What ever happened to Hakan Sukur?

Whatever Happened to: Davor uker

Davor uker [ˈdaʋɔr ˈʃukɛr] (born January 1, 1968) is a former Croatian footballer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest strikers in the 1990s.

The crowning moment of his career was the 1998 World Cup in France, where he became the top goalscorer and won the Golden Boot by scoring 6 goals in 7 matches, leading the Croatian national team to a surprising third-place finish in their first World Cup appearance. He is also the Croatian national team's all-time goalscoring leader with 45 goals.


Club career

Early years
uker began playing football in his home town of Osijek with the club NK Osijek, where he played for the first team between 1984 and 1989. He then moved to Dinamo Zagreb, where he played in the following two seasons and scored 34 goals in 60 Yugoslav First League matches, impressing so much that he earned his first call-up to the Yugoslav national team as well as the attention of foreign clubs. In 1991, he moved to Spanish side Sevilla FC.


Career in Spain



Moving to England



Last two seasons in Germany



International career



Post-career honours and activities
Towards the end of his playing career, uker opened his own football school, the Davor uker Soccer Academy, with training camps in the Croatian capital city of Zagreb as well as a couple of other cities.

In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, uker was selected as the Golden Player of Croatia by the Croatian Football Federation as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years. In March 2004, he was named by Pelé as one of the 125 greatest living footballers and was the only Croatian player to be added to the list.

http://www.sukeracademy.com/

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Added on April 2, 2007, 9:28 amWhatever Happened to: Hakan Şükür

Hakan Şükür, (born on September 1, 1971 in Adapazarı, Sakarya, Turkey to Albanian parents[2] immigrants from Kosovo), is a Turkish footballer playing the striker position. He has received the nickname "King (Kral)" from his admirers.

Along with then team-mate Gheorghe Hagi, he was a member of the UEFA Cup-winning Galatasaray side of 2000. He is remembered by supporters for his scoring in European competition that year, including his superb goals against Leeds United, one in which he danced past three of their defenders to score and help send his team to the final. He is also remembered for his penalty in Galatasaray's penalty shoot-out victory over Arsenal F.C. in the final.

Hakan currently plays for the Turkish club Galatasaray SK, having spent eight seasons with them in the 1990s. In 2000, he moved to Inter Milan (Italy) then spent short spells at Parma (Italy) and Blackburn Rovers (England) before rejoining Galatasaray SK in 2003.

In the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Şükür's national team went all the way to the semifinals even though he was hopelessly out of form for most of the tournament. He finally showed a glimpse of his talent when, in the third-place game against South Korea, he scored the fastest goal ever in a World Cup finals match. İlhan Mansız forced a Korean defender into a blunder immediately off the opening kickoff, Şükür pounced on the free ball and put the ball into the Korean net after only 10.8 seconds. [3]

Hakan was capped for the 100th time in a 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Ukraine. He is the third Turkish player, after Bülent Korkmaz and Rüştü Reçber, to receive this honor.All together Hakan has scored 218 Galatasaray SK goals.

Hakan's fame in Turkey is such that his 2002 wedding was televised live.

Career achievements
Multiple Turkish Premier Super League champion, Turkish Cup winner and top goalscorer.
Received best scorer of the World award by FIFA 1998.
2000 UEFA Cup winner.
2002 FIFA World Cup, achieved third place with the Turkish national football team.
Three times league top scorer (1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999)
Second in the top goal scorers list in Turkish Superlig history. Hakan scored 238 goals in his career, Tanju Çolak holds the title with 240 goals.
Has been capped 107 times for the Turkish national football team.
Scored the fastest goal ever in World Cup history (10.8 seconds) in 2002.
Most successful player on the Turkish national team (50 goals in 107 international matches).
Scored 38 goals in 34 matches in his best season.
In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Turkey by the Turkish Football Federation as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years. [4]
He is the leading active international goal scorer in Europe with 50 international goals in 107 matches



This post has been edited by zenix: Apr 2 2007, 09:28 AM

what ever happen to Gustavo Poyet?

Whatever Happened to: Gustavo Poyet

Gustavo Augusto Poyet Domínguez (born November 15, 1967 in Montevideo, Uruguay) was a footballer and is currently assistant manager at Leeds United. His teams included Real Zaragoza, Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur.

