Have we ever had a Spanish player play for the mighty clarets?

Jay Rod doesn't count I'm afraid.

I can't remember any.

Bilbao Hamilton ?

I`ll get mi coat.....

Gijon Francis ?

Bambo?
Tony Grantino?

Ashley Barnez?

Gary Raul

Graham di Branchio was Italian, I believe.

Alex El Der?

José Barton.

José Hart.

Tom Jiton

Charlie Toledo

Benidorm Mee

Did Wigan have a couple of Spanish players in early 90’s who appeared in our reserves on trial?

Dan Agyez

hemos tenido algunos burros

Jesus Seba played on trial for the Reserves during the 1996-97 season

Juan Biggins

Lloret de Marney

Don Quixote

but I think he played for us under several aliases in the 80's

clarets1978 wrote:Jesus Seba played on trial for the Reserves during the 1996-97 season

Not so good with crosses, apparently.

Tony El Iss?

This promted me to check and, oddly, not a single Spaniard has ever played for us, ever. 1 Italian (does anyone remember Luigi Cennamo?) has crossed our doorstep. There have been a smattering of Europeans but probably about the same number as there are at Chelsea right now. In fact, oddly, there seems to have been almost as many Australians as Europeans with a small sprinkling of Africans and South Americans thrown in.
Having never checked this out before and thinking about the fact that many people on here have often criticised our 'foreign policy' it appears that we are very much a British player only club. The flags at the side of the name tells it's own story, overwhelmingly English (not surprisingly) then Scotland, Ireland (both) and Wales.
Here's an odd one though. Jamaica is not a country you readilly associate with football is it? We've had seven (that's 7) Jamaicans plus two others from the West Indies in general. That's nearly enough to make up a useful cricket team. Wonder if I was looking at players who'd played for Burnley CC?

Paella Barnes

Diego Penny and Graham Alejandro.

A theth theth theth theth

Chris waddle

Bop wrote:Diego Penny and Graham Alejandro.

Penny was NEARLY Spanish, he was Peruvian so would probably have had Spanish as a first language.

Gifton Noel-Williams was sold to a Spanish club.

So Spain owe us for the talent we sold them - or perhaps we owe them!

houseboy wrote:This promted me to check and, oddly, not a single Spaniard has ever played for us, ever. 1 Italian (does anyone remember Luigi Cennamo?) has crossed our doorstep. There have been a smattering of Europeans but probably about the same number as there are at Chelsea right now. In fact, oddly, there seems to have been almost as many Australians as Europeans with a small sprinkling of Africans and South Americans thrown in.
Having never checked this out before and thinking about the fact that many people on here have often criticised our 'foreign policy' it appears that we are very much a British player only club. The flags at the side of the name tells it's own story, overwhelmingly English (not surprisingly) then Scotland, Ireland (both) and Wales.
Here's an odd one though. Jamaica is not a country you readilly associate with football is it? We've had seven (that's 7) Jamaicans plus two others from the West Indies in general. That's nearly enough to make up a useful cricket team. Wonder if I was looking at players who'd played for Burnley CC?

Wasn't gentile Italian?

Steve-Harpers-perm wrote:Did Wigan have a couple of Spanish players in early 90’s who appeared in our reserves on trial?

Yes Jesus Seba, Idra Diaz or something like that and Roberto Martinez

Hipper wrote:Gifton Noel-Williams was sold to a Spanish club.

So Spain owe us for the talent we sold them - or perhaps we owe them!

He only went as far so he could retrieve his penalty.

Hipper wrote:Gifton Noel-Williams was sold to a Spanish club.

So Spain owe us for the talent we sold them - or perhaps we owe them!

I'm sure I saw him on tv playing at Camp Nou

gandhisflipflop wrote:Wasn't gentile Italian?

No. I saw that but although it is an Italian name he was in fact.....Dutch.

The Gentile I remember mainly was Claudio, the animal who Keegan once said of, "I was stood at the side of him at an awards ceremony once and it's the only time he didn't kick me'. Mainly with Juventus he was about as far removed from his surname as a player as could be. Apparently now some sort of managerial advisor to the South Korean side. Great defender but what an absolute beast.

RocketLawnChair wrote:hemos tenido algunos burros

Si..tienes razón,hemos tenido muchos Burros sobre los años pasados.. JaJaJaJa

conyoviejo wrote:Si..tienes razón,hemos tenido muchos Burros sobre los años pasados.. JaJaJaJa

Si Senor

I didn't realise we'd got two Spanish strikers.

The other one is Sam Vokez

Glen Littlino

houseboy wrote:No. I saw that but although it is an Italian name he was in fact.....Dutch.

The Gentile I remember mainly was Claudio, the animal who Keegan once said of, "I was stood at the side of him at an awards ceremony once and it's the only time he didn't kick me'. Mainly with Juventus he was about as far removed from his surname as a player as could be. Apparently now some sort of managerial advisor to the South Korean side. Great defender but what an absolute beast.

Marco Gentile was the nephew of Claudio Gentile so whilst Marco is a dutch national his heritage is still Italian.
Claudio like you say was a frightening centre back....but was actually also a very good player. There is some FIFA footage of the World Cups I once saw where there was a camera following Gentile as he marked a young Diego Maradona. It`s incredible - he should have been arrested !! When people talk about man marking an oppositions best player then this is probably the most extreme example you could ever see. But it did work as Maradona hardly got a kick (of the ball !!)

Jay's dad was Spanish and played for Burnley. Came from Deportivo I believe.

It was Jay’s dad’s dad that came from Deportivo (and played for them I think)
Jay’s dad is from Burnley - went to St Johns primary school and has lived here all his life

Has nobody mentioned Costa Del Rey Deakin yet ?!!

You can tell it's the international break

Ashley Blanes
Ben Mijas
Ronda Futcher

Ralphio Coatez

houseboy wrote:No. I saw that but although it is an Italian name he was in fact.....Dutch.

The Gentile I remember mainly was Claudio, the animal who Keegan once said of, "I was stood at the side of him at an awards ceremony once and it's the only time he didn't kick me'. Mainly with Juventus he was about as far removed from his surname as a player as could be. Apparently now some sort of managerial advisor to the South Korean side. Great defender but what an absolute beast.

Almost Italian, Claudio was born in Tripoli, Libya.

We had Andy Seville on loan in the 90s

Do you remember our first Indian player?



Peter Mumbai

Los Latcham

Jorge Oghanio.

Not to mention two of the mainstays of our title-winning team, Jaime McIlroy and Jaime Connelly.

Manual Worker

piston broke wrote:Almost Italian, Claudio was born in Tripoli, Libya.

Played many times for Italy. Actually a remarkably good defender but he was, to put it politely, very physical.