Teams from your youth - ah, those were the days

darced

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eugeneious

Foggia! Under Zemen! They were Italy's 'crazy gang'!

Also Rapid Wien come to mind as well...

Blatter

Real Sociedad from 2002/2003!

Maybe not successful as such, but they came close and were class. Xabi Alonso, Karpin, de Pedro, Kovacevic, Nihat etc.

NIMAN

Phoenix wrote: »

Torino

Didn't they have the worlds most expensive player once?

Lentini.

Think he cost £12million.

Edit: just googled him. And apparently it was them who sold him to Milan for £13million.

Winston Payne

Sturm Graz, Grasshopper Zurich, IFK Goteborg, Alaves, Nice et Nancy, Kaiserslautern. "Where are they dad? :eek:"

Skid

I always had visions of the Lokomotiv Leipzig players working for the East German equivalent of C.I.E., driving Trains when they weren't playing football. Sadly, they dropped the Lokomotiv name after re-unification.

The_Kew_Tour

Home Farm, Sporting Fingal, Galway United, Monaghan United, Cobh Ramblers, Dublin City






Cork City

grenache

NIMAN wrote: »

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

Indeed they were. I know because I'd never heard of the club before and googled them.

Luton Town is another one. Were a comfortable first division side for most of the 80s and into early 90s. Kenilworth Road had a plastic pitch which they used to their advantage. Got to two successive League Cup finals - shocked Arsenal in '88 but lost to Forest the next year.

Currently seeking promotion back from non league, having been in The Championship only 7 years ago.

kksaints

Winston Payne wrote: »

Sturm Graz, Grasshopper Zurich, IFK Goteborg, Alaves, Nice et Nancy, Kaiserslautern. "Where are they dad? :eek:"

Austrian Bundesliga winners in 2011. Kaiserslautern are in the German 2nd division.

For me Coventry City and Sheffield Wednesday would be teams who have faded.

padd b1975

Hamburg, USSR (sponsored by CCCP) and EMFA.

Father Damo

Cant believe nobody has mentioned Ajax. From one of the top teams in Europe/ CL in much of the 90s to being a top team in a decent but ultimately feeder league, and otherwise merely a European group stage filler that few of the big boys lose too much sleep over (barring City lately of course).

Still produces good players who are snatched to Germany and England as soon as their class becomes apparent, I doubt it will ever reach its old heights.

IvySlayer

Preston North End, when they did the double!!

G.K.

G.K. wrote: »

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.

It seems I misunderstood this thread's premise.

Kerrydude1981

Sampdoria had a class team in the early 90s,lost to Barca in the 92 European Cup Final,Rangers coming very close to making the final of the Champions League in 93,just lost out by a point in the group stage

SEPT 23 1989

The USSR

St Francis

Kerrydude1981

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

The USSR

St Francis

St Francis,ya remember them making the FAI Cup final in the early 90s

Ashtown Villa also pulled off a few shocks in the FAI Cup during that time

Nuri Sahin

It can be argued by some people possibly, but I'd include Ajax and Feyenoord.

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

Sampdoria had a class team in the early 90s,lost to Barca in the 92 European Cup Final,Rangers coming very close to making the final of the Champions League in 93,just lost out by a point in the group stage

Yup, Sampdoria for me as well. First talk of anything European football related was about them I vaguely remember. They were decent for a couple of years recently it must be said. Cassano and Pazzini were a fantastic duo for them.

Chancer3001

rc lens. i even had their jersey, massived crazy red and yellow stripes. horrible thing.

in fifa they used to have vladmir smicer and a striker called Drobnjak who was unreal. id get them every time, cheap but class.

one of them did the usual champ manager thing and went and became famous and won the champs league with liverpool.

the other guy.....not so much

SEPT 23 1989

Kerrydude1981 wrote: »

St Francis,ya remember them making the FAI Cup final in the early 90s

Ashtown Villa also pulled off a few shocks in the FAI Cup during that time

Yeah 1990 i was at the final

Kerrydude1981

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Yeah 1990 i was at the final

Must have been one of the first finals to be played at Lansdowne Road

EdenHazard

Looking on Wiki at the old CL, no wonder nobody teams did well, sure Shels were about 3 rounds off making a final. I guess you could argue more elite level but nah I think the sheer number of matches in CL today make it far more prestigous than before.

grenache

padd b1975 wrote: »

Hamburg, USSR (sponsored by CCCP)

I assume you jest

kincsem

Ajax
St Etienne
Aberdeen

Zebra3

Anderlecht and Standard Liege.

Belgian league was strong enough back then.

Feyenoord too. They had a little rivalry with a certain English club back in the day.

Benimar

Carl Zeiss Jena - think its to do with a CWC QF against Newport County in the early 80s. S4C used to show the Welsh teams in Europe.
IFK Goteborg
Dynamo Tblisi - Won UEFA Cup in 1981 and played Waterford in an earlier round
CSKA Sofia
Dundee United - a UEFA Cup final and European Cup semi appearance in the 80s
Mechelen

Lawrence1895

Zebra3 wrote: »

Anderlecht and Standard Liege.

Belgian league was strong enough back then.

Feyenoord too. They had a little rivalry with a certain English club back in the day.

Not to mention Bruges. Borussia Dortmund played them in the UEFA Cup 1987/88. First leg in Dortmund 3:0, being hammered 5:0 in Belgium :mad:

grenache

Zebra3 wrote: »

Anderlecht and Standard Liege.

