Good footballing countries we have never had a player from?

[s20Blade]

Spain and Germany?

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Jordan Amissah is German.

 

[BigBed]

Portugal?

 

[s20Blade]

Jordan Amissah is German.

Do'h!

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

Spain and Germany?

Khadra?

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

Portugal?

Bruno Ribeiro

 

[s20Blade]

Khadra?

Do'h

 

[Cassius Kray]

I'm going to guess that the best countries (in terms of FIFA rankings) that we've never had a player from are Mexico (14th) and Japan (18th)?

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Portugal?

Marcelo.

Born in Brazil but recognised as being Portuguese.

 

[Deleted member 23679]

We’ve never had a Spanish player

 

[Cassius Kray]

We’ve never had a Spanish player

Seems like you're right, that's a surprise.

(Also the internet reckons we once had a Japanese player called Shokichi Sato, back in 1990 - anyone remember him?)

 

[DifferentClass]

We’ve never had a Spanish player

We've had Bosnians, Chinese, Canadians and Chileans (via the Potteries) but never a Spaniard.

Rather incredible!

 

[FMBlade1]

Pomares is Spanish but he never made the first team

Carlos Pomares - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[loyalblade95]

Jordan Amissah is German.

Only on loan but Reda Khadra was german

 

[Blade for Sale]

We've had Bosnians, Chinese, Canadians and Chileans (via the Potteries) but never a Spaniard.

Rather incredible!

The curse of Juanpi runs deep

 

[Weasel]

Only on loan but Reda Khadra was german

Paul Casey the lad who played a few games for us in the early 80s (fullback who cdme through the youth set up) was born in Germany also.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Bashambauer?

 

[Guesty]

Paul Casey the lad who played a few games for us in the early 80s (fullback who cdme through the youth set up) was born in Germany also.

Chris Short was also born in Germany, presumably for the same reason Casey was - he's an army brat.

His brother Craig Short was born in England though.

 

[BladesOnToast]

I'm going to guess that the best countries (in terms of FIFA rankings) that we've never had a player from are Mexico (14th) and Japan (18th)?

I imagine I'm being dense, but I can't think of anyone who's played for us who's Colombian (12th in rankings)

 

[CrookesBlade]

Don’t think we’ve had any from the following Euros qualifiers:

Switzerland
Denmark
Ukraine
Georgia
Hungary
Albania

 

[CrookesBlade]

I imagine I'm being dense, but I can't think of anyone who's played for us who's Colombian (12th in rankings)

Nearest we got was Hamilton Ricard

 

[Chezzy Blades]

Don’t think we’ve had any from the following Euros qualifiers:

Switzerland
Denmark
Ukraine
Georgia
Hungary
Albania

We had a Hungarian on loan from Ferencvaros, Gardos (sp) I think he was called, but he never made the first team same as Pomares from Spain.

Osula is Danish.

 

[Silent Blade]

Don’t think we’ve had any from the following Euros qualifiers:

Switzerland
Denmark
Ukraine
Georgia
Hungary
Albania

Osula

 

[GreasyChipBeattie]

We’ve never had a Spanish player

I'm sure I heard a mate saying we've had a fair few Spanish players, as recently as last season.

Edit: Sorry, I checked back with him and apparently he didn't say any of them were called Juan Carr.

 

[S64 Blade]

It is a bit strange we’ve never had a Spanish player when you consider all the other nationalities that have played for us. Very few Italian and Germans too.

Thinking further afield, have we ever had an Uruguayan? South African?

 

[ekke287]

Didn’t we have a Japanese player on the wing a while back? Forgotten his name but maybe 90s / 00s?

I seem to remember him getting sent off one game and kicking off on the walk off, left the pitch at John street and walked all the round to the south stand via the mop as he was fuming…

Help me out team…

 

[Davalon]

Don’t think we’ve had any from the following Euros qualifiers:

Switzerland
Denmark
Ukraine
Georgia
Hungary
Albania

Had a Hungarian full back play as a trialist in a friendly - maybe the game Sabella was originally meant to be coming to.

 

[gavtheblade]

Guardiorra??

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

This might be the most preseasony thread I've seen in a long time.

 

[LBA_Blade]

This might be the most preseasony thread I've seen in a long time.

If that is not in the dictionary, it certainly needs to be!