A powerful and prolific goalscoring midfielder, Poyet moved to Zaragoza in 1990. His team won the Copa del Rey in 1994 and the Cup Winners' Cup a year later, beating Arsenal in the final. He captained the team in that final and became Zaragoza's longest-serving foreign player. He scored an impressive 60 goals in 240 games for the club. Poyet joined Chelsea on a free transfer in June 1997.



Honours
1994 Spanish Copa del Rey - Real Zaragoza
1995 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup - Real Zaragoza
1995 Copa América - Uruguay
1998 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup - Chelsea
1998 European Super Cup - Chelsea
2000 English FA Cup - Chelsea

wat happen to ginola?

I also wanted to ask what happen to Ahn Jung-Hwan long time didn't hear about his things lioa...... and also Junichi Inamoto and also Ali-aldae(dunno how to spell)

what happened to our own akmal rizal and titus james?

man united got a lot missing in action youth...

greening, chadwick, mark wilson....

Whatever Happened to: David Ginola

David Ginola (born January 25, 1967) is a former French international football player and also a model.


Career
Born in Gassin (south-eastern France), Ginola played at club level for Toulon (1985-88), Racing Club Paris (1988-90), Brest (1990-92), Paris Saint-Germain (1992-95), Newcastle United (1995-97), Tottenham Hotspur (1997-2000), Aston Villa (2001-02) and Everton (2002). In 1999, he was named PFA Players' Player of the Year and PFA Players' Player of the Year, while playing for Tottenham Hotspur. He also won his one English domestic trophy with Spurs, the 1999 League Cup.

David Ginola is considered by many in the English Football world as one of the best wingers of all time due to his "magical" touch on the ball and his ability to get past players from any type of position and then manage to score a goal. His ability to do that was shown in games for Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United, with his most memorable goal in Newcastle's stunning 5-0 win over Premier League giants Manchester United in 1996.

Ginola's reputation as a handsome Gallic maverick was enhanced during his time in England when he starred in a commercial for L'Oreal hair products, and many still remember the company's slogan "Because I'm worth it" being uttered in Ginola's distinctive French accent.


International
Although Ginola was a very creative attacking player, he did not see much time with the French national team, having been capped only 17 times in his career. Ginola was made a scapegoat for France's failure to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup finals, when he gifted the ball to Bulgaria's Emil Kostadinov, who scored the goal that put France out. The succeeding coach, Aimé Jacquet, did not select Ginola for any of the subsequent major tournaments.


Trivia
Ginola regularly appeared in the French education program, Vingt Minutes.
He appeared in Channel 4's reality show, Coach Trip where he showed the contestants around his home town of Sainte-Maxime and played football with them on the beach.
Ginola is on the cover art of the game FIFA '97.

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Added on April 2, 2007, 1:57 pmWhatever Happened to: Ahn Jung-Hwan

Ahn Jung-Hwan (born January 27, 1976 in Paju, Gyeonggi) is a South Korean football player; he made world headlines by scoring the winning golden goal for Korea against Italy in the 2002 World Cup second round and sending Korea into the quarterfinals.

At the time, Ahn was on loan at Italian league side Perugia. His extra-time header dumped the three-time champions from the World Cup. The next day, Perugia owner Luciano Gaucci was quoted by the Italian daily La Gazzetta dello Sport as saying, "I am not going to pay the salary of a guy who has ruined Italian soccer."

Perugia later took back what it said, and offered to outright buy Ahn's contract. But Ahn rejected it, saying "I will no longer discuss my transfer to Perugia, which attacked my character instead of congratulating me for a goal in the World Cup."

Ahn then attempted to secure a permanent move to a European club but failed, and returned to Asia, joining the J. League with Shimizu S-Pulse. After one season there, he moved to another J-League team, Yokohama F Marinos. After this successful spell in Japan, he returned to Europe to play for French team FC Metz in July 2005.

Prior to moving to Europe, Ahn played in the K-League with Daewoo Royals, now known as Busan I'Park.

On the 16th of January 2006 Ahn was invited to train with Blackburn Rovers but twice failed to show up.