Belgian league was strong enough

Easy for them when they were buying referees.

The_Kew_Tour

grenache wrote: »

Easy for them when they were buying referees.

I was wondering how long it would take you.;)

eagle eye

Cork Hibs and Cork Celtic. Carl Zeiss Jena and FC Madgeburg are two east german teams I remember.

I remember listening to the away leg of the European Cup final on the radio in 1973 on BBC Radio(possibly 5 but not sure) which was Liverpool against Borussia Monchengladbach. They were such a powerhouse all through the 70s along with Liverpool but then they just disappeared altogether from the European scene.

Schwiiing

Lazio. Deportiva La Coruna. PSV Eindhoven. Leeds

Zebra3

Benimar wrote: »

Carl Zeiss Jena - think its to do with a CWC QF against Newport County in the early 80s.

Highlights from that game does be on ESPN Classic every so often.

Can't believe nobody has mentioned the Pride of the GDR, Berliner FC Dynamo. :pac:

Also, Newcastle United. Anyone remmeber them playing in the League of Ireland?

NIMAN

Father Damo wrote: »

Cant believe nobody has mentioned Ajax. From one of the top teams in Europe/ CL in much of the 90s to being a top team in a decent but ultimately feeder league, and otherwise merely a European group stage filler that few of the big boys lose too much sleep over (barring City lately of course).

Still produces good players who are snatched to Germany and England as soon as their class becomes apparent, I doubt it will ever reach its old heights.

Eh? Not in the spirit of the thread.

Did you not see them beat outclass Man City in the CL the other night? OK so they are not the force they once were, but you could hardly say that they are no longer a big name.

NIMAN

I have memories of Dinamo Tbilisi stuffing the great Liverpool 4-1 one night.

Do I remember correctly?

Edit: it appears from a Google search it was 3-0, 4-2 on agg.

Edit: appears it was West Ham they beat 4-1 once.

Kerrydude1981

Just remembered Woking had a few good FA Cup runs in the 90s,pulled off a few shocks.

Zebra3

NIMAN wrote: »

Eh? Not in the spirit of the thread.

Did you not see them beat outclass Man City in the CL the other night? OK so they are not the force they once were, but you could hardly say that they are no longer a big name.

Yeah, Man City were meant to wipe the floor with Ajax instead it was the other way around.




Boom! Boom!

NIMAN

Zebra3 wrote: »

Highlights from that game does be on ESPN Classic every so often.

Can't believe nobody has mentioned the Pride of the GDR, Berliner FC Dynamo. :pac:

Also, Newcastle United. Anyone remmeber them playing in the League of Ireland?

Was that not Newcastle West?

Remember EMFA well, watched them at the Brandywell a few times.

greendom

eagle eye wrote: »

Cork Hibs and Cork Celtic. Carl Zeiss Jena and FC Madgeburg are two east german teams I remember.

I remember listening to the away leg of the European Cup final on the radio in 1973 on BBC Radio(possibly 5 but not sure) which was Liverpool against Borussia Monchengladbach. They were such a powerhouse all through the 70s along with Liverpool but then they just disappeared altogether from the European scene.

Would have been Radio 2 - 5 didn't start until the 90s. Football had to share with Wogan and The Organist Entertains back then.

Zebra3

NIMAN wrote: »

Was that not Newcastle West?

Remember EMFA well, watched them at the Brandywell a few times.

They were known as Newcastle United for their first season in the LoI before they changed their name to Newcastlewest.

grenache

Wimbledon.

greendom

Blyth Spartans - Sutton United

Paddycrumlinman

I remember Norwich having a good run back in the 90's beatiing Bayern Munich 2-1.

Father Damo

NIMAN wrote: »

Eh? Not in the spirit of the thread.

Did you not see them beat outclass Man City in the CL the other night? OK so they are not the force they once were, but you could hardly say that they are no longer a big name.

Hardly (and I even mentioned City!)

Compared to the 90s they are, generally, a filler team in European competitions. Can you see them reaching a quarter or semi final of the CL within three years? Victim of their own fine youth system basically, as soon as they gel great players they are swiped by England, Spain and Germany. Until they get a megabucks Arab investor this will always be the case.

K-9

Thurles Town was one of the first members of the LoI First Division.

St. Etienne was a big power in the 70's, Platini played for them, never hear much about them these days.

Jimmy Iovine

Kilkenny City ha

RikkFlair

Zebra3 wrote: »

They were known as Newcastle United for their first season in the LoI before they changed their name to Newcastlewest.

Wow, as a west Limerick man I'd forgotten all about that. Vague memories of them competing in the 1st Division.

As for their wiki entry check out some of the notable former players :pac:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastlewest_F.C.

SEPT 23 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMjsDNJAn2U

bullpost

Dukla Prague

aidan24326

kitakyushu wrote: »

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

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

Thanks for posting that one, had forgotten about that. Jesus the Cameroon lads could nearly have been charged with attempted murder for that one! Two of them have a wild swing at him before the third fella nearly breaks him in half!

StephenHendry

wimbledon late 80s
the great ac milan team from 89 to 93

StephenHendry

RikkFlair wrote: »

Wow, as a west Limerick man I'd forgotten all about that. Vague memories of them competing in the 1st Division.

As for their wiki entry check out some of the notable former players :pac:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastlewest_F.C.

brilliant lad, that list had me in bits as well