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SaintBobby

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With everyone get excited about us signing Ronaldo, Messi, Fabregas etc, I notice that no Saints player has ever had a full international cap for Brazil, Argentina, France, Italy, Germany (East/West or United), Spain, Russia or Portugal. (whilst playing at our club - caps before or after don't count)

 

We have had Saints players representing (at least) 25 different countries though. Can you name them?

The9

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England (Bridge, Crouch most recently), Wales (Paul Jones), Scotland (Fox), Northern Ireland (S Davis), Latvia (Pahars), Ireland (Delap), Japan (Yoshida, Lee), Ecuador (Delgado, Chala), Yugoslavia (Golac?), Sweden (Svenssons, that sh11thouse Nilsson), Norway (Lundekvam), USA (Keller?), Uruguay (Ramirez), Poland (Rasiak), Trinidad & Tobago (Jake Thomson), Belgium (Jelle Van Damme), Finland (Niemi).

 

That's 17 to be going on with, not sure they're all right though... and did Van Gobbel or Monkou ever pick up a Dutch cap (ho ho)?

BristolSaint

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England (Bridge, Crouch most recently), Wales (Paul Jones), Scotland (Fox), Northern Ireland (S Davis), Latvia (Pahars), Ireland (Delap), Japan (Yoshida, Lee), Ecuador (Delgado, Chala), Yugoslavia (Golac?), Sweden (Svenssons, that sh11thouse Nilsson), Norway (Lundekvam), USA (Keller?), Uruguay (Ramirez), Poland (Rasiak), Trinidad & Tobago (Jake Thomson), Belgium (Jelle Van Damme), Finland (Niemi).

 

That's 17 to be going on with, not sure they're all right though... and did Van Gobbel or Monkou ever pick up a Dutch cap (ho ho)?

Boa Morte for Portugal or was that only after he went to Portugal?

 

Eyal Berkovic - Israel

St Jim

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Boa Morte for Portugal or was that only after he went to Portugal?

 

Eyal Berkovic - Israel

 

Don't know if LBM meets the criteria. He was a registered Saints player when he played for Portugal (first cap was Apr01) but he was on loan to Fulham at the time who bought him in the summer of 2001.

St Jim

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What About Golac - Yugoslavia , or those two Russian chappies.

 

Golac doesn't count as his only cap for Yugoslavia was in 1976 when he was playing for Patrizan Belgrade - we signed him in 1978.

VectisSaint

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Golac doesn't count as his only cap for Yugoslavia was in 1976 when he was playing for Patrizan Belgrade - we signed him in 1978.

I guess Royovic Hodgsonovic was managing Yugoslavia at the time and did not know where Southamptonovic was and so didn't pick one of the greatest ever right backs for the national team. Incredible he only got 1 cap.

Big Bad Bob

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Saganowski = Poland

 

Did Kanchelskis play for Russia while with us? Doubt it as he wasn't here for too long.

 

sergei gotsmanov and alexi cherednik. could have had a game for russia when with us.

 

Guys, guys follow the links in my earlier post, will tell you all you need to know

david in sweden

david in sweden

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Northern Ireland (Jim Magilton & Ian Dowie)

 

 

if you want to go back that far there was; Hugh Kelly and Jimmy Shields in the 1950's ....later Chris Nicholl (37 caps,) Colin Clarke and Chris Baird....and not forgetting our current player .... Steven Davis all for N.I

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david in sweden

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England (Bridge, Crouch most recently), Wales (Paul Jones), Scotland (Fox), Northern Ireland (S Davis), Latvia (Pahars), Ireland (Delap), Japan (Yoshida, Lee), Ecuador (Delgado, Chala), Yugoslavia (Golac?), Sweden (Svenssons, that sh11thouse Nilsson), Norway (Lundekvam), USA (Keller?), Uruguay (Ramirez), Poland (Rasiak), Trinidad & Tobago (Jake Thomson), Belgium (Jelle Van Damme), Finland (Niemi).

 

That's 17 to be going on with, not sure they're all right though... and did Van Gobbel or Monkou ever pick up a Dutch cap (ho ho)?

