Barca players (most likely ex) who played 200 games?

[General Ashnak]

K thx bye

[Futbol_Crazy21]

Whether its true or not, or whether he will actually come here or not doesn't really matter. It's good PR for the club, quite a harmless positive article that involves our club.

[supsup]

CHEEKY

A quick Google gives me:

NEW Adelaide United boss Josep Gombau says an FC Barcelona star has called him and said he wants to join the Reds.

Gombau said the player had telephoned him not long after he was announced as Adelaide's coach for a two-year term on Tuesday.

But Gombau would not reveal the player's name. Nor was he specific as to whether his caller was still on Barca's books.

"But, of course, we have a chance to bring Spanish players to Adelaide.

"A lot of people from Barcelona, I have a good relationship with Barcelona because I worked there for six years.

"But one player that's played many, many games, more than 200 games for Barcelona called me yesterday night.

"He told me `Josep, I want to go to Australia because it's a good opportunity for my family'.

"But now I need to speak to (Adelaide football director) Michael Petrillo about this."

more,
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6633413699

[sevengoals]

Here we go...
The Advertiser,

"Now there is one player from Barcelona that played for many years and he told me `Josep, I want to come with you to Adelaide'," Gombau said from Hong Kong yesterday.

"He told me `Josep, I want to go to Australia because it's a good opportunity for my family'.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/foo ... 6633413699

[Shane]

It's promising that Gombau has an outlook of bringing this calibre of player to the squad, but on the other hand it makes you wonder if he can actually make it happen.

If it is possible and probable, it'd be a marquee player and the real question is this;

What sort of money will the Club's current owners be willing to part with for a player of this calibre?

Still not convinced.

As for Valkanis - Well, it is true. Valkanis knows more about Adelaide United than Gombau does. In saying that, I just hope he gives Gombau the absolute truth.

[EdDog]

Ok so who has time to compile a list of Spanish, Barcelona players who have played over 200 games for Barca?

[sall123]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_FC ... na_players

[Shane]

Ok, let's kick it off then for a bit of fun.

I haven't yet removed any of the 'oldies'.

A list of players with games of 200 or more for Barca;

Player Name Nationality Position Barca Career # of Appearances

Julio Alberto Moreno Spain Defender 1982–1991 200
Eusebio Sacristán Spain Midfielder 1988–1995 203
Albert Ferrer Spain Defender 1990–1998 204
Phillip Cocu * Netherlands Midfielder 1998–2004 205
Miguel Ángel Nadal Spain Defender 1991–1999 207
Luis Enrique Spain Midfielder 1996–2004 207
Marià Gonzalvo Spain Midfielder 1942–1956 208
Marcial Pina Spain Midfielder 1969–1977 210
Josep Seguer Spain Winger 1943–1957 214
Lionel Messi * Argentina Forward 2004– 214
Ferran Olivella Spain Defender 1956–1969 215
Txiki Begiristain Spain Midfielder 1988–1995 223
Víctor Muñoz Spain Midfielder 1981–1988 224
Eladio Silvestre Spain Defender 1962–1972 226
Sígfrid Gràcia Spain Defender 1952–1966 231
José Vicente Sánchez Spain Midfielder 1975–1986 236
Estanislao Basora Spain Winger 1946–1958 237
Salvador Sadurní Spain Goalkeeper 1961–1976 247
Gallego Spain Defender 1965–1975 248
José Mari Bakero Spain Midfielder 1988–1996 260
Francisco José Carrasco Spain Forward 1978–1989 262
Josep Guardiola Spain Midfielder 1990–2001 263
Andrés Iniesta Spain Midfielder 2002– 263
Sergi Barjuán Spain Defender 1993–2002 267
Antoni Torres Spain Defender 1965–1976 269
José Ramón Alexanko Spain Defender 1980–1993 274
Giovani dos Santos Mexico Midfielder 2007–2008 28
César Rodrìguez * Spain Forward 1942–1955 287
Antoni Ramallets * Spain Goalkeeper 1946–1961 288
Joaquim Rifé Spain Defender 1964–1976 290
Joan Segarra Spain Defender 1949–1964 299
Juan Manuel Asensi Spain Forward 1970–1980 299
Andoni Zubizarreta Spain Goalkeeper 1986–1994 301
Guillermo Amor Spain Midfielder 1988–1998 311
Víctor Valdés Spain Goalkeeper 2002– 323
Carles Rexach Spain Forward 1965–1981 328
Carles Puyol * Spain Defender 1999– 366
Migueli Spain Defender 1973–1989 391
Xavi Hernández * Spain Midfielder 1998– 407

[ChillyPhilly]

To quote a friend: definitely Barca legend Dexter Rosales.

[Old Gregg]

My money's on Romario

[sall123]

Had a quick look. MOst of them are all old, the only ones I saw that could be a possibility are Xavi, Puyol, Valdes, and Iniesta. Out of them im going for Xavi.

Edit: Saw Dos Sanots's game played, wikis bad ordering fault.

[EdDog]

Surely Xavi, Puyol, Valdes, and Iniesta would not be in the equation. The article says he "played" for Barca so surely that means ex-Barca player...

Gombau also says that he is Spanish so that narrows Shane's list slightly.

Ahh fun

[double07]

Had a quick look. MOst of them are all old, the only ones I saw that could be a possibility are Xavi, Puyol, Valdes, Dos Santos and Iniesta. Out of them im going for Xavi.

Xavi, lets face it, no chance

Valdes, well Eugene is better

Dos Santos doesn't have anywhere near 200+ games for Barca.

Iniesta, yeah again no chance.

Puyol is signed until 2016.

So it has to be a former player and perhaps Josep got his numbers mixed up. My guess would perhaps be Deco. 100+ games, contract with Flumenese finishes at the end of this season.

[Old Gregg]

Deco & Ronaldinho are ex-players with between 100-200 games for Barca. Ronaldinho actually holds dual Brazilian/Spanish citizenship (Deco Brazilian/Poruguese).

Highly unlikely that it would be a player of that sort of standing in the game (same w/ Xavi, Puyol etc) but with del Piero at Sydney I suppose nothing is outside the realms of possibility. Would need the FFA to stump up some marquee dosh big time though.

[ganas]

maybe we could do straight swap with barca. they take eugene (we sacrifice his services for aufc for the betterment of the socceroo's) with valdes. now as eugene is a better player than valdes, barca also throw in one of their up and comers from the youth team for a few years.