Review: The lost talents thread: Players who did not realize their potential

your post reminds of how so many ex German youth Internationals end up as has beens players.

sometimes I feel like players who either barely played for Germany youth NT or only 1 tournament do better than the ones who play a lot.


completely forget about Thy, that's another play who's career is also unimpressive. I think Germany has a big problem when it comes to producing strikers that 1)Pan Out 2) aren't injury prone. I do think 98-onwards has a lot of promise but they are just prospects.

 

damn, both Fischer and Neumann are currently 29 year old players who are in RL.......and Fischer hasn't played 1 game this season....

Fischer and Thy also won U17 Euro top scorers. Just shows how much U17 NT is the level that matters the littlest when it comes to pro careers. Kinda why I'm iffy about how players do in U17 German league, U19 is a better indicator.

but seriously what you posted in the youth thread is very true about how our players get injured/destroyed very easily. OBM for example comes back from an ankle injury missing 2 matches only to get injured again in the ankle and needing surgery and now is out for like half a year. I mean, really? 2 injuries in a span of a month and looks like he might have been rushed too. While Platte comes back only get injured again in training and came back today but won't play anywhere near full games until next year. F.Muller a GK seems to have tons of injury issues this season, Kuntz tried over and over to nominate him but everytime he gets injured again, hasn't played for awhile.....

 

some more names.
-Malik Fathi, was last in Spanish 4th division, basically RL. Before retiring.
-Anis Ben-Hatira (currently no club)
-Sebastian Boenisch (currently no club)

 

also does Philipp Hofmann deserve to be on this thread. He's failed but was he ever a talent to begin with?

Gaudino, Scholl, and Kurt are all they really talents?

 

I think Gaudino and Kurt were both ruined by Bayern.

Kurt also had some injury issues and also started to develop unprofessionalism issues and believe at some point started to gain weight too when at Hertha. Seems like everything crashed after he left Gladbach.

 

not that I rate them but looking back at U17 Fritz Walter medals for 97 group
97 Gold Gimber, who seems to not have impressed in 2BL
97 Silver Bektic played nothing but RL
97 Bronze Konigsmann seems to be on special leave and played 0 matches this season

in all honesty one can find tons of not successful Fritz Walter medal players especially in the 1st 10 years of the awards.

 

It's difficult because there are no GK substitution and more and more clubs want experience vs giving chances. They also can play well into their mid-30s. Chances seem to mostly come from injuries. poor form, some rotations or if you #1 transfers. Pretty much it.

on top of that, clubs do looks at non Germans too. So that just makes it even more tough to breakthrough when there is so much competition for the hardest spot to breakthrough from XI.

Rakovsky has been clubless 3 times in his career, that's not great and even worse his next career stop is Lahti in the Finnish league...Such a crash and burn for someone who's actually managed to play 1BL and 2BL. Looks he like he never settled anywhere.

 

yeah he's amounted to nothing soon to be Beyreuther's new teammate.

Itter never even made it past 3rd Liga, soon to be 24 and playing in RL, yikes.

 

Good for him. I always liked the kid and though he should have gone to SA in 2010 over Trot.

 

Marin did go to the 2010 WC.

Low chose Marin over Reus, both of them are 89s too.