 

 

well Imants Bleidilis was never " good enough " to play for Saints , yet played alongside Marian Pahars (who most certainly was) .. .in the Latvian side.

 

pretty sure that Tahar El Khalej and Hassan Katchloul both played for Morocco in their time with Saints .

 

and there was also..... Jo Tessem and Egil Ostenstad for Norway...(UGh has Forrran played for them since he joined us ?)

did anyone say ...Antti Niemi for Finland ?

 

....and then again Bruce Grobellaar for Zimbabwe and Emanuel Mayuka for Tanzania ........

 

....how many countries is that now ?

The9

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well Imants Bleidilis was never " good enough " to play for Saints , yet played alongside Marian Pahars (who most certainly was) .. .in the Latvian side.

 

pretty sure that Tahar El Khalej and Hassan Katchloul both played for Morocco in their time with Saints .

 

and there was also..... Jo Tessem and Egil Ostenstad for Norway...(UGh has Forrran played for them since he joined us ?)

did anyone say ...Antti Niemi for Finland ?

 

....and then again Bruce Grobellaar for Zimbabwe and Emanuel Mayuka for Tanzania ........

 

....how many countries is that now ?

 

I'm not being funny, but the question is about the number of countries, not the number of players, so when we have one we don't need any more.

 

Mayuka is Zambian, and already mentioned. In fact in the thread so far (in the first 4 posts) Norway is mentioned, Finland is mentioned and Morocco is mentioned. Zimbabwe is mentioned in post 17.

 

So to answer your question, sort of, no more than before you posted it.

david in sweden

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thank you '9'......now that I've looked back, I see that about half the posts there were also repititions of prev. answers.

 

.I'm glad that are a few of you with the propensity for error-seeking and nit-picking.....they are needed to keep potential Alzheimer candidates like me in our place .....

 

.Ah...what was the question again ?

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The9

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thank you '9'.......I'm glad that are a few of you with the propensity for error-seeking and nit-picking.....they are needed to keep potential Alzheimer candidates like me in our place .....

 

.Ah...what was the question again ?

 

I like to call it "pendantry".

 

The question was how many countries have had Saints internationals. I'm pretty sure of the 18 I listed in the opening post, only Yugoslavia is wrong.

krissyboy31

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Think at the time Golac was playing, the iron curtain was still very much cast across Europe and he would have been castigated almost as a traitor for coming to The West.

 

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VectisSaint

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Saganowski = Poland

 

Did Kanchelskis play for Russia while with us? Doubt it as he wasn't here for too long.

He only played for us once!!! To answer the question, no, 4 years after he played for Russia.

The9

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Think at the time Golac was playing, the iron curtain was still very much cast across Europe and he would have been castigated almost as a traitor for coming to The West.

 

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According to Wiki, the Yugoslav communist authorities allowed players to leave aged 28, which is how old he was when he left. But he only had 1 Yugoslav cap even before that anyway.

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LatvianTolix

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sergei gotsmanov and alexi cherednik. could have had a game for russia when with us.

 

Hi. Just checked the data.

 

Cherednik played 2 games for USSR while at Dnepr Dnepropetrovs, before joining Saints.

Gotsmanov played 31 games for USSR and 3 games for Belarus while at Dynamo Minsk, before joining and after leaving Saints.

No games played while with Saints. Kanchelskis the same.

 

In additions to that, watched very interesting interview with Cherednik on the web for Ukrainian broadcaster. In part 2 of the interview he talked about his experience playing and living in Southampton. sorry, in Russian. if translation needed, can do it but not now. For all of those, who wants to see him how he looks these days (in grey jacket). ;) Enjoy

 

- part 1

- part 2

- part 3
bazza

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Since the early 80's NI's Saints contingent has consisted off: Chris Nicholl, Colin Clarke, Jim Magilton, Iain Dowie, Chris Baird (who played international football before playing a game for Saints' first team) and Steven Davis. The two goalkeepers Maik Taylor & Alan Blayney were capped just after leaving Southampton (one a tad more successful than the other) and Davis has been joined in recent squads by ex-Saint Ben Reeves.

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