Football Traitors XI - Part 1 _ Lewandowski, Ronaldo & Tevez!

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Goalkeeper Asmir Begovic
Chelsea keeper Asmir Begovic was born in Bosnia but moved to Canada as a kid.
He went on to represent the Canucks at under-20 level and made the bench for the senior team.
However, he never played a minute and was still eligible for Bosnia, who called him up in 2009.
Begovic jumped ship and has picked up over 40 caps for the Eastern Europeans since.
Defender Ashley Cole
Ashley Cole was a two-time Premier League winner with Arsenal but the lure of Chelsea's Russian
money proved too much in 2005 when he was caught meeting with Blues boss Jose Mourinho in secret.
Both men were fined but Cole got his move in 2006,
turning down £55k a week from Arsenal in favour of nearly £100k from Chelsea.
He went on to win the Premier League for a third time and the Champions League at Stamford Bridge.
Defender William Gallas
Ashley Cole's move to West London saw William Gallas go in the other direction.
Chelsea issued a statement saying that Gallas had threatened to score
own goals if he wasn't allowed to leave and the Frenchman joined Arsene Wenger's side.
But his turncoat days weren't over as Gallas left for Tottenham in 2010,
making him the only man to play for all three clubs.
Defender Sol Campbell
He established himself as a world-class centre-back at Spurs, who he had joined at 14.
But when his contract expired in 2001, he signed for Arsenal on a Bosman.
There he won a league and cup double and helped the club go through a season unbeaten in 2004,
earning the title of Invincible. But at White Hart Lane, he'll always be known as Judas.
Right wing Luis Enrique
Wide on the right it's Barca manager Luis Enrique.
Lucho actually made his name at Real Madrid but said he didn't feel at home in the Spanish capital.
The club let him run down his contract but regretted it when Enrique joined Barcelona
on a free transfer and became a fan favourite, scoring 109 goals in 300 games in Catalunya.
And he continues to make Los Blancos pay today,
with his Blaugrana team ripping up Europe on their way to a treble in 2015.
Midfielder Andrea Pirlo
Andrea Pirlo seemed too cool and charming to be treacherous,
but the man they called the architect joined Milan from Inter for €17m in 2001
and went on to excel in multiple midfield partnerships,
with Gattuso, Seedorf, Kaká and Rui Costa picking up two Champions Leagues on the way.
But Milan let Pirlo leave in 2011 at the age of 32,
and he joined Juventus where he won four consecutive Scudetti.
Midfielder Cesc Fabregas
Cesc Fabregas always said that he owed his success to three people, his parents and Arsene Wenger.
So Gunners were understandably aggrieved when Fabregas skipped out on the Frenchman to return
to his childhood club, Barcelona, before committing an even worse crime and joining
London rivals Chelsea. The Spaniard can point to his two league titles since leaving the Emirates,
but seeing their former captain hug Jose Mourinho will never fail to turn Arsenal's stomachs.
Left wing
Luis Figo
An elegant and stylish winger, Luis Figo was classier on the pitch than off it,
as he broke Real Madrid hearts and the World Transfer Record
when he switched from Barcelona in 2000 for £37m.
The first Galactico, Figo won the Ballon d'Or and La Liga in his first season in the famous
white kit. But when the club travelled to the Camp Nou, he was booed and pelted with golf balls,
mobile phones and bottles, forcing the game to be suspended for 20 minutes.
The next time, it got even worse, as the missiles included a whole pig's head.
Forward
Carlos Tevez
Man Utd had already faced a major pain in the arse to sign Carlos Tevez on loan,
thanks to third-party ownership issues, but things got much worse in 2009
when local rivals Manchester City trumped them for the Argentinian's signature on a permanent deal.
The Sky Blues rubbed salt in the wound with a poster of Tevez reading
Welcome to Manchester put up in the city. But two years later,
City fans faced frustrations of their own as Tevez refused to come off the bench against Bayern
Munich, triggering his departure to South America for most of the season
and a protracted stand-off with the club.
Forward
Robert Lewandowski
Polish striker Robert Lewandowski helped Borussia Dortmund to two Bundesliga titles
and a runners-up place in the Champions League, but he refused moves out of Germany,
ran his contract down and signed a pre-agreement with arch-rivals Bayern Munich in January 2014.
BVB couldn't even recoup a fee from the switch,
and outrage in Dortmund saw the tyres nicked from Lewandowski's Porsche.
But the Pole's career went supernova,
adding insult to injury as he won back-to-back league titles with the Bavarians.
Forward
Ronaldo
Maybe the greatest striker ever to play the game, Brazilian Ronaldo had every talent but loyalty,
as he played on both sides of the Madrid and Milan rivalries, making him the only player
in history to feature for Real Madrid, Barcelona, Milan and Inter.
His moves between the four clubs totaled almost £70m and in 332 combined games for them,
he scored 206 goals.
There may be a few grumbles about his betrayals,
but frankly supporters were just lucky to see him play.
Substitutes
Mathieu Valbuena
French attacking midfielder Mathieu Valbuena featured over 300 times for Marseille,
before the club's financial problems led to a move to Dynamo Moscow in 2014.
But a year later, Valbuena returned to France, this time with Lyon, Marseille's greatest enemy.
When the clubs met at the Stade Velodrome, Marseille fans hung an effigy of their former
and pelted the player with bottles and even fireworks during the course of the match.
It ended in a draw, but it was definitely a defeat for Valbuena.
Mario Balotelli
There are many players who pissed off supporters,
but nobody made an art of it like Mario Balotelli.
He burst onto the scene with Inter Milan as a teenager,
but his diving and dirty play irritated manager Jose Mourinho,
leading Balotelli to appear on Italian TV wearing an AC Milan shirt.
He later apologised, but under three years later he was wearing one for real,
turning out for the red side of the city after a spell with Manchester City.
Mario Goerze
World Cup winner Mario Goerze came through the ranks at Borussia Dortmund,
but after three trophies at the club it was announced in 2013 that he would join Bayern
Munich in the summer. And with the agreement revealed just hours before Dortmund played
a Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid, it seemed calculated to destabilise
Goerze is Bavarian by birth, but as a product of BVB's youth system, his defection stunned.
Perhaps there is comfort in the fact that, despite all the silverware,
Goerze never reached the heights in Munich that he did at the Westfalenstadion.
