Worst Champions League Winners XI _ Traore, Brown, Bosingwa.

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Hello and welcome to Football Daily, where today we've created a team of the worst players
ever to win the Champions League.
Goalkeeper – Ross Turnbull
We could have picked several truly shite keepers in goal, but we went for Chelsea's second
string stopper Ross Turnbull, who scabbed a winner's medal as Petr Cech's understudy
in 2012.
Turnbull made just 19 appearances for Chelsea over the course of four years at the club,
despite claiming that he would challenge Cech for the number one shirt.
Nonetheless, he also won the FA Cup twice, as well as the Europa League, before leaving
for the glamour of Doncaster Rovers.
Now at Leeds, Turnbull played just once for the club before fracturing his ankle.
Right wing-back – Martín Montoya
We all like to talk about the superstars trained at La Masia, but Barcelona's famous academy
has produced some trash too.
Right-back Martín Montoya joined the club at eight and went on to play in the first
team when Dani Alves couldn't be asked, or fancied heading back to Brazil for Carnival.
Montoya won La Liga three times and the Champions League in 2015, and had an impressively terrible
loan speller into Milan, cancelled halfway through the 2015-16 season.
The 24-year-old went straight back out to Betis, and looks set to carve out a subpar
career in Spanish football.
Centre-back Wes Brown
Sorry to remind you of the existence of Wes Brown, but the Sunderland man has actually
won the Champions League twice, even registering an assist in the 2008 final as United beat
Chelsea.
With performances as depressing as his name, Brown has now found his natural home fighting
relegation in the North East, making nearly 100 appearances for the Black Cats over the
last five years.
For somebody who Alex Ferguson once called the best natural defender United has had for
years, it's an unspectacular twilight to his career.
Centre-back Thomas Vermaelen
Once upon a time, Thomas Vermaelen was highly regarded by Arsenal fans, before Laurent Koscielny
and Per Mertesacker partnered up and relegated the Belgian to the bench.
So Arsene Wenger couldn't believe his luck when Barcelona offered €19m for Vermaelen
in 2014.
After signing in August, it took him until May to make his debut for Barca, but he still
picked up a Champions League winner's medal in 2015, which he was later asked to return.
But with injuries still dogging him, it's clear that while you can take the player out
of Arsenal, you can't take Arsenal out of the player.
Centre-back Jimmy Traore
Marleyan defender Jimmy Traore is now committing atrocities in MLS with Seattle Sounders, but
he made his name as a garbage player at Liverpool, where he won the Champions League in 2005.
Traore was instrumental in Liverpool going 3-0 down at half-time, after a poor touch
and a foul on Kaká led to the first goal, but he made amends in the second half with
a goal-line clearance.
However, his finest moment was against Burnley in 2005, when he Cruyff-turned-the-ball into
his own goal to hand the Championship side the win.
Left-wing-back José Bosíngua
One of the finest monobrows in the game, José Bosíngua was mainly a right-back, but he
features on the left here. The Portuguese international's approach to defending is
best summed up by a shrugging emoji, but he won Europe's top competition twice with
Porto and Chelsea.
Unfortunately for Bosíngua, he was rewarded for his role in Chelsea's triumph with a
move to QPR, where he was relegated the following season. After that came Trabzonspor, whom
Bosíngua left mid-season, claiming unpaid wages. But unsurprisingly, he was not a hot
Right midfield, Pedro Mendes
Pedro Mendes was also in the 2004 Porto side, and earned himself a move to Tottenham, where
he's still remembered for a 50-yard smash against Man Utd, which Roy Carroll dropped
over the line. He went to Portsmouth and Rangers after spurs before returning to Portugal,
adding the FA Cup and SPL title to his oddly impressive CV.
Centre midfield, Auriol Rameau
Auriol Rameau's career proves that if you're born in Barcelona, people will assume you
are decent at football. Rameau made two appearances for Barca before a move to Chelsea, where
he won the FA Cup, the Europa League and the Champions League. Rameau was kept out of the
final by the combined brilliance of John Obi Mikel and a young Ryan Bertrand, and ended
up on loan at Valencia and then Stuttgart.
Southampton took him off the Blues' hands in 2015, paying €7m for a player who cost
Chelsea just £5m in the first place. Koeman, you have had a nightmare.
Centre midfield, Sully Montari
With over 80 caps, Sully Montari is one of Ghana's longest servants, but his club career
has been a strange rollercoaster. Considered an excellent prospect at Udinese, one Italian
magazine went mental and claimed that he had the touch of Kaká and the combativeness of
Edgar Davids.
But more importantly, he had the luck of the Irish, as he somehow conned Inter Milan into
signing him after just one season at Portsmouth. There he was teammates with Walter Samuel,
Zlatan Ibrahimović and Patrick Vieira, and came off the bench in the 2010 final as Inter
beat Bayern Munich to the CL trophy.
Left midfield, Jesper Blomkvist
Jesper Blomkvist managed to start in the 1999 Champions League final, as Paul Scholes and
Roy Keane were suspended. David Beckham was moved into central midfield, and Blomkvist
played on the left as United went behind to a Mario Basler free kick.
In the second half, the Swede made his greatest contribution to the club, as he was subbed
off for Teddy Sheringham, who scored and assisted in a 2-1 turnaround.
Blomkvist left for Everton in 2001, after injury problems prevented him from playing
a single minute for the Red Devils in two seasons, making the 1999 final his last game
for the club.
Striker, Milan Baros
Milan Baros saved his best for international play, netting 41 goals in 93 games to make
him the Czech Republic's second-highest scorer of all time. And he won one of football's
greatest honours in 2005, when Liverpool won the Champions League.
Baros had little impact on the game, and was subbed off for Gibraltar Cissé five minutes
from time, with the Frenchman going on to score in the penalty shootout.
But Baros made his mark on the competition after all, when he dropped the trophy and
left a dent in its handle. He made just two substitute appearances the following season,
before being offloaded to Aston Villa.
