'I Played for FC Barcelona': 20 Weirdest Players to Ever Wear the Blaugrana

Andres Ehrli@@ehrliX.com LogoCorrespondent IIIOctober 20, 2011

'I Played for FC Barcelona': 20 Weirdest Players to Ever Wear the Blaugrana

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    FC Barcelona is a club filled with legends. But I assure you: you won't see a single legend in this slideshow. What you will see, however, is a compilation of players that you will remember from past (and worse) times as a Culé. If you remember them, that is. 

    Some players in this list really have to consider themselves lucky to have played at the Camp Nou wearing the Blaugrana, because talent-wise, they were miles away from deserving a spot at Barcelona.

    Others will be a sore sight as Barcelona players because of their great careers with other clubs.

    And there will be some who are so weird, that you will flat-out not know who they are.

20. Pepe Reina

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    Pepe Reina with hair and as a Barcelona player?

    Fantastic way to start a "weird" list, if you ask me. 

19. Oleguer

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    Some actually liked Oleguer.

    But for me it was weird every single minute he played for Barcelona.

    And it still is.

18. Rustu Recber

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    Rustu Recber had a fantastic 2002 World Cup with Turkey and he signed for Barcelona.

    The fantastic ended there, and he was a nightmare in each of the four games he started as a Blaugrana keeper.

    This image is a collector's item, indeed.

17. Dmytro Chygrynskiy

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    Chygry needs no introduction.

    He was doomed and weirded out the moment he landed at the Camp Nou.

16. Luis García

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    Luis García is another player known more for what he did in a Liverpool shirt than a Barcelona one.

    He was a terrific player, but seeing him in blue and red is definitely weird.

15. Emmanuel Petit

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    I'm sure Petit still thought he was a Gunner when he played with Barcelona.

    His blond ponytail just makes it worse.

14. Simao

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    Clubs Simao was great for: Lisboa and Atlético.

    Clubs Simao was horrible (and weird) for: Barcelona.

13. Quaresma

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    Quaresma's "trivela" shots didn't impress anyone at the Camp Nou.

    The fact Barcelona got him instead of a certain Cristiano Ronaldo just makes it way worse and lots weirder.

12. Maxi López

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    Maxi Lopez's nickname is "La Gallinita (The Hen)".

    And he scored a goal against Chelsea

    And I assure you it's only going to get weirder from this point on. 

11. Alfonso Pérez

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    Alfonso is the most Merengue player to ever wear Barcelona's shirt.

    If that's not weird, I don't know what is. 

10. Santi Ezquerro

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    Santi Ezquerro must've been a blast in the locker room.

    Otherwise, I just don't know what Barcelona brought him in for.

9. Roberto Bonano

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    Bonano was not just weird as a Barcelona goalkeeper; he was awful.

    Thankfully, Victor Valdés emerged and holds the fort down to this day.

8. Demetrio Albertini

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    Albertini played exactly five games in a six-month span at Barcelona. 

    So appreciate the image you see here, because it's quite rare.

7. Jari Litmanen

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    Litmanen was supposed to be the next Michael Laudrup in Barcelona.

    And he was... well, let's say, weird.

6. Winston Bogarde

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    I never saw Bogarde receive a ball without it bouncing 10 feet away from him.

    That's weird when you're a Barcelona player, for sure.

5. Richard Dutruel

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    Saying Barcelona got Bonano (No. 9 on this list) to replace Dutruel just about says how weird the French goalkeeper was for Barcelona.

4. Francesco Coco

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    Francesco Coco was the first Italian ever to play for Barcelona. He is also the worst.

    And definitely the weirdest. 

3. Frederic Dehú

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    The Frenchman was supposed to be the next Laurent Blanc.

    He was worse than Christanval, which is really saying something.

2. Emmanuel Amunike

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    And then there's Amunike. 

    Famous for... well, playing in Barcelona. 

    At least the 21 times he did it in his three years. 

1. Samuel Okunowo

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    Okunowo played 14 matches in two years at Barcelona.

    And he was awful in every single minute.

    If you seriously remember this player, you are a true Barcelona fan. 

    And if you remember him without him weirding you out, either you're not human or your name is Samuel Okunowo. 

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