3 Brazilians

Printable View

Show 40 post(s) from this thread on one page

03/02/2009, 1:08 PM
razor

3 Brazilians

From todays Evening Echo
�Of far more importance to the club and the fans is that we have three young Brazilians coming in tomorrow for a 10-day trial period. �We have a centre-half, a midfielder and a striker coming in from Rio de Janerio,� said Coughlan, who negotiated the deal with one of his business contacts in South America.

Doolin also has three other newcomers on trial at City. Finnish defender Mathias Kullstrom, Latvian striker Gunter Silagallis and English midfielder Levis Reid from Oxford United all trained with the first team squad.
03/02/2009, 1:11 PM
pineapple stu

Hmm. From reading Alex Bellos' book, there's a decent trade in sending crap Brazilians abroad purely because clubs love to brag about having a Brazilian on their books. Wonder if this lot'll be any good?
03/02/2009, 1:16 PM
Dodge

Pats had a couple a few years ago. One made a single appearance in the league. he's playing in serie C now apparently. The other guy just played fir the u21s

Rio Branco was the club in Sao Paulo that loaned them to us.
03/02/2009, 1:33 PM
Longfordian

We've had a few on trial over the years, we never signed any of them. As stu says, there's a lot of crap Brazilians go on trial all over Europe every year. I wouldn't get my hopes up.
03/02/2009, 1:51 PM
Ash

Theres a few of them playing for Lisnamult Celtic in the Roscommon League!
03/02/2009, 2:36 PM
pete

Remains to be seen if they will be any better than the Bulgarians from years ago. Hopefully Doolin learnt his lesson with Thiam.

Nice weather for their arrival :D
03/02/2009, 2:49 PM
Ash

Quote:

Originally Posted by pete

Remains to be seen if they will be any better than the Bulgarians from years ago. Hopefully Doolin learnt his lesson with Thiam.

Nice weather for their arrival :D

Our Hungarians didnt last long either.
03/02/2009, 3:01 PM
pineapple stu

Mullingar Town anyone?

Or was it Mullingar Athletic?
03/02/2009, 7:11 PM
Martinho II

Quote:

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Mullingar Town anyone?

Or was it Mullingar Athletic?

mullingar town stu!
03/02/2009, 7:49 PM
pineapple stu

Cheers!

At UCD, we don't know much about crap Brazilians. :cool:
03/02/2009, 8:14 PM
Scrufil

Quote:

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Cheers!

At UCD, we don't know much about crap Brazilians. :cool:

Ha! Was it Socretes ye wouldn't let play for UCD because he smoked??
03/02/2009, 9:15 PM
Pablo Escobar

Rumours around that one of these guys has played all underage levels for Brazil.
03/02/2009, 9:55 PM
Dodge

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pablo Escobar

Rumours around that one of these guys has played all underage levels for Brazil.

yeah, there's always that rumour...
04/02/2009, 7:29 AM
Pablo Escobar

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dodge

yeah, there's always that rumour...

Yes, hence me saying it, although the guy saying it is almost always right!
04/02/2009, 7:45 AM
razor

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pablo Escobar

although the guy saying it is almost always right!

Never trust a politician.
04/02/2009, 8:05 AM
Pablo Escobar

Quote:

Originally Posted by razor

Never trust a politician.

Very good. :D
04/02/2009, 9:07 AM
pineapple stu

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scrufil

Ha! Was it Socretes ye wouldn't let play for UCD because he smoked??

Never heard that one. Back when all that was supposed to have happened, smoking wouldn't have been a problem.

He's never been to Ireland, he says. The link is on the UCD wiki page. But it's still a fun story.
04/02/2009, 11:56 AM
A face

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scrufil

Ha! Was it Socretes ye wouldn't let play for UCD because he smoked??

I thought that was Shels. And he was in Dublin studying to be a doctor or something wasn't it?
04/02/2009, 12:06 PM
pineapple stu

There's lots of stories (RCSI in the Collingwood too) because, as I just noted, none of it ever happened.
04/02/2009, 12:55 PM
A face

Quote:

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

There's lots of stories (RCSI in the Collingwood too) because, as I just noted, none of it ever happened.

Where did it start from though? Did someone just make it up out of thin air '� la Herald'?

Show 40 post(s) from this thread on one page