schwefumbler Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 My Andorran striker just claimed the World Footballer of the Year and it got me thinking... what are the odds of getting a world class player from such a tiny nation? Anybody else get a dominant player from a nation of similar stature? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrashOverride Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Yeah I have a player who from Vietnam who is one of the best players in the world at the moment. Viet Tuyen Mansor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LCFCtillidie Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 I had a player at United who was from U.A.E who was a class winger. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro007 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 I have got a striker who is banging in the goals from New Zealand and also a very promising striker from India. Hardly goldmines for footballing talents Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomis07 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 08 had a disturbing amount of world class players from bizarre nations. In the 2020's Milan's defence had two players from Saudi Arabia, one from Burkina Faso and an Albanian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
moxphere Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 My Andorran striker just claimed the World Footballer of the Year and it got me thinking... what are the odds of getting a world class player from such a tiny nation?Anybody else get a dominant player from a nation of similar stature? If Dejan Savicevic would be a montenegrin player today(600.000 people); Lilian Thuram is from Guadeloupe (400.000); Christian Karembeu is from New Caledonia (240.000). However, from Andorra, (75.000) it would be quite surprising, indeed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Neil Brock Posted January 29, 2009 Administrators Share Posted January 29, 2009 Don't forget former World Player of the Year George Weah from Liberia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Campbells Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 I have got a striker who is banging in the goals from New Zealand and also a very promising striker from India. Hardly goldmines for footballing talents I also have an excellent New Zealand striker, basically i have two wayne rooneys in my united squad now, its fantastic. Ive seen a few obscure regens that could play at a decent premier league level, but not good enough for my united squad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quackje Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Its not exactly unexpected that these people will show up sooner or later its just going to be more common to see such players from the bigger footballing nations. If a smaller nation does manage to come up with a few at the same time then you get like what happened with the Hungarian national team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
crafty bison Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Lilian Thuram is from Guadeloupe (400.000); Christian Karembeu is from New Caledonia (240.000). However, from Andorra, (75.000) it would be quite surprising, indeed. But these players opted for French as their nationality. I think more regens need second nationalities. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
moxphere Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 But these players opted for French as their nationality. I think more regens need second nationalities. You bet. Actually, the regen random factor should allow small countries to have good/excellent players more often like IRL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the toon Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 And not only adopted french nationality, i assume they moved to france when very young, if not indeed were born in france! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
moxphere Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 And not only adopted french nationality, i assume they moved to france when very young, if not indeed were born in france! No, both of them were born abroad. Thuram was born at Pointe-à-Pitre and Karembeu at Lifou. Although Guadeloupe and New Caledonia are <i>départements</i> from FRance, they could be perfectly independent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the toon Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 I shouldn't assume things but anyway, i still reckon they were pretty young when they moved to france... correct me if i'm wrong though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulpaps Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 There's also people like Seedorf, he's Surinamer I think. He's REALLY involved with the Surinam also, like he spent TONS of cash there to improve infrastructure and stuff. Seedorf=TOP BLOKE! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleepydude Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Seedorf is Dutch, second nationality Surinam, he was born in Paramaribo. I have had world class regens from Mali, Lithuania, Australia, New Zealand, Albania, Tunesia, Cameroon, Ghana, Isreal and Bosnia, to name a few . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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