Toepoke Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 (edited) Christophe Cocard? Probably the best Ki1marnock could offer in terms of an international from a top country. Only 9 caps, but for France that's a decent haul... Edited April 19, 2015 by Toepoke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitre Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Not really top level but Marko Rajamaki & Janne Lindberg for Morton were getting caps for Finland when they were in the 2nd/3rd tier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Probably the best Ki1marnock could offer in terms of an international from a top country. Only 9 caps, but for France that's a decent haul... Fair shout on that one when you consider what France had to choose from in the 90s. Didn't he score a winning goal at Ibrox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhumper Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Fair shout on that one when you consider what France had to choose from in the 90s. Didn't he score a winning goal at Ibrox? He scored in a 3-0 victory at ibrox. Whilst wearing trainers as be forgot his boots. What a day that was. Tannoy announcing ferries to Belfast were cancelled was the icing on the cake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishcumnock Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Kyriakov ,dons &Bulgaria ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cove_Sheep Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Gunni Torfason Sergei Baltacha Franck Sauzee The blonde Bulgarian from the 94 WC squad at Aberdeen Neither of our Bulgarians were blonde. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenAngus Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Kyriakov ,dons &Bulgaria ! The Vulgar Bulgar as he became known to us after spitting on a Killie player Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaid Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Neither of our Bulgarians were blonde. Strawberry blonde. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbcmfc Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Eliphas Shivute, who was claimed to be the second most famous sportsman in Namibia after Frankie Fredericks. Did also claim to have grown up watching Alex Mcleish at Aberdeen and that's why he signed. Finnish international Simo Valakari held the record for the most caps won whilst a motherwell player before Craigan overtook him a few years ago. Tommy Coyne is the only motherwell player I've seen at a World Cup (USA '94). Sasa Curcic made a cameo at fir park, won some caps for Yugoslavia, was mental! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoonTheSlope Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Russell Latapy, voted the 33rd best player in the world while playing for Hibs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boynze Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Peter kjaer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 (edited) Neither of our Bulgarians were blonde. Kiriakov was blonde during WC 1994. It's probable that playing for Aberdeen 3/4 years later may well have turned his hair a different colour from the stress of the job. Edited April 22, 2015 by Barney Rubble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I feel we may have strayed from the 'major' category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biffer Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Baltacha is clearly the most accomplished. 45 caps for the soviet union, European championships runners up medal, bronze medal from the Olympics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Peter kjaer. Player if we had been able to get 5/6 years earlier I think would have been as big a hero as Snelders. Remember big deal was made about him being colourblind when we signed him, yet did not seem to be a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boynze Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Morten weighorst. I am sure he played in a world cup whilst with Dundee in the fist division. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fringo Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Morten weighorst. I am sure he played in a world cup whilst with Dundee in the fist division. Scandanavian porn league ! Didn't know they had that ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hannibal smith Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Takis fysass no long off the back of winning the euros with Greece and edgaras jankauakas who won the champs league with Porto, different class Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euan2020 Posted April 22, 2015 Author Share Posted April 22, 2015 Baltacha is clearly the most accomplished. 45 caps for the soviet union, European championships runners up medal, bronze medal from the Olympics. Nah - I'm still going for Victor - Ex Spain captain 60- caps, played for Barcelona " Quique is all sharp suits and stylish scarves, Schuster hideous golf jumpers, pink shirts and brilliant white trousers, Laudrup tidiness personified. VÃctor dons a duffle coat and hood that bring out the hobgoblin in him. Quique's aunt is one of the country's most famous flamenco singers, Schuster was Germany's Beckham before Beckham was England's and Laudrup got dubbed the King of Spain by the King of Spain. Muñoz? Well, he hung about with Steve Archibald and joined St Mirren. "What's the difference between me and them?" he shrugged, pointing at his mug: "This." He is, as one journalistic genius put it, "the unacceptable face of football". " http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2008/dec/01/getafe-la-liga-spain-real-madrid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThistleWhistle Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 When Stoke were p!sh in the third tier we had a ragtag bunch of varying degrees of awful players applying varying degrees of effort. Andy Cooke is the worst player I have ever seen, and I’ve seen Dave Rowson, but played pretty much every week simply because he could run about a bit up top. His favourite move was to run three yards beyond the near post, let the ball hit the corner of his square head, miss the target by the same three yards then hold his square face in various contortions of frustration like it was close – every game without