In February 2006 he secured a 17-month deal with MSV Duisburg in Germany. However, the German club was relegated from the Bundesliga and Ahn failed to move Hearts of SPL or several other European teams.[1] [2]. He has since been released by MSV.

Ahn failed in 2006 to find another team in Europe, and returned to one of the top clubs in Asia, Suwon Samsung Bluewings with one-year contract since January 2007.

On March 14, 2007, Ahn Jung Hwan scored his first goal of the season against Daejeon Citizen at the 18th minute of the first half with a pass from Lee Kwan-Woo. He went on to score a second goal in the 39th minute with a 30 yard pass from Lee. In the 82nd minute, Ahn Jung Hwan scored a hat trick after a through pass from Nadson Rodrigues de Souza. This was Ahn Jung-Hwan's third game of the season, and the Bluewings won the match 4:0 with a goal from Nadson. [3]

Ahn was quoted after the match. "I felt good before the game and I knew I was ready. It feels wonderful to have a great game and make the Suwon fans happy."

Ahn is married to a former Miss Korea, Lee Hye-Won.


Facts
Ahn Jung-Hwan is sometimes called "the Lord of the Ring" by Korean fans. He got this nickname by kissing his wedding ring after every goal he scores.

During the 2002 FIFA World Cup Ahn scored the tying goal late in Korea's match with the USA. After scoring the goal he performed a goal celebration with his teammates, mimicking the movements of a speed skater. Six months earlier, during the 2002 Winter Olympics a Korean speedskater, Kim Dong-Sung was questionably disqualified for "cross tracking" American skater Apolo Anton Ohno in their 1500 m short track event. Because of the disqualification, Ohno won the gold medal even though Kim passed the finish line first. Ahn's celebration was a form of protest against the ISU's decision, which many Koreans felt was favoritism towards the USA.

He was selected for Korea's 2006 FIFA World Cup squad in Germany, and came off the bench to score the winner in Korea's 2-1 opening match win over Togo, after coming from a goal down at halftime. He is Asia's career leader in goals scored in the World Cup with three.

After the 2006 World Cup, new Korea Republic manager Pim Verbeek announced his new 23-man roster for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup. Ahn was not announced to be on the team. Neither were former teammates in the 2006 World Cup, Park Chu-Young and Lee Woon-Jae. Verbeek then said that his decision for Ahn to not be on the Korea Republic roster was not personal. And also said Ahn would not return to the team as long as he is clubless (but was signed by the Suwon Samsung Bluewings early January 2007).

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Added on April 2, 2007, 2:02 pmWhatever Happened to: Akmal Rizal Ahmad Rakhli

Akmal Rizal Ahmad Rakhli (born on December 12, 1981) is a Malaysian footballer who is a striker for Selangor FA. He is a member of the Malaysian national team and also has played for the Malaysian Pre-Olympic squad. He is well known for his finishing ability. Apart from that, he is one of the first batch of Malaysians to train overseas.

The public started to notice him when he played in the U-14 Malaysia football team. Since then, he went a step further and trained at RC Strasbourg, often loaned to their sister club FCSR Haguenau. After unable to tie a contract with RC Strasbourg, he returned home to play for his hometown club, Kedah FA. He became an instant hit with the local fans and also the envy of other clubs in the M-League. But, towards the end of his career with Kedah FA, he had been plagued with knee injuries. In December 2006, he signed for Selangor FA and made a couple of appearances as a substitute since recovering from his injury. He scored his first goal for Selangor FA in the 1-2 Malaysia Cup match loss against Melaka TMFC on 17 March 2007.

He represented Malaysia for the 2003 SEA Games in Hanoi, Vietnam, the Asia English Premier League Cup and also in the 2002 Tiger Cup in Thailand, helping Malaysia to a fourth place finish.

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Added on April 2, 2007, 2:05 pmWhatever Happened to: Mark Wilson



This post has been edited by zenix: Apr 2 2007, 02:05 PM

Haha..I really wanna know what happen to Titus..

What ever happen to Stig Inge Bjornebye ?

Dublin's still playing in the Championship. Think I saw him in an FA Cup fixture.

Greening has been a regular fixture with West Brom. Chadwick was playing for some Championship side last I heard of him. Don't know about Wilson.

our x epl favourite goalie barthez now playing for nantes at 36 years old...

