Worst capped players

Discussion in 'The Beautiful Game' started by Doctor Stamen, Dec 4, 2005.

  1. Doctor Stamen

    Doctor Stamen New Member

    Nov 14, 2001
    In a bag with a cat.
    Who has you thinking 'why was he picked ?'.

    My suggestions:

    1. Anrea Silenzi, Italy 1 cap: A useless striker who once played for Nottingham Forest. Alan Hansen famously remarked "If he is an international player, then the other 22 players must have been injured."

    2. Michael Ricketts, England 1 cap: Big burly forward who was capped by Sven after half a good season with Bolton around 2001. Now playing for Cardiff, after playing for Middlesborough and Leeds, post financial collapse.
     
  2. Seaside Mafia

    Seaside Mafia New Member

    May 29, 2005
    London
    Phil Neville - 57 caps for England (or something equally mental), and was earning £50,000 per week at Man U. The world had gone mad.
     
  3. Miss Webous

    Miss Webous Member

    Oct 3, 2005
    Club:
    Cruz Azul Hidalgo
    El MAZA . defense from Mexico
     
  4. nicephoras

    nicephoras A very stable genius

    Fucklechester Rangers
    Jul 22, 2001
    Eastern Seaboard of Yo! Semite
    Chris Powell.
     
  5. ejo1956

    ejo1956 Member

    Feb 12, 2005
    New York
    Club:
    New York Red Bulls
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    didn't john wolyniec get a cap sometime last year for the USMNT?
     
  6. RuudVanLineker

    RuudVanLineker New Member

    Oct 11, 2005
    when chriss powell came in, england had bo one at left back, cole was too much of a gamble and le saux was a liability in international games

    if u want the worst capped player ever, by miles : steve guppy, how in the hell did he get a cap, ill tell u, because england have zero left wingers. another we tried was steven froggatt, my god what a national disgrace.

    then again, france still have jean alain boumsong as their cb, and somehow roque jr is still in the brazil nt, one poor spell from him, could be only twenty minutes of madness, and brazil could be going home empty handed(a lot of coulds in this sentence)
     
  7. guado

    guado Member+

    Jun 30, 2004
    ocotengo miedo
    Club:
    Inverness Caledonian Thistle
    Nat'l Team:
    Indonesia
    there is worse than maza. maza is quite as bad as people make him out to be. he could be NT material in the future, but not now.

    meza and lavolpe have made worse call ups than that.

    omar blanco comes to mind.

    the buddy system is not effective in interinational competitions. they need to learn that.
     
  8. dor02

    dor02 Member

    Aug 9, 2004
    Melbourne
    Club:
    UC Sampdoria
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    Gustavo Dezotti for Argentina. He played at Italia 90. His profile said that he was a striker but he didn't play like one.

    Add Marco Materazzi to this list as well as former Socceroo international, David Zdrillic. Zdrillic has to be one of the worst strikers I've seen. He makes Andrea Carnevale look like a World Class striker and I'm not a big fan of Carnevale.
     
  9. Elninho

    Elninho Member+

    Sacramento Republic FC
    United States
    Oct 30, 2000
    Sacramento, CA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm guessing you mean worst player capped by a credible football nation, because all of them are still far better than anyone American Samoa can come up with.

    One candidate:

    Luther Blissett - played a number of times for England. Actually scored three goals in his England career, though it must be noted that all three were in the same match. Most noted for: signing with AC Milan on the Italian club's mistaken belief that he was John Barnes; and becoming an icon for Italian anarchist groups.


    And a whole slew of candidates: most of the USA squad that played Peru on October 16, 1996. By this time, of course, the US was a quite credible footballing nation, having advanced to the second round of the previous World Cup, and gone on to score some pretty stunning wins in 1995.

    The lineup that was trotted out in this friendly, though:

    --------------------------- Mark Dodd
    Tim Martin - Lawrence Lozzano - Tayt Ianni - Zak Ibsen - Eddie Lewis
    --------- Jorge Flores -------- Dario Brose -------- Scott Benedetti
    ------------------- Jean Harbor --------- Ted Eck

    Subs used:
    Mac Cozier (for Jean Harbor 32')
    Joey Leonetti (for Jorge Flores at half)
    Paul Holocher (for Ted Eck 60')
    Ramiro Corrales (for Scott Benedetti 80')

    Of all these players, only Lewis and Corrales would ever be capped again; and even then Lewis got his next cap in November of 1998, while Corrales appeared in a couple friendlies in January 1997 and afterward got his next cap in 2004. Several of the players were career USL players (the lower divisions in the US for those who aren't familiar with the US league system) who never even played in MLS after the 1996 season (which, being the league's first season, of course, featured a lot of roster turnover).

