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Absolutely brilliant midfielder for Valencia whose career (including a short cameo at Barca) afterwards was a huge disappointment. Now a DJ, coming to a party near you. http://www.superdeporte.es/valencia/2011/07/16/dj-mendi-bailar-fibers/133600.html

I couldn't find a topic for Gio, surprisingly. He was a good player for Barca, one of the few Dutch players I've been a fan of since the days when Barca was Dutch-dominanted ended. Glad to see he still keeps in touch with the team.

Great French sweeper for the national team, current coach of France, FC Barcelona flop.

Saviola was named the best player of 2010 in the Portuguese league.

One of my all time favourites, he is leaving River again and it looks like this is it. Ortega missed the first practice of the year and Juan Jose Lopez has told him he will not be a part of the team. Of course he made comebacks before but it might be time for him to just retire. Either way...

Which mainstream electronic music genre do you prefer. Feel free to add an opinion on other genres but at pick one of the big two - techno is dead, electro (which is more my thing) is for hipsters and drum and bass is too niche, so I tried to keep it simple.

Name: Ángel Javier Arizmendi AKA: The Spanish Pele, Nazimendi Date of Birth: 3 March 1984 Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain Height: 1.90m Forward / Winger Getafe CF Clearly we should have gotten Arizmendi instead of Villa. He has more goals after all. And that's with Getafe, he'd obviously have...

I thought there was already a Vargas topic, but I can't find it.... Anyway, congratulations to Peru's new captain! :wub:

The Beast of Barcelona returns to La Liga as one of Laudrup's assistants at Mallorca. :party00231:

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Although not a very high profile picture Unzué has been Barcelona's goalkeeping coach since 2003. He also briefly played for the team in the late 80's where he had the misfortune of being the backup to Zubizarreta. Today it has been announced that after 7 years of service in the coaching...

Uruguay has a lot of talent in their starting line up, but little depth outside of forwards. Today they beat Israel 4-1 with a brace from El Loco Abreu and goals from sexygoalmachine Forlan and Pereira. In qualifying they barely made the World Cup, but also showed the ability to beat any team...

It's clear Maradona's selection process relied more on blind faith and loyalty than form this season or common sense. What do you think was the biggest mistake - Zanetti's leadership? Cambiasso, arguably the best overall defensive midfielder? Gabriel Milito, whose revival as part of La Liga's...

To procrastinate I'm going to list my 09/10 all-finished lineup. GK: Andres Palop Maybe not finished, but he's definitely not the top tier keeper he once was, and didn't deserve to be Spain's bench warmer in the 2008 Euros ahead of Victor Valdes. He's good enough to start behind one of La...

I decided the legend needs a topic after discovering rumors linking him to Lazio. :lol:

And this year's award for worst high profile Serie A player goes to my man Melo! Second place (the silver trashcan) goes to last years winner Quaresma. Melo is the third Brazilian to win this great award, after Rivaldo and two time "champ" Adriano. Meanwhile, somewhere in Firenze, Corvino...

I know South American league football isn't exactly popular around here, but it's been an interesting Copa Sudamerica (basically the CONMEBOL version of the Europa but with more interlaping between it and the Libertadores) LDU Quito, the first Ecuadorian winner of the Libertadores in 2008 are...

I continue my quest to fix the lack of topics in this section (I mean seriously, clowns like Oleguer and Riquelme get topics but not Cocu or Kluivert?) by turning to the foreign player with the most appearances in club history, the one and only Cocu (1998-2004). Phillip John William Cocu...

Patrick Kluvert, Dutch striker who played for Barcelona between 1998 and 2004. I know fans have mixed feelings about Pat, but talent-wise he's up there with Ronaldo and Romario as one of the most naturally gifted strikers of all time. While he never lived up to his ability and his love of the...

Can anyone give me a good reason why, of all the 21 year old defenders we bought, none of them are David Luiz? He's just as young as Caceres, he's tall (.01M shorter than the Ukrainian), he's athletic - above average speed, enough to play both CB and LB comfortably, and he's skilled, the man...