I recently came across a 5 year old team sheet for a pre-season friendly I went to between Dover Athletic and CAFC and I decided to look into how the players who turned out for us in that game had progressed with their careers. The date of the game was 23rd July 2008 and these are as far as I could find out where they are in 2013.
1 Rob Elliot Newcastle
2 Yassin Moutaouakil Portsmouth
3 Grant Basey Wycombe Wanderers
4 Josh Wright Millwall
5 Majid Boughera Lekhwiya (Qatar)
6 John Fortune Chatham Town ? / Dag & Redbridge ?
7 Lloyd Sam New York Red Bulls
8 Dean Sinclair Sutton Utd
9 Stuart Fleetwood Luton Town
10 Chris Dickson Shanghai East Asia
11 Rashid Jussuff AFC Wimbledon
12 Aswad Thomas Grimsby Town
14 Mikel Jensen IF Brommapojkarna ( ret 2011 )
15 Kevin Tunani FC Brussels ( Belg 2nd Div )
16 Callum Christie (GK) Somewhere in America
17 Ben Godfrey Lewes (Ryman Prem )
18 Sam Long Dover Athletic
19 Yodo Mambo Shrewsbury
Anyone know of any players who turned out in pre-season games then left us but went on to huge fame and fortune with other clubs ?
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I'm getting confused now.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Worner
Few more I forget were even with us when looking through the old squad lists. Remember Wade Small and Bally Smart?
http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/2010-2011/flone/charlton.htm
As for Ross Worner; from his Wiki page, quote from Holdsworth the Aldershot boss where he went after us...
“I’m delighted Ross has signed a two-year agreement with us. He has got a big future in football if he carries on the way he is going. I liken him, in all seriousness, to Joe Hart a few years ago, he’s got a great future.[Goalkeeping coach] Ashley Bayes has been brilliant with him as he has with Jamie Young, Jordan Clement and the other keepers we’ve had with us this season. Ross needs pushing and occasionally needs grounding and Ashley does that really well.”
—Holdsworth on Worner.[10]
I think we were interested in offering him something too, never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Do you mean players who left that season without playing for us? Because there are plenty of players who played for us including in pre season who are doing pretty well...
I'm sure I remember someone posted on here about how he was arrested in America for something, mugshot was posted as well!
cheers
Ye, but he got injured, needed an operation (which apparently the club aid for) and then he missed a bit of football and came back at a lower level.
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Remember this guy?
Remember this guy? </blockquote>
Yep,I remember him up at Bolton away Burnden Park when were getting thumped
and Mcginley got a hat-trick he came on as a sub.
Had high hopes for Emeka Ifejiagwa, but according to his Wikipedia page his entire football career consisted of 28 games across about 11 years.
Cristian Bolanos looked pretty good prior to having his work permit turned down.