Players in the NSL

[Allsopp's ALLgood]

I never really followed the old NSL, so I was wondering, who were some of the foreign stars of the old NSL and who was the biggest foreign name to play in the NSL?

[Ady#1]

francis awaratefe

[Carlito]

ian rush,peter beardsley,george best

[Ady#1]

ian meredith :D ,alan hunter

[CC-SE Manager]

Malcolm McDonald in the early days when he came out here to play for South. I was at the games he played but being a young kid I can't remember much of him, but my old man keeps saying how back then he was the equivalent of say a Bergkamp coming out here now to play for Victory. Middle Park in those days was absolute jampacked when McDonald guest starred.

[trelos]

South Melbourne had Ferenc Puskas as coach

[El Zilcho]

ian rush

what a joke that was.

[agitator]

Kevin Keegan at Blacktown City.

[pierrelittbarskisdaughter]

Zeljko Adzic. While not coming over here with the reputation of say a Beardsley or Best he made a huge impact. Ask any old Melbourne Croatia fan.

[futuremelvicstar]

http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/NSL/NSL.html got alot of info on N.S.L

[pierrelittbarskisdaughter]

Cyrill Ndongo-Keller
Ransford Banini
Ermanno Pelucchi
Andrea Icardi

[Viv Richards]

Milan Ivanovic

[aL3n]

Sydney United signing Aljosa Asanovic was pretty big

[box]

charlie george, arsenal legend
played for sydney city i think
but my alltime favourite milan udravaz, hungairian goalkeeper played 1 season for sth. worst player of alltime

[hellas7]

Jose Iriarte from west Adelaide
Kresimur Marusic from melb knights, syd utd, northern sprit, carlton and whoever else he played for lol.

[bazza]

Milan Ivanovic
He was class. Why didnt Venables pick him for the home game against Iran will be a mystery to us all especially since both the goals conceded were in the centre of defence. :(

[conya62]

charlie george, arsenal legend
played for sydney city i think
but my alltime favourite milan udravaz, hungairian goalkeeper played 1 season for sth. worst player of alltime

Charlie George played a few games for St George, one of them against South when Malcolm McDonald was here. We lost 2-3 at middle park with a packed stadium, even had all the kids sitting over th fence on the grass.
Great memories Box.

[box]

ahhh that is correct conya
knew it was some extinct sydney club.
anyway it was a great time for football

[rhinoceros]

Ivanovic and Marusic were the best - from my viewing in the 90's

[agitator]

ahhh that is correct conya
knew it was some extinct sydney club.
anyway it was a great time for footballSt George aren't an "extinct" sydney club box. they are alive and well, currently playing in the Winter Super League in NSW.

[stinger]

Alex Moiria for carlton :rolleyes:

[AVFC88]

Alex Moiria for carlton :rolleyes:

ROFLMAO.

This is the thing that farkin shits me about football in this country. If someone is brazilian they are presumed to be a superstar. Yeah, this bloke is so farkin good he is playing for Donny Rovers i think :p

Further proof - Ask Preston :D Heard their Brazilian is going great guns :)

[ultra fan]

MICHAEL CONROY FOR CARLTON SC!!!

...how can we forget him!

[rhinoceros]

Tota Da Costa - angolan at Knights

[Carlito]

nicola berti for marconi

[GATE04]

Hugo Giminez & Claudio Canosa
Both from Argentina

[pierrelittbarskisdaughter]

Washington Gonzalez - Over 50 Full Caps for Urugauy (played for Parramatta Melita for years)
Gerry Gomez (Costa Rica)
Ayrton Andioli (Brazil)
Edgar Junior (Brazil)
Pierluigi Di Gia(Italy)
Claudio Pelosi (Italy)
Rino Cazzoformaggio (Italy)

[Igor]

Roberto Vieri - Marconi.

Agree that Ivanovic and Marusic were special.

[pierrelittbarskisdaughter]

Branko Milosevic (Croatia)
Rino Cazzoformaggio (Italy)
Paulo Roberto Cotechino (Brazil)

[semja_]

nicola berti for marconi
:D A capped Italian and he couldnt even kick a ball properly when he came here

[pierrelittbarskisdaughter]

"Donkey" Dave McPherson (Scotland) Carlton
Stuart Slater (England) Carlton

[s3tTz]

Rino Cazzoformaggio (Italy)Smartarse :D

[pierrelittbarskisdaughter]

"Donkey" Dave was actually a Rangers stalwart and got quite a few caps for Scotland too. Was on pretty big money for the old NSL(about $275,000 reportedly) but was well and truly in the twilight of his career. He was also pretty instrumental in advising his old mate Terry Butcher on the Sydney FC gig.

[SydneyDaz]

nicola berti for marconi

actually it was Northern Spirit

I had the misfortune to watch him play 6 games before he was unceremoniously dumped and told to fuck off back to which ever crack house he came from

[CC-SE Manager]

Peter Beardsley for the Melbourne Knights (someone may have already mentioned him)

[Igor]

"Donkey" Dave was actually a Rangers stalwart and got quite a few caps for Scotland too. Was on pretty big money for the old NSL(about $275,000 reportedly) but was well and truly in the twilight of his career. He was also pretty instrumental in advising his old mate Terry Butcher on the Sydney FC gig.

Slim was a very good player in his day. He was a very nice bloke as well.

He has a deal with Lou Sticca to shop players and coaches around through tribal football management which is how Butcher ended up in Sydney.

Sticca also set up tribalfootball.com and (surprise, surprise) Butcher ends up writing columns for them.

[Carlton life member]

Rino Cazzoformaggio (Italy)
Paulo Roberto Cotechino (Brazil)

and would you like a coffee after that?

[Bacardi 8]

francis awaratefe
& Paul Trimboli

[pierrelittbarskisdaughter]

Josip Biskic

[neocon]

Can anyone remember Mikey Conroy...the Carlton forward, who, if memory serves correct managed to score...hmmm lets see No goals in the old league? Well we created a whole group around him, the Mikey Conroy appreciation society, who kindly and graced us with his presence and attended one of our 5-a-side games (Albert Park) as a sign of appreciation of our game support (from our favourite beleagured star)

So what started as a pisstake cemented a friendship of sorts...anyway taking you back to our 5-a-side we ended up in a punch up with our opposition after we lost the match...phucken classic! The punch up nearly continued at the Cricketers afterwards amongst our own team becasue we disgraced ourselves in front of our hero.

So the question is, does anyone know the whereabouts of Michael Conroy - Carltons number 12?

Thats why Danny Allsop is my new hero!!!! He reminds me of myself, 80,000 shots on goal for 1 return.

[T.S.R]

Thats why Danny Allsop is my new hero!!!! He reminds me of myself, 80,000 shots on goal for 1 return.

But what a goal it was hey! ;)

[XYNO]

I had the displeasure of seeing Nicola Berti Play for inter, not much worse a thing in football you might say, but wat! there's More!! Who else was running around for inter that night???.... Paul Fucking Ince ROFL, Even the inter supporters jeered those two cunts, good thing juve were an awesome side at the time :D

Great import the glory had was Gianfranco Circati, he is now back in perth playing at coaching and a local premier league club

[neocon]

But what a goal it was hey! ;)

:D It was tap in...hit the post and trickled over... I knew then my career as a striker in football was over :D