Blast from the past - Joao Moreira

[PSumbler]

Another one from the archives and a short lived feature on Jackarmy.net (as it was back then) submitted by the readers - blast from the past

Anyone remember Joao?

https://www.planetswans.co.uk/2005/09/23/bftp-joao-moreira/Read about him here

 

[Pegojack]

Another one from the archives and a short lived feature on Jackarmy.net (as it was back then) submitted by the readers - blast from the past

Anyone remember Joao?

https://www.planetswans.co.uk/2005/09/23/bftp-joao-moreira/Read about him here

Yes, I remember him. It was fashionable to knock him in the years after he left us, but actually watching him play for us, I thought he was a pretty good full back. Also a bit exotic at the time for a club of our size to have a Portuguese player.

 

[Dr. Winston]

Don't think the way we played at the time particularly suited him. He was pretty good on the front foot but from memory we were a defensive side then.

 

[sainthelens]

Or we could mention Shecter, possibly the worst player I've ever seen wearing our shirt. But fair play, he was that bad he made me laugh.

 

[Magic_Michu]

He was the left back when I first started watching the Swans and always thought it was amazing that we had a Portuguese player in the team - he was foreign so must be good!

Will always have a soft spot for him... also David Romo a few years later - he was a classy player - not great for the rough and tumble of the 3rd Division, would have been better suited to the higher leagues I always thought.

 

[Magic_Michu]

Or we could mention Shecter, possibly the worst player I've ever seen wearing our shirt. But fair play, he was that bad he made me laugh.

Shecter is nowhere near the worst player I’ve seen playing for us... Linton Brown, Shaun Chapple, Gary Fisken, Michael Jackson... they were some terrible players.

 

[swan65split]

The Portuguese waiter!

didnt he play a blinder against Brighton? ....football on ice.

 

[Ronald Parp]

Or we could mention Shecter, possibly the worst player I've ever seen wearing our shirt. But fair play, he was that bad he made me laugh.

Shecter is nowhere near the worst player I’ve seen playing for us... Linton Brown, Shaun Chapple, Gary Fisken, Michael Jackson... they were some terrible players.

My parents named me after Itay Schecter.

Re Joao - should never have played in the play-off final v Northampton. How Molby thought he wasn't good enough for months then brought him back for that.......?

 

[PencoedJack]

Remember him well had a ST in the centre stand when he was playing.

Did Jon Ford play before or after him?

 

[Ronald Parp]

Remember him well had a ST in the centre stand when he was playing.

Did Jon Ford play before or after him?

Before.

 

[PSumbler]

He was the left back when I first started watching the Swans and always thought it was amazing that we had a Portuguese player in the team - he was foreign so must be good!

Will always have a soft spot for him... also David Romo a few years later - he was a classy player - not great for the rough and tumble of the 3rd Division, would have been better suited to the higher leagues I always thought.

Interesting you mentioned Romo yesterday - this popped up in today's "on this day" - https://www.planetswans.co.uk/2001/09/24/romo-wants-out/

 

[TheLoneRanger]

We were very much a squad of mixed nationals during our 2000/2001 relegation season, with David Romo, Giovanni Savarese, Nicolas Fabiano, Walter Boyd and Matthias Verschave lining up for us.