MetroStars who Succeeded Outside of New York

We're so glad to be of service.

 

Why are you trying to kill me? What the hell did I ever do to you?

Why didn't you just print this in book form - it's probably more pages than the Bible at this point.

 

Thornton and Z-Man definitely, but Moreno and Razov just happened to suck for the limited periods they were here. They were good before Metro, they were good after Metro.

If I had to put together a top five:

1. Thornton - we let go for free a GK who would still be our #1, nine years later.
2. Tony Meola - had his career-making MVP season the year after we traded him.
3. Ricardo Clark - the guy's a beast now, fully recovered from his 2nd-year injuries.
4. Zavagnin - the most inexplicable head-shaking "WTF?" circumstance of instant talent improvement ever, in any country, in any sport. I've heard people say "I can't believe we let Zavagnin go!", but that's just revisionist history. The guy sucked here. The day he walked on to the field in a Nats jersey, my head exploded.
5. Brad Davis - Definitely deserved more time here. If I remember correctly, this trade for Dallas's first-rounder turned into Mike Magee. No offense to Magee, but wouldn't you rather have Davis right now?

 

You can say that Zach Thornton & Kerry Zavagnin have Successful Careers out side the Metros, but Moreno never was a Metros "de corazon" and Tim Regan & Ante Razov after two midiocre couple games, calling that a success is joke

 

For conciseness reasons, this really should have been "MetroStars who didn't Succeed Outside of New York", which would have been only slightly shorter than the pamphlet on "Famous Jewish Athletes" [/obscure "Airplane" joke]

 

Didn't we have a young forward that we didn't play early on who ended up going to England after us and playing very well there? This was a few years ago.

 

it's not obscure

 

Just wanted to cover my bases. I know there's a few people on here who have no sense of humor whatsoever.

 

Did Zavagnin ever play anything but right back for the Metros? That's the problem right there. He never got played in the middle.

 

You may be thinking of Shaun Bartlett, who couldn't get significant playing time here but went to FC Zurich and is now starting (?) at Charlton.

 

I couldn't tell you. I, like most other people, was too busy yelling "you suck, Zavagnin" to pay attention to the exact position at which he was sucking.

 

Bingo.

 

I thought it was that he was not playing in his preferred position -- that he wanted to be a forward and the team wanted him at center mid.

 

A few more for the list, maybe, Mark Chung, although he never really lit the world on fire in Colorado, he was still one of the leagues more consistant, solid players. D Hernendez, turned into a tough D-mid after being traded to the Revs, even played in Mexican league. T. Howard, thought not currently starting has won the FA Cup and Goalkeeper of the year award in England with the best yet to come. Any others?

 

Mark Chung
Andy Williams

 

If the author of the article can include Regan and Razov as three-game "successes", then I'll add Cornell Glen.

 

Almost every MLS team forum has had a similar thread. The fact is, 99% of former Metros either continued sucking, actually got worse (Mathis) or just disappeared off the face of the earth (Rodrigo Faria anybody?).

 

i dunno...Mr. Clean seems to be doing pretty good after leaving the Metros

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