Teams from your youth - ah, those were the days

NIMAN

I got to thinking about clubs that were famous when I really started to get into football that, although may be around now, are no longer successful clubs (at least by Europeans standards).

This would have been around the late 70s/early 80s.

Here's some for now. Just to always think they were so exotic when they were talked about on Sportsnight or in Shoot magazine.

Fortuna Dusseldorf
Carl Zeiss Jena
Saint Etienne
Dinamo Tbilisi
Bastia
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Cologne/Koln

Any other great names from these times?

Mr.Nice Guy

Steaua Bucharest came to mind for me.

Monaco and Parma were also big deals when I was young but not so much nowadays.

Dozen Wicked Words

Red Star Belgrade are the team for me, winning the European Cup against the odds, admittedly in a fairly negative way, but a wins a win. Also have a nice away shirt from their less successful phase too.

(Have a cracking Saint Etienne shirt from mid nineties too, the french certainly know how to squeeze as many sponsors in a shirt as possible)

niallo27

I remember liverpool getting beat by a decent Genoa team 2-0 when I was a young fella. I remember listening to that game on the radio for some reason.

kitakyushu

Cameroon. I was a fan straight away after seeing this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeRlJJbtdHc

The_Kew_Tour

IFK Goteborg, Red Star Belgrade, Rangers.

Mushy

Honved. My bro had some Man Utd annual thing, reviewed every match, and they were in it.

Human, how are Carl Zeiss Jenna a name for you? I only know of them now due to Enkes book.

ben.schlomo

Unterhaching, Foggia, Cremonese.

efb

Real Zaragoza ¬¬

ceegee

Liverpool

NIMAN

Mushy wrote: »

Honved. My bro had some Man Utd annual thing, reviewed every match, and they were in it.

Human, how are Carl Zeiss Jenna a name for you? I only know of them now due to Enkes book.

No idea, I always remember their name from my younger days. They were East German weren't they? They must have been in European competition back in the day.

NIMAN

niallo27 wrote: »

I remember liverpool getting beat by a decent Genoa team 2-0 when I was a young fella. I remember listening to that game on the radio for some reason.

I remember that game well, Branco scored.

And the amazing big flag the Genoa fans had that basically covered one full side of the pitch. It was unfurled behind the teams as they lined up and then the 'pool team turned to applaud and you could see the shock on some of their faces at this huge banner.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruISFobstto

Check out 1:40 in this clip to see the huge banner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRXiwFgRl1Y

Oat23

NIMAN wrote: »

No idea, I always remember their name from my younger days. They were East German weren't they? They must have been in European competition back in the day.

Speaking of Jena, they have my support this year. They were relegated into the Regionalliga Northeast and will be the main challengers to the Red Bull franchise for a spot in the playoffs.

Go on boys, f*ck red bull

RikkFlair

Rotor Volgograd. Legia Warsaw. Pecsi Munkas.

G.K.

This is no joke, but Manchester United. Despite being a Leeds fan from birth (Essentially), I did follow United quite a bit in my childhood at around the time of Rio's drugs ban. It's lapsed now - they're just a club I know quite a bit about.

If anything, it seems I'm becoming a Liverpool fan instead, as aaron will tell us.

EdenHazard

Deportivo and Leeds!

born2bwild

Nottingham Forest.

Chucky the tree

kitakyushu wrote: »

Cameroon. I was a fan straight away after seeing this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeRlJJbtdHc

Interesting to see players harassed referee 22 years ago. The way people go on I thought football pre 2000s was full of honest pros who'd never do that kind of thing.

NIMAN

To be fair their teammate was just the victim of a serious assault!!

NIMAN

To be fair some of the names on here aren't really fitting the criteria I was hoping to get.

I mean Depor and Leeds are still very much on the go and still relatively big clubs. I'm talking more about ones that were big but which have more or less faded into obscurity (I know some will say Leeds have!).

mike65

Nottingham Forest (Cloughie era), Borrussia Monchengladbach (through whistling MW at night), Red Star Belgrade (just a cool name). Dynamo Kiev back when Valeriy Lobanovskyi was the Supreme Leader.

born2bwild

Aston Villa.

kitakyushu

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Interesting to see players harassed referee 22 years ago. The way people go on I thought football pre 2000s was full of honest pros who'd never do that kind of thing.

In fairness I think the British game at least may have have been more noble back in those days. Certainly I can recall a time when British teams looked down on foreign sides who had the gaul to "dive" etc. Heaven forbid! Nowadays they're just as bad at it (and the other negative things) as anyone else.

EdenHazard

NIMAN wrote: »

To be fair some of the names on here aren't really fitting the criteria I was hoping to get.

I mean Depor and Leeds are still very much on the go and still relatively big clubs. I'm talking more about ones that were big but which have more or less faded into obscurity (I know some will say Leeds have!).

In fairness Deportivo were just relegated season before last and haven't been in CL for years now despite being a pretty decent European team in the early 2000's. Monaco could be another one, from (shock) European finalists to Ligue 2.

I mean ha how far does the team have to fall into obscurity. Leeds only seem 'still big' because in Ireland we hear so much of the lower leagues in England.

Jayob10

niallo27 wrote: »

I remember liverpool getting beat by a decent Genoa team 2-0 when I was a young fella. I remember listening to that game on the radio for some reason.

