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Nov 26 2014 11:49pm
Arguably 1 of the most underrated players

[YOUTUBE]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ytSkvZ88yoc[/YOUTUBE]

Ists asprilla.

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Nov 27 2014 01:14am
I haven't heard shevchenko in a while... Yet he is arguably one of the best strikers...
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Nov 27 2014 05:36am
When have you heard asprilla?
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Nov 27 2014 07:09am


Robert Prosnecki. Shame he flopped and didn't meet the (high) expectations everyon had for him. He was a key player in that Crvena Zvezda that surprised everyone by winning the CL in 1991, and in that golden generation of Yugoslavia that never had the chance to be after winning the U20 WC and reaching the U21 Euro final a year before the country broke up. Not much happened after that. He joined Madrid, where he flopped (mainly due to inconsistent play, injuries, and hard partying), and went on to having a mediocre carreer in La Liga before returning to Croatia. He did manage to become the only player to score in a WC with 2 different teams though, after scoring with Yugoslavia in 1990 and with Croatia 8 years later.

Even though he's remembered in Spain (mostly because of how he flopped), he's pretty much forgotten everywhere else.

In Spain, he has made some ads for Renault where he makes fun of himself for flopping (like in one of them where he sells a toy version of himself that breaks when you touch it, falls exhausted if you leave it standing, and says "let's party" if you hug him :LOL: )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZC4MHgni4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sh9NpJ7SpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61MdLRf2cM4
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Nov 27 2014 07:25am
Quote (zarkadon @ Nov 27 2014 02:09pm)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSIVcMmTOeA

Robert Prosnecki. Shame he flopped and didn't meet the (high) expectations everyon had for him. He was a key player in that Crvena Zvezda that surprised everyone by winning the CL in 1991, and in that golden generation of Yugoslavia that never had the chance to be after winning the U20 WC and reaching the U21 Euro final a year before the country broke up. Not much happened after that. He joined Madrid, where he flopped (mainly due to inconsistent play, injuries, and hard partying), and went on to having a mediocre carreer in La Liga before returning to Croatia. He did manage to become the only player to score in a WC with 2 different teams though, after scoring with Yugoslavia in 1990 and with Croatia 8 years later.

Even though he's remembered in Spain (mostly because of how he flopped), he's pretty much forgotten everywhere else.

In Spain, he has made some ads for Renault where he makes fun of himself for flopping (like in one of them where he sells a toy version of himself that breaks when you touch it, falls exhausted if you leave it standing, and says "let's party" if you hug him :LOL: )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZC4MHgni4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sh9NpJ7SpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61MdLRf2cM4


I see you talk quite often about Yugoslavia and their players, nice to see.
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Nov 27 2014 07:30am
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I see you talk quite often about Yugoslavia and their players, nice to see.


They've produced a lot of quality players. I feel sorry that they never managed to win anything...

I guess it has a lot to do with the fact that I grew up watching tons of balkan players in La Liga (Mijatovic, Suker, Jarni, Stankovic, Prosinecki, Paunovic, etc). It made me interested in balkan football, and when the internet began to allow me to watch old and classic football games, I digged pretty deep into the football history of Yugoslavia.
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Nov 27 2014 02:16pm
i wanted to post Poborsky but youtube quality blows
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Nov 27 2014 02:56pm
Jose Luis Chilavert. One of the greatest Keepers ever :-)


[YOUTUBE] http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BAsFDUu9oAU[/YOUTUBE]
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Nov 27 2014 04:31pm
Quote (KB24DD @ 27 Nov 2014 21:16)
i wanted to post Poborsky but youtube quality blows


lol, I had forgotten about him myself

but yeah, Youtube quality is a problem, I wanted to post some Alfonso Pérez (one of my first football idols), but the quality of the videos I found was simply garbage.

I'll post another Betis legend though:
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Nov 27 2014 04:31pm


Finidi George. He did wonderful stuff for that wonderful Ajax that reached 2 CL finals in the 90s. After that he moved to Betis, where he became a club legend. He's probably the first african player to ever triumph in La Liga. Superb winger.

He also played for Mallorca later on B)

Shame the video is only about his Betis spell, because he also did some lovely stuff for Ajax and my boys.
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