    Needless to say, even a weak Peru squad had no trouble disposing of this joke of a team by a 4-1 score.
     
  10. dor02

    dor02 Member

    Aug 9, 2004
    Melbourne
    Club:
    UC Sampdoria
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    How could AC confuse him with Barnes?
     
  11. Excape Goat

    Excape Goat Member+

    Mar 18, 1999
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    It was a rumor. The story went something liked that. Both of them played for Watford. The AC Milan scouts went to see watford. Barnes played well in that game, but the scout thought he was Blissett so they signed him instead. but it was just a theory.
     
  12. Doctor Stamen

    Doctor Stamen New Member

    Nov 14, 2001
    In a bag with a cat.
    It can happen. There were three Wallace brothers who played at Southampton in the late 1980's, with Rod Wallace, a striker, being the best. Alex Ferguson signed one of the others by mistake.
     
  13. RuudVanLineker

    RuudVanLineker New Member

    Oct 11, 2005
    bobby robson did the same, he sent an agent to wimbledon to get who he thought was jason eull, and they came back with kyle cort for 7m quid. what a ******** up
     
  14. Scottish_Morton

    Jul 7, 2003
    Irvine, Scotland
    Robbie Stockdale
    Lee Wilkie
    Kevin Kyle
    Warren Cummings
    Stephen Crainey
    Gareth Williams
    Paul Devlin
    Graeme Murty
    Richard Hughes
    Peter Canero
    Andy Gray
    David Marshall
    Stephen Pearson
    Paul Gallacher
    Michael Stewart
    Steve Thompson

    How these players managed to get capped for Scotland i'll never kno...oh wait I do know why, B*rti V*gts was in charge at the time :mad:
     
  15. spencercs

    spencercs New Member

    Dec 1, 2005
    London
    England must have looked formidable when chris powell and steve guppy lined up down the left flank
     
  16. spoonman

    spoonman Member

    Sep 6, 2005
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    Bert Konterman, Regi Blinker, Jordi Cruijff, John Veldman, John van den Brom
     
  17. spencercs

    spencercs New Member

    Dec 1, 2005
    London

    alan thompson got his first and final cap at the age of 32
     
  18. spencercs

    spencercs New Member

    Dec 1, 2005
    London
    like the theory that real madrid signed graveson because they thought he was all over the pitch, when actually he wasnt they just thought him and lee carsley were the same player.
     
  19. spencercs

    spencercs New Member

    Dec 1, 2005
    London
    you mean carl cort?
     
  20. Scottish_Morton

    Jul 7, 2003
    Irvine, Scotland
    For a couple of years Thompson would've been a good addition to the England squad. He was excellent the year Celtic went to the UEFA cup final. By the time he did get capped, about a year later, he was just over the hill and started onto the slippery slide to how shite he is now.
     
  21. Scottish_Morton

    Jul 7, 2003
    Irvine, Scotland
    Bert Konterman was awful, have to agree with you on that one! Regi Blinker got capped :eek:, how the hell did that happen?!
     
  22. spoonman

    spoonman Member

    Sep 6, 2005
    Nat'l Team:
    Netherlands
    Blinker got three caps in the early nineties, he posessed some fotographs of Dick Advocaat performing some dodgy activities.
     
  23. Master of his Domain

    Dec 5, 2005
    Ohmerica
    David Regis (USA, 98WC)
    Serginho, Valdir Peres (Brazil, 82WC)
    Edmundo (BRA, 98WC)
    Hugo Sancehz (Mexico, 86 and 94WC)
     
  24. minorthreat

    minorthreat Member

    Jan 1, 2001
    NYC
    Club:
    Real Madrid
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    Five-time Pichichi, joint record holder for most Liga Primera goals in a single season, and second most prolific goalscorer in Liga Primera history Hugo Sanchez? This has to be a joke.
     
  25. Glass Moon

    Glass Moon Member

    Jul 15, 2005
    Brasil
    Club:
    Sao Paulo FC
    WTF?

    Serginho Chulapa was Brazil´s best goalscorer at the time (scored 248 goals for my team São Paulo) and Valdir Perez, a great keeper (remember him saving two Paul Breitner penalty kicks in a friendly before the world cup?).
     

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