Remember Tomáš Skuhravý playing and thinking "the big boys are in town".

Was of the age to follow Liverpool just as the mantle began to slip, tales of European glory were a distant memory and playing the likes of Strasbourg in 1997 (and Celta Vigo in 1998) were my idea of games against European heavyweights

NIMAN

OK ok, post who ever you want.

I was hinting more ones from the distant past of the 70s and 80s, not ones which were in CL Finals in the mid2000s (Monaco).

Depor are playing their footy along side Real Madrid and Barca these days.

EdenHazard

Well my youth was just then but I get your point

Lawrence1895

Oatesy23 wrote: »

Speaking of Jena, they have my support this year. They were relegated into the Regionalliga Northeast and will be the main challengers to the Red Bull franchise for a spot in the playoffs.

Go on boys, f*ck red bull

No modern plastic club shall ever beat tradition

Anyway, for me it is Borussia Dortmund (it's just my home town), Liverpool (Kenny Dalglish was my childhood idol as a player) and Celtic, because Borussia Dortmund played them in the UEFA Cup in the late 80s and both sets of supporters had a great party in Dortmund's city centre.

EdenHazard

Lars1916 wrote: »

No modern plastic club shall ever beat tradition

Anyway, for me it is Borussia Dortmund (it's just my home town), Liverpool (Kenny Dalglish was my childhood idol as a player) and Celtic, because Borussia Dortmund played them in the UEFA Cup in the late 80s and both sets of supporters had a great party in Dortmund's city centre.

I want RB to do well

NIMAN

I think Liverpool and Celtic are 2 perfect examples of people ruining my little game!


OP - "I got to thinking about clubs that were famous when I really started to get into football that, although may be around now, are no longer successful clubs (at least by Europeans standards)"

People will be saying AC Milan next

EdenHazard

I think people aren't reading your op and are just posting the teams that remind them of their youth

kitakyushu

How about Videoton? Two UEFA Cup finals in the 80's and are now in the Hungarian 2nd division.

(never saw them myself)

3hn2givr7mx1sc

EdenHazard wrote: »

I want RB to do well

Of course you do.

EdenHazard

Explain....

Lawrence1895

EdenHazard wrote: »

I want RB to do well

Which one? Salzburg or Leipzig?

Please explain

NIMAN

Were Videoton mentioned in last weeks Europa League or did I imagine it?

kitakyushu

Lars1916 wrote: »

Which one? Salzburg or Leipzig?

... or New Jersey New York?

Iron Hide

kitakyushu wrote: »

How about Videoton? Two UEFA Cup finals in the 80's and are now in the Hungarian 2nd division.

(never saw them myself)

One UEFA cup final and Hungarian league winners a season or two ago maybe?

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St James' Gate

kitakyushu

Iron Hide wrote: »

One UEFA cup final and Hungarian league winners a season or two ago maybe?

Many apologies to Videoton fans out there.

Iron Hide

One I remember was LKS Lodz, the crowd United beat in the qualifying round of the Champs leagues during the treble year.. Probably coz it was one of the first iron curtain teams i'd heard of aside from Red Star

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Iron Hide wrote: »

Probably coz it was one of the first iron curtain teams i'd heard of aside from Red Star

You'd never even heard of Dynamo Kiev? Any of the Moscow teams? "Bigger" polish teams than Lodz like Legia Warsaw or Lech Poznan?

What?

kitakyushu

Ipswich Town?

ya know? Exotic Ipswich and all that.

NIMAN

kitakyushu wrote: »

Ipswich Town?

Yeah a good one, I remember them being great in Europe and very entertaining. Now look at them!

Iron Hide

Des wrote: »

You'd never even heard of Dynamo Kiev? Any of the Moscow teams? "Bigger" polish teams than Lodz like Legia Warsaw or Lech Poznan?

What?

Well I was 7 years old in 1998....

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Iron Hide wrote: »

Well I was 7 in 1998....

Well then, there was no such thing as an iron curtain in your lifetime.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

NIMAN wrote: »

I got to thinking about clubs that were famous when I really started to get into football that, although may be around now, are no longer successful clubs (at least by Europeans standards).

This would have been around the late 70s/early 80s.

Here's some for now. Just to always think they were so exotic when they were talked about on Sportsnight or in Shoot magazine.

Fortuna Dusseldorf
Carl Zeiss Jena
Saint Etienne
Dinamo Tbilisi
Bastia
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Cologne/Koln

Any other great names from these times?

Dusseldorf just got promoted, I'll have you know!!

How about Nottingham Forrest?

Iron Hide

Des wrote: »

Well then, there was no such thing as an iron curtain in your lifetime.

Figure of speech bro..

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Oatesy23 wrote: »

Speaking of Jena, they have my support this year. They were relegated into the Regionalliga Northeast and will be the main challengers to the Red Bull franchise for a spot in the playoffs.

Go on boys, f*ck red bull

Rasen Ballsport Leipzig, please. (They're not allowed to name a football club after a sponsor under German FA rules, or something like that).

PhlegmyMoses

Used to love Montpellier when I was a kid because of some shocking early 90s, pre-FIFA football game that had a load of European teams in it. They were, in my eyes, the best team in it.

Crann na Beatha

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