Championship Manager players whose real- life careers flopped. Hundreds of scouts gather data on the tens of thousands of real players included in the game’s database. But they’re not always right. Each generation includes teenage prodigies tipped to be the next big thing; legendary names that any Championship Manager fan will recognise. But for a lot of these kids, CM was the height of their fame – they never quite managed to match their in- game exploits. Ever wondered what happened to the players that made up the core of your quadruple- winning sides of yesteryear? Read on. 1. Tonton Zola Moukoko. Edition: CM 9. 9/0. Position: Attacking midfielder. In the game: Perhaps the most famous CM player of all time, Congolose- born Swede Moukoko began the 9. Derby County’s youth team. He was Waitrose quality for a Lidl price; the Maradona of the Midlands, for as little as £5. When CM is cited in divorce cases, it is surely because of a disagreement over whether “Tonton” should be the child’s first or middle name. In real life: Tonton never made it big – after Derby he returned to Sweden to knock about the lower leagues due to “family issues”. Bleacher Report. Ontario masters fastball:league web site hosted at eteamz - Stoney Creek, Ontario, Ontario Canada. Comprehensive National Basketball.He’s still there, as a player/youth coach for IFK Lidingö FK. By all accounts he’s pretty happy with his cult status. There are several Facebook fan pages devoted to him , and Sports Interactive (the company that makes Football Manager)brought him over to the UK for a five- a- side game last year in what is surely the first case of a player getting a testimonial for their fictional exploits. The USMNT cruised to a 2-0 victory in tonight’s CONCACAF Gold Cup quarterfinal despite the fact that El Salvador repeatedly treated players like you. ORIGINS ITALY loves Italian Soccer / Football! 2004 Coppa Italia - 2003 Italian. Italian soccer championship pin. #azzurri #campioni #worldcup #. Information on the Colin Jose Media Award and. Previous Award Recipients. he remained until his retirement in 2004. His soccer stories covered. Maxim Tsigalko. Edition: CM 0. Position: Striker. In the game: It didn’t matter that they didn’t spell his name correctly (it’s actually “Maksim Tsyhalka”) – Max was blessed. If deployed correctly, as a poacher in the box, the Dinamo Minsk kid was known to score more than 1. And all for a price of less than £2m. In real life: Retired by the age of 2. His twin brother is still a pro goalie, though, and luckily doesn’t appear to have the same problems keeping his body in one piece. Read More. 3. Ibrahima Bakayako. Edition: CM 9. 7/9. Position: Striker. In the game: He made Bergkamp look like a white van with the parking brake left off, slowly backing into a canal. In real life: His nickname with Everton fans was “Baka- joke- o”, as his £4. Merseyside gave a return of only four goals. Since he left England in 1. Europe’s minor leagues, most recently finding some success in Greece’s second division. Serge Makofo. Grimsby Town Football Club first team during the photocall at Blundell Park, ahead of the 2. Pictured wearing the teams home kit is Serge Makofo. Picture: Rick Byrne PICTURE: Rick Byrne / Grimsby Telegraph REQUESTED BY: Paul Smith CONTACT: DATE: 2. POSTCODE: KEYWORDS: Mariners, home strip, kit. Edition: CM4. Position: Striker (mostly)In the game: Every time you started a new game, Makofo – at then- new despicable franchise club MK Dons – played in a different position, but no matter where you put him he excelled. And thanks to his club’s financial problems, you could get him for close to nothing. In real life: Non- league journeyman, with seasons at such glamorous clubs as Maidenhead United, Potters Bar Town and Grimsby, where he was so awful even the club’s chairman called him a “disaster”. Cherno Samba. PUBLIC Cherno Samba Millwall 2. Edition: CM 0. 1/0. Position: Striker. In the game: The kind of striker that doesn’t so much “kick a ball” as “hadouken the f**k out of it”. In real life: He scored 1. Except, well, like a lot of “teenage” African stars with missing birth certificates, “young” Cherno literally looked like a man playing against boys. He’s officially only 2. Norway and by all accounts is nearly past it already. Freddy Adu. Edition: CM 0. Position: Winger/Striker/Attacking midfielder. In the game: A ludicrously gifted 1. Freddy could slot straight into the first- XI of almost any team in the world. He’d only get better from there. In real life: Ah, hubris. Freddy’s still only 2. Everyone was treating him like a true superstar for so long – he was endorsing Campbell’s Soup and appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated before he could grow facial hair – that, when it became clear that he was probably only Quite Good at best, it gave the phrase “the next Freddy Adu” something of an Ozymandian quality. He currently plays for Bahia in Brazil, on loan from the Philadelphia Union. Kennedy Bakircioglu. Edition: CM 0. 1/0. Position: Midfielder. In the game: Need a European playmaker to pull the strings in midfield? Does he have to be bald? Is Zidane too expensive? The unpronounceable Bakircioglu was your man. In real life: Kennedy was actually a decent player in real life, playing for Ajax and Racing Santander. But his early, failed trial at Manchester United haunted him, and there’s a really weird interview he did once where he describes sitting up late at night playing CM just to see what would have happened if he had been signed by Fergie. Also, he’s a bit famous for his combovers. Andri Sigþórsson. Edition: CM 3. Position: Striker. In the game: He had his potential rating set to the maximum of 2. In real life: While not quite reaching the heights CM scouts thought he would, poor old Andri did look to have a promising career until he suffered a career- ending knee injury in 2. He is apparently “now in charge of his father’s successful chain of bakeries”. Taribo West. Taribo West of Derby County's hair was just special. Edition: CM 0. 1/0. Position: Defender. In the game: Available on a free from AC Milan, Taribo was the solid first signing every manager made at the beginning of any new game. In real- life: After an early career being fought over by Italy’s biggest clubs, Taribo spent much of the 0. European leagues while sporting the hairstyles that were terrible even for footballers. Also, most famously, the chairman of Partizan Belgrade publicly accused him of lying about his age. He wasn’t 2. 8 when he signed for them in 2. Mark Kerr. Edition: CM 0. Position: Midfielder. In the game: The greatest Scottish – nay, British – player of all time, who could control, organise and command a football match as readily as Ellen Page could manipulate dream cities and landscapes in Inception. In real- life: Scotland’s greatest footballing hope spent most of his career pissing about in midfield for Dundee United. His most memorable moment is throwing away a cup final against Rangers with a notoriously poor backpass. Tommy Svindal Larsen. Edition: CM 9. 7/9. Position: Defensive midfielder. In the game: As far as CM players are concerned, Larsen was the best midfield player of his generation. Sitting in front of defence, pinging balls out to wings and shielding the goal from attack, he was a rock. Our rock. In real- life: He played 2. Norway, and spent most of his time pottering about playing for Nuremberg and the wonderfully- named Odd Greenland. As far as we can tell from the recent photo we found of him, he now spends his time working the Dr House impersonation circuit. Read More. Football Manager 2.
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