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Added on April 3, 2007, 4:04 pmsack by perugia after score against italy in 2002...

then go to j league....now dunno where d

This post has been edited by Ken: Apr 3 2007, 04:04 PM

wat happened to the guy that roy keane tackle until he canot play football? his name Inge Haaland something like that

whatever happened to Hristov Stoichkov of Bulgaria and Roberto Baggio of Italia?

already replied

already replied

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Added on April 4, 2007, 10:33 amName : Titus James Palani
Age : 18
Position : Left Wing, midfielder.
Club : AC Villenoy in Meaux, France.

Thats all I know.
I think he is back in Malaysia now.

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Added on April 4, 2007, 10:39 amWhatever Happened to: Stig Inge Bjørnebye

Stig Inge Bjørnebye (born December 11, 1969 in Elverum) was a Norwegian soccer player who made a name for himself at Liverpool. He mostly played left back both in the club and in the national team. In the national team he was well known for his long passes to striker Jostein Flo. He also set up Michael Owen for his first goal in a 2-1 defeat to Wimbledon.

For Norway, Bjørnebye was capped 75 times after making his international debut against Austria in 1989. He played for his country at the 1994 and 1998 FIFA World Cup, as well as Euro 2000. Other than Liverpool, he also played for Strømmen, Kongsvinger, Rosenborg, Brøndby and Blackburn Rovers.

Bjørnebye was for a period the assistant manager in the Norwegian national team under Åge Hareide. He is also one of the owners of Nybergsund I.L. Now he is head coach for I.K. Start.

Honours As Player
1992 Norwegian League Champions with Rosenborg B.K.
1992 Norwegian Cup with Rosenborg B.K.
1994 Norwegian League Champions with Rosenborg B.K.
1994/95 League Cup with Liverpool FC
2001/02 League Cup with Blackburn Rovers

This post has been edited by zenix: Apr 4 2007, 10:39 AM

Alfie Haaland. He is still playing unless I'm mistaken. Keano admitted to injuring him on purpose for a previous challenge from another game but it didn't end his career.

Huh?i read in news b4 that his career has ended..

Whatever Happened to: Alf-Inge Haaland

Alf-Inge Rasdal "Alfie" Haaland (born 23 November 1972 in Stavanger, Norway) is a former football player. He played his club football for Bryne F.K., and later played for Nottingham Forest F.C., Leeds United F.C. and Manchester City F.C.. He stands at 5'10' (178 cm), and played in midfield. Haaland won 34 caps for Norway, and is one of six players who have played for the Norwegian national team without ever playing in the domestic top division. Haaland is often remembered for his "feud" with Roy Keane. In 1997, after Haaland caught Keane above the knee in a hard tackle Keane attempted to foul Haaland and in the process injured his cruciate ligament.

As Keane lay prone on the ground, Haaland taunted him by implying that Keane deserved the injury as punishment for his reckless tackle. Three and a half years later, in 2001, the pair played their first game against one-another since Keane's injury. During the game Keane made a knee-high tackle on Haaland, according to his biography, out of vengeance. Keane was sent-off as a result and incurred a 5 game suspension and a £150,000 fine.

Haaland retired through injury in 2002. It was said on Haaland's web site that it was not as a result of Roy Keane's mischief for which Keane could have been terminated from football permanently and/or prosecuted and sued given its result on Haaland's livelihood. (According to the website the injury that ended Haaland's career was in his other knee, not the one that got hit in the Keane tackle).

http://www.icons.com/haaland/

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Added on April 5, 2007, 10:11 amWhatever Happened to: Hristo Stoichkov

Hristo Stoichkov (Bulgarian: Христо Стоичков) (born February 8, 1966, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria) is a football manager and former striker who was a member of the Bulgaria national team that finished fourth at the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Apart from his footballing talent, he was notable for his strong on-pitch temper. He was honoured as European Footballer of the Year in 1994. He was named by Pelé as one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers at a FIFA Awards Ceremony in 2004.

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Club career


National team


Honours

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In November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee, he was selected as the Golden Player of Bulgaria by the Bulgarian Football Union as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years

Coaching career


This post has been edited by zenix: Apr 5 2007, 10:24 AM

whatever happen to ivan zamorano?