Tuesday, February 9, 2010

WC2010: Club Teammates on Opposing Group Stage Teams (A-D)



This is a potential* list of club teammates who will face off against each other in the group stages at WC2010. (Groups A-D)

GROUP A

ARSENAL
Carlos Vela (Mexico)
Bacary Sagna (France)
William Gallas (France)
Abou Diaby (France)
Gael Clichy (France)
Mikael Silvestre (France)
Samir Nasri (France)

BARCELONA
Rafa Marquez (Mexico)
Jonathan Dos Santos (Mexico)
Eric Abidal (France)
Thierry Henry (France)

WEST HAM UNITED
Guillermo Franco (Mexico)
Benny McCarthy (South Africa)

GROUP B

BOLTON
Lee Chung-Yong (South Korea)
Danny Shittu (Nigeria)

LIVERPOOL
Emiliano Insua (Argentina)
Javier Mascherano (Argentina)
Maxi Rodriguez (Argentina)
Sotirios Kyrgiakos (Greece)

MARSEILLE
Taye Taiwo (Nigeria)
Lucho Gonzalez (Argentina)
Gabriel Heinze (Argentina)

MONACO
Park Chu-Young (South Korea)
Lukman Haruna (Nigeria)

PORTSMOUTH
Angelos Basinas (Greece)
Nwankwo Kanu (Nigeria)

GROUP C

RANGERS
Madjid Bougherra (Algeria)
DaMarcus Beasley (USA)

BORUSSIA MOENCHENGLADBACH
Karim Matmour (Algeria)
Michael Bradley (USA)

HULL CITY
Kamel Ghilas (Algeria)
Jozy Altidore (USA)

PORTSMOUTH
Nadir Belhadj (Algeria)
Hassan Yebda (Algeria)
David James (England)

VfL BOCHUM
Antar Yahia (Algeria)
Zlatko Dedic (Slovenia)

PAS GIANNINA (Greece)
Salim Arrache (Algeria)
Mirnes Sisic (Slovenia)


GROUP D

1899 HOFFENHEIM
Andreas Beck (Germany)
Prince Tagoe (Ghana)
Isaac Vorsah (Ghana)

1. FC Köln
Lukas Podolski (Germany)
Zoran Tošić (Serbia)

FC BASEL
Scott Chipperfield (Australia)
Samuel Inkoom (Ghana)

BAYER LEVERKUSEN
Rene Adler (Germany)
Simon Rolfes (Germany)
Toni Kroos (Germany)
Hans Sarpei (Ghana)

FULHAM FC
Mark Schwarzer (Australia)
John Pantsil (Ghana)

HERTHA BSC
Arne Friedrich (Germany)
Gojko Kačar (Serbia)

INTER MILAN
Dejan Stanković (Serbia)
Sulley Muntari (Ghana)

LAZIO
Thomas Hitzlsperger (Germany)
Aleksandar Kolarov (Serbia)

UDINESE
Aleksandar Luković (Serbia)
Kwadwo Asamoah (Ghana)

VFB STUTTGART
Serdar Tasci (Germany)
Zdravko Kuzmanović (Serbia)

WIGAN ATHLETIC
Vladimir Stojković (Serbia)
Richard Kingson (Ghana)









*In hindsight, I probably should have waited for the World Cup 2010 squad lists to come out before doing a post like this, but I was already more than halfway done by the time I thought of it so I decided to finish it. When the final squad lists are released I plan to revisit the topic (and see how close I came).

3 comments:

  1. Messy, but what about Beckham/Donovan (LA Galaxy) in Group C? Technically they are still teammates.

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  2. Excellent post! I'd also love to see a ranking of the top 20-or-so club teams by number of roster players who will be representing their country in the World Cup. (not that you need any additional work to do!)

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  3. @Fireball
    For the purpose of this post, I used the criteria of 'current team only'. I didn't want to complicate things too much with loan players, so I think I'll keep it simple on this one.

    @brian in chicago
    I was actually planning to do a similar post to what you've suggested, but I'm think I'm going to wait for finalized WC rosters. I'll probably do a whole round of roster analysis at that time.

    Thanks guys

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