CIty Foreigner XI

Now that we've had the all-edumacated XI, how about the all-foreign XI... The player has to have been born outside of England / Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland / Ireland / the Channel Islands, and to have appeared for us in a recognised first-team match.

The back-5 I think is easy:

G: Schwarzer (Australia)
RB: Podd (St. Kitts)
CH: Blake (Jamaica), Cooke (Dominica)
LB: Meredith (Australia)

M/W trickier, but how about Vincelot (France), Edds (Australia), Jorgensen (Faroe Islands), Marshall (Jamaica)

F: Wells (Bermuda) and Carbone (Italy)

We'd have a quality subs bench too:

Henderson (Oz), Halle (Norway), Molenaar (Netherlands), Dieng (France), Kulcsar (Hungary), Daley (Jamaica), Ndumbu Nsungu (Congo)

and still have enough left over to easily make up a City worst XI!

I'll put the pool of players I've come up with in the next post.

RCB

 

From my files, these are the relevant players (note that I do not have places of birth for everybody who's ever played for us). An * after the name means a player in on loan.

G: Davies (Australia), Hansen* (Denmark), Henderson (Australia), Jansson* (Sweden), Jones (Australia), Myhill * (USA), Paston (New Zealand), Petterson* (Australia), Raeder (Germany), Ricketts (Jamaica), Roberts (Australia), Sattelmaier (Germany), Schwarzer (Australia), Vaesen* (Belgium), Zabica (Australia)

RB: Halle (Norway), Petrescu (Romania), Podd (St. Kitts), Uhlenbeek (Surinam)

CH: Barr (Australia), Blake (Jamaica), Cooke (Dominica), de Oliveira (Portugal), Good* (Australia), Isherwood (Sweden), McGowan (Australia), Molenaar (Netherlands), Routis (France), Sas (Netherlands), Seip (Netherlands), Stewart* (Jamaica)

LB: Meredith (Australia), Youga (Central African Republic)

M/W: Barrau (France), Daley (Jamaica), de Vita (Italy), Dieng (France), Edds (Australia), Eisa (Sudan), Furman* (South Africa), Ismail (Albania), Johnson* (Jamaica), Jorgensen (Faroe Islands), Kulcsar (Hungary), Marshall (Jamaica), Morais (Portugal), Nix (Australia), Pehrsson* (Sweden), Petta (Netherlands), Pinto (Portugal), Reid (PJ) (Australia), Seedorf* (Netherlands), Sepp (Netherlands), Songo'o (Cameroon), Verveer (Surinam), Vincelot (France)

F: Adebola* (Nigeria), Ashikodi* (Nigeria), Bookman (Lithuania), Bruenker (Germany), Cadete (Mozambique), Carbone (Italy), Chilaka (Nigeria), Edinho (Brazil), Grodowski (Germany), Juanjo (Spain), Manners (Barbados), Ndumbu Nsungu (Congo), Rabiega (Germany), Regtop (Netherlands), Rodriguez (France), Steiner (Sweden), Stephenson (Jamaica), Sundgot (Norway), ten Heuvel (Netherlands), Topp (Chile), Vanhala (Finland), Vukcic (Slovenia), Wells (Bermuda), Zoko (Ivory Coast)

Edited to add Eisa and Songo'o, now that they've appeared for us.

RCB

 

No. Just, no.

We really do run through the range from absolute legends to absolute (insert appropriate term of abuse here). Then there's some that were quality, but just not for us (e.g. Petrescu). The first XI and subs though, would be an excellent side, and there would be enough good players left over to fill out the squad nicely.

RCB

 

Just the one, I think, for a second booking in Todd's last match in charge.

Zoko is another who was adequate elsewhere, but didn't do it for us.

RCB