB: Manchester, England Position: Striker Clubs: Manchester City, Bury, Port Vale, Norwich, Oldham, Hearts, Preston, Fulham, Walsall, Rushden and Diamonds, Southport, Total Network Solutions, Bury. Seventeen years on, the short spell of Darren Beckford is still fondly remembered by those Hearts fans who witnessed it. He was only […]
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