Who am I?

[Toby]

Dan Petrescu

Correct. He was briefly at Southampton after Bradford, Jim.

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[SvN]

Smiffy must have one hell of a commute.

[Shindig]

He's a bus driver.

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[Toby]

Paulo Wanchope.

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[Toby]

You just can't resist the giveaway puns.

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[SvN]

To have so few caps but be so old means it must be a backup or third choice goalkeeper, I'd have thought.

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[SvN]

Yeah of course. I doubt a reserve keeper at club level would have 500 apps.

[Gray Fox]

So you're looking at someone like Valdes, stuck behind a better keeper internationally, but good enough not to be replaced at club level. Current club means it's not actually Valdes.

Sense tells me he must be something like Italian, stuck behind Buffon for eternity.

[Toby]

Five league titles suggests it's some diddy league.

Don't remember him being at the World Cup but on the off chance he was an unused sub: Helton?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Weidenfeller maybe? Dunno if he's been to a World Cup. Also probably hasn't won five, come to think of it.

[John Arne]

I thought of Abbiati, but only 350 games for Meelan.

[SvN]

Weidenfeller was my first thought, but he's only won a couple of league titles.

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[SvN]

I do hope it isn't a random South Korean or something.

[Toby]

I don't think it can be a goalkeeper. Can't think of anybody who is playing as first choice for a regular league champion without getting capped, unless he's gone and picked somebody from a South American league.

I imagine it's a German/Spaniard/Brazilian playing in a smaller European league like Portugal or Holland, but fucked if I can think of anybody who's spent a long time in those leagues.

[Gray Fox]

Someone like Douglas Costa springs to mind for outfield players.

Though I imagine he's going to be getting a few caps since signing for Bayern.

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[Toby]

Fuck off.

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[Toby]

If it's a guy playing in Asia with barely a cap to his name I doubt he's going to be on the tip of anybody's tongue.

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[Spammer]

Hang on, what? He's won five league titles with his current club but has never featured in the top flight of the country he resides in? How does that make sense?

[Spammer]

Hang on, will they have been a tiny team that's been promoted a million times or something?

Edit: Champions League doesn't make sense in that case.

[Toby]

Found him now by searching Wiki's one club men page. I'll be seriously surprised if anybody had heard of him before.

[Charlie]

He lives in New Zealand and pops over to Australia every week to play some games.

[Reg]

He must live in some neighbouring country to the one he plays in.

[Toby]

Oh, I forgot that clue. This guy fits the bill on every other count: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Sogahata

[Spammer]

Fuck that. This a football quiz, not an ability-to-google-effectively quiz. I'm hoping this dude is someone we've a chance of having heard of.

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[John Arne]

But he resides in the country that he was born... And plays in it. Am I missing something?

[John Arne]

Ah, sorry. Top flight. Got it.

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[John Arne]

Are we talking this millennium?

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[ItalAussie]

Romario?

EDIT: Nope, don't think so.

[John Arne]

It sounds like it should be really easy, but I'm still thinking about Hitoshi fucking Sogahata.

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[John Arne]

Juan Pablo Angel?

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[John Arne]

Having played for Real Madrid for 5 years, including an unsuccessful loan spell in England during that time, I decided to try my hand in France. After only one fairly successful season with Marseille, I tried England again, only to leave 1yr later to head back to Spain. I retired with 6 international caps.

In 2004, I was named as one of my clubs 16 greatest players, in a poll organised as part of the club's anniversary celebrations.

[Gray Fox]

Juan Pablo Angel?

Jesus he was the first name that came to mind but I ruled him out for some reason. I was sure that 2nd striker he was on about was Heskey too.

[Manc]

Morientes?

47 caps. Woops.

[John Arne]

I didn't think it was him going based on the 3rd highest scorer thing. But, I just tried to think of players who left the Premier League for MLS and got it.

[John Arne]

Morientes?

Nein.

Last millennium, and some.