Wow, I never heard of these guys. Brandon Prideaux, always one of my favorites. But like Namoff, he was a regular starter for years here and with other teams - can't be one of our least talented. And Llamosa played in the 2002 world cup (the year we were good). I can't see him being least talented.
haha, I have no idea why I typed David instead of Danny - I was obviously too worried about how to spell his last name Prideaux and Namoff fall into the same category for me - good, solid, extremely reliable players, always in good position - with no flash and low paychecks. Tony Sanneh may be the most over-rated soccer player in US history, but I know that's mostly just my opinion. I can't help how wrong most of you are about him
Er, I was answering this question (cut/pasted) from FB: My 3-way tie for actual least talented DC player ever: Tony Sanneh Jay Nolly Danny Szetella Well, I was thinking DC (Dips players). Kenny Mokgojoa was known as the African race horse; I gave Gary Darrell the moniker, horse's ass.
I guess you didn't watch the US-Germany match in the 2002 World Cup quarterfinals? He was the best player we had on the pitch. Of course, it helped that he'd been playing in the Bundesliga for three years before that. He wasn't a superstar by any means; but "most over-rated"?
that's awesome, maybe he can teach them how to win an NCAA tournament game. Love that school. They live to break my heart.
He came from out of nowhere (an assistant coach somewhere, IIRC), scored 15 goals in 47 appearances, and then seemed to disappear.
AJ Wood? Jamil Walker? Craig Ziadie? No, definitely Mario Gori. If Eddie Money and an abused terrier procreated....
francis doe, anyone? i remember one match where he had a free header from about three yards, and he headed straight down into the pitch and it actually bounced over the bar... from three yards... seemed to be popular for the atrocious middle-part hairdo...
For me, it's Gros. What he lacked in skills, he made up with his third lung. That guy would never stop running up nad down the wings!!!
How is it nobody has mentioned Brian Kamler? I mean, jouneyman would be the best adjective I would use to describe his playing career, but I've never hear anybody say anything but the best things about him. Super nice when he signed autographs for and met my kids. what did he do, a Mickey Mouse thing with his autograph, I think?
George Mason, or was it Rutgers? Anyway, Rammel will always be, in my mind, an example of amazement. I still can't recall any player so obviously untalented, but yet at the same time putting away goals at an astonishing rate in a short period of time. He scored with every part of his body, his ass, his face, his shoulder, his chest and his specialty, the shin. If he wrote a book about that part of his life, I'd read it. Man I hated Steve Rammel. For that reason, I can't consider him "popular", but maybe he was...
I was in a hotel bar in Kenya for that game. Even the Kenyans around me who had money on Germany were noticing 'that guy for America' who I proudly said played for my club in DC. I got a few Tuskers bought for me because of him!
When folks talk about some of United's greatest strikers, I always bring up Rammel - sometimes you just really need to score an ugly goal as a team - you just NEED TO. No-one has scored more ugly goals for DCU than Steve Rammel has. He has to be pushing 60, I bet he could still get a goal bouncing off his back or something. Like that DeRo goal Saturday night. Pontius flat missed it with his head. Rammel would have been tripped by a Houston player near the back post and the ball would have went in off his ass as he went tumbling, and it would have looked like he did it on purpose We could have really used Rammel 2.0 in 2010 when we couldn't seem to buy a goal.
As I said earlier, I didn't realize we were having an unpopularity contest. I was thinking in terms of piano players versus piano movers. Those guys are piano movers. Elegant and popular piano movers.
He went to Rutgers and was the same way there (Gros also went to Rutgers and was the same way there! ) But, I am curious, how can you hate someone who scores garbage goals?
I remember two statistics for Rammel - (1) In less than a season with DC United he still lead the league in Game Winning Goals - (2) And he was the first player to score a Hat Trick
I would vote for Shawn Medved -- he wasn't much but he scored the goal in the 82nd minute of a monsoon to give us the most improbable of ties in the first MLS Cup. Was he popular? Not as much as he should be. But no, he wasn't exactly talented. I might also cast a vote for George Gelnovatch, who actually did have his odd bit of popularity for a short while.
I couldn't disagree more, at least with regard to Llamosa. I would rank Carlos Llamosa as one of the most talented defenders our team and the league have known -- he was every bit the equal of Goose and Eddie Pope (and all three were a cut above Ryan Nelsen during Nelsen's tenure with us). And I know for a fact that Bruce Arena thinks so, because I have discussed this topic with him.
Prideaux is my choice. I liked him a lot, especially the way he tore into his fried chicken at the Chesapeake House on the way back from a 4-1 butt kicking of TFKAM, but man, I forgot how untalented he really was. Did he ever score an MLS goal? And it's not like he didn't play a lot, either. I just don't remember his scoring a goal for any team.
It probably had something to do with thinking to myself that this guy cant be good enough to be on fhis team... this is thebest we could do? It hurt my brain.