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Nationality English

Position Defender

Team(s) Norwich City 1993-1996, Leicester City 1996-1998, Derby County 1998-2000

Stats 192 Appearances, 2 Goals

Fun Fact During his 3-year stint at Cardiff City he was often booed by the Ninian Park crowd. He complained about this on many occasions citing the fact that he was English as a cause even though he was playing with other English players who were considered fan favourites at the time.

Suggested by @parkji

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Nationality English

Nationality Midfielder

Team(s) Derby 1999-2001 / 2005-2007, Leeds 2001-2005

Stats 184 Appearances, 10 Goals

Fun Fact Seth Johnson played 17 minutes for England in his entire international career, in a 1-0 defeat to Italy in November 2000.

Submitted by David Sims

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Nationality Argentinian

Position Defender

Team(s) Derby County 1998-2002

Stats 90 Appearances, 9 Goals

Fun Fact Was the first Argentinian to play in the premiership when he made his debut on 5th August 1998.

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Nationality Estonian

Position Defender

Team(s) Derby County 1997 - 2002, Sunderland 2003-2006, Arsenal 2007

Stats 205 Appearances 1 Goal

Fun Fact Scored his only goal as a 90th minute equaliser for Sunderland in his first game against his old club. This goal was applauded by both sets of fans.

Submitted by Greg

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Nationality Italian

Position Striker

Team(s) Middlesbrough 1996-1997, Derby County 2001-2003

Stats 84 Appearances, 31 Goals

Fun Fact Fabrizio Ravanelli was born middle aged, having always had grey hair.

Submitted by Joe

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Nationality Danish

Position Striker

Teams Middlesbrough 1996-1999, Derby County 1999

Stats 109 Appearances, 26 Goals

Fun Fact He is consistently voted in supporters poll’s as the worst player ever to appear for Derby.

Submitted by James Keeling

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Nationality Norwegian

Position Midfielder

Team(s) Nottingham Forest 1