Former Nix players: Where are they now?

Former 'Nix players: Where are they now?

Just a thread to discuss where former players have gone and how well there doing. I was making a whole list of there current clubs, but 2 times I accidently clicked a link when I had nearly done the whole list. Then the 3rd time I push backspace, and it go's back to the previous screen. Well over it. Anyway. Discuss.

Here's the list to get you started...

G** has done bugger all, which would be about right.

Cleberson retired and was reportedly living in NZ somewhere.

Richard Johnson also retired, no idea what he is up to right now.

Elrich was released by CCM during the winter.

Kwasnik is back at CCM.

Fred is at the Philadelphia Union in MLS.

Reddy at Sydney.

Moss at Gold Coast United.

Smeltz just signed for Genclerbirligi.

Chen is still at Tianjin TEDA according to Wikipedia.

Plodder is with Tampa Bay in the USSF D2 Pro League (which is a one-season league while the organisation of the low-level pro leagues in the US is sorted out).

Aloisi is involved with his family's tile business and doing commentary for Fox Sports at Adelaide home games.

Caceres spent the winter playing for Inglewood FC in WA.

Coveny is the manager at South Melbourne.

Felipe ducked out of a contract with North Queensland before last season to play with Al-Raed in Saudi Arabia, where he is no longer listed as a player on Wikipedia.

Dadi was mulling over retirement in a facebook post a few months back.

George went to Venezuelan club Cara,I want to be banned FC according to wikipedia and supposedly scored 58 goals in 108 games, and is apparently now at some club called Binator De.
Critical_Lemon2010-09-01 17:43:22

Mully - Auckland City Drapes - Basingstoke Johnson is living in Queenstown or similar running coaching courses. Clebo was in Queensland Rees- Gold Coast Brownlie was playing Queensland State League Old - Kilmarnock Scotland O'Dor - South Melbourne Costa - Clogs

Rich J runs the 82 Academy

Did this a while ago, has everyone but George & Caceres. Hope it helps, lemme know if I've got anything wrong or left anyone out.

http://windrainphoenix.wordpress.com/where-is/

Who on earth is Stuart Webster, Robb?

Called in as a injury replacement GK backup in season 1 (IIRC). Saw no match time. Same deal as Imray and Higgins. 

...and McMaster, and Jake Spoonley but of course he'd been here the first season anyway.

Ferrante?

Michael FERRANTE � Richmond Eagles (VPL)

Ahmad ELRICH � Free agent, presumably at KFC   

K-FC? Team in Korea?

Oops, think that's a typo. I may or may not correct it.

Just to expand upon this - The name Binator De is a shortening of Binator de Luxonato according to the link itself. Which according to Google, on exists on George's WP page. So I'm calling shenanigans there, hence why I've listed him as unknown.

Cheers for the info on Caceres btw, I've updated my page to reflect that.

BRING BACK GEORGE

Just another thing.. Cleberson got world-wide fame for kissing a refferee..

already a thread about this

Why? The other thread hasn't been touched in 5 months...

That actually happened before he joined the Nix, but it is pretty funny.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=424584&cc=3436

Covs is vacating the South Melbourne coaching role.

The club handled it very poorly. Sad to see him go because of some unfortunate circumstances.

What happened?

Elr**h was the marquee player of everyones dreams.

"He also coached South Melbourne FC in the 2001/02 NSL season, introducing young players such as Massimo Murdocca and Vince Lia into the senior side"

How does he sleep at night ?

Quite long story.

He was appointed at the end of last season, which is quite risky as it's his first coaching role and the expectation placed upon him was very high.

There's also a problem of the crowd disturbance which first led to a 0-3 forfeit loss from a 1-1 abandoned draw. The board appealed and had the 1-1 score reinstated but the club got deducted 6 points.

In the end, the club missed the finals by a single point (if not for the -6, South will be in 3rd place with strong momentum). That's one of the factors in him getting sacked.

Others were related to his coaching ability. Poor decisions (some of them questionable, some horrible) and with the squad at his disposal on paper the club should be comfortably topping the league.0

Personally I thought he should've been given the assistant role first to learn more about coaching rather than throwing him into the deep end.

Robb may have used Wikipedia in some cases...

I would have thought caceres would have a better team, I really rated him

Me too, I'd happily have him back.

Caceres has signed for VPL team Heildelberg for next season. They play in the same colours as the Nix. Very good pick up for them and should do well in he VPL. Tony P2010-09-28 15:16:46

Sorry Tony, when I saw the member tittle the Fever bestowed upon you I couldn't help but laugh my ass off.

But yes, Caceres, He could be doing better easily, hell, even NQF would have em probably.Azevo2010-10-01 12:45:28

I'm sure this has been done before, but I thought I pick Phoenix 'Legends' from this list of ex-players. Main criteria was being rubbish (for us), rarely playing, or earning the wrath of YF

wolfman2010-10-04 14:48:42

Needs more Royce Brownlie.

Add a touch of George...

I thought Diego was still a current player??

Needs more George.

And adefensive midfielder, but we've done pretty well with them.

Fixed - how did I forget George, when he was the one who started that train of thought?