fail. There was a centre midfielder who covered every blade of grass apart from those in centre midfield and his partner was too fat to compensate. We had a winger who could cross but not run and a winger who could run but not cross; a keeper who obviously liked pies; a centre back who could have made it but rarely showed it; a centre back who shouldn’t have made it and always showed it and; a couple of full backs who seemed to have ended up at us a last resort. In to this we somehow signed left winger Peter Hoekstra with his career path being PSV, Ajax (to replace Overmars!), 5 caps for Holland (inc Euro 96) and then Stoke. He had glass ankles, and if he hadn’t we’d have never got him, but the games he managed to play for us were simply magnificent – if the paper announced he was playing there’d be 3000 extra on the gate. He managed less than half the league games in his first season but had the second highest assists in the league as he somehow managed to drag the puddings around him up to a level of mediocrity they could previously only dream of. I was at Chesterfield away when Stoke should have won by 12 goals but all the chances he created kept being missed in ever increasing comedic fashion. It got to the point he decided he would just score himself instead, bagged a brace and, to get back at one of their players for continually kicking him ever higher in the air, then decided to keep possession on his own for a minute where almost their whole team tried and failed to tackle him. He went off to a standing ovation from all sides of the ground. He was beyond the comprehension of most Stoke fans to begin with as he was initially deemed sh!t because he couldn’t trap a ball with his forehead. This all changed a few weeks in when he chased a long ball punted over the top. Every player in that league would have let it run to the by-line and try for a corner. He took it out of the sky with the first touch; before it hit the ground had nipped it over the head of the plodder chasing him with his second; looked up (an unheard of skill in this league!); seeing nobody in the box nipped it back through the plodders legs and slowed it up a second (again tantamount to witchcraft). In that time plodder got some reluctant backup but Hoekstra did what can only be described as jazz feet where he kept his knees together and pretended to hit it with each foot. Out of nowhere it hits from his right to his left and pops up between the three of them. It was like bullet time in the Matrix; as Hoekstra pivots to cross it on the volley plodder flies in again to block it and again has it nipped over his head. Hoekstra shaped again to cross it and plodder, gamely but ultimately futile, staggers like a drunk to block it again with his team mate also flying in. Hoekstra catches it on his foot and stands for a second with it balanced there as the two of them end in a heap on the ground. He rolls it between them and saunters to the ball like he’s about to cross it again. Seeing Andy Cooke making his trade mark run he decides to beat another defender instead. Seeing Iwelumo standing unmarked and frantically waving in the middle he decides to float it way over his head to avoid embarrassment and instead deems it more likely to be successful picking out the couple of goals in 200 career appearance right back arriving late at the back post to score a simple tap in. He managed just about but I’ll always remember the look of fear on his face as he saw the ball coming his way after what had gone before. There’s a Youtube video of his goal of the season v Watford and a video of his Hat-trick v Reading, that also has goal of the season in it, that shows just how far ahead he was of anyone on the pitch. Bojan now is by far Stoke’s best player but the gulf between him and the rest is nowhere near as pronounced as it was with Hoekstra. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairbairn Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Back then Rangers signing the likes of Kuznetsov and Mykhaylychenko. Miko in particular was quite a coup. Signed in 1991 having won Olympic gold and European Championship runner up in 1988 (think he was Captain?) as well as being part of the Sampdoria team that won their first ever Scudetto in 1990. Interestingly enough he won the league in 7 consecutive seasons in 3 countries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney Rubble Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Back then Rangers signing the likes of Kuznetsov and Mykhaylychenko. Miko in particular was quite a coup. Signed in 1991 having won Olympic gold and European Championship runner up in 1988 (think he was Captain?) as well as being part of the Sampdoria team that won their first ever Scudetto in 1990. Interestingly enough he won the league in 7 consecutive seasons in 3 countries. Including three successive championships in different countries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynnyboy Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Takis fysass no long off the back of winning the euros with Greece and edgaras jankauakas who won the champs league with Porto, different class Fysass was in the official team of the tournament and then joined hearts. He was a brilliant player. Similarly Arthur numan was probably the best left back in the world when he signed for rangers. Two great signings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boynze Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Fysass was in the official team of the tournament and then joined hearts. He was a brilliant player. Similarly Arthur numan was probably the best left back in the world when he signed for rangers. Two great signings. serious? if numan was the best left back in the world he would not have signed for rangers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynnyboy Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 serious? if numan was the best left back in the world he would not have signed for rangers Absolutely serious. With the obvious exception of maldini who was still playing. Who I actually forgot about. He captained the Netherlands to 3rd place in WC1998. He was brilliant in that tournament. And prior. He really was a top, top player. Far too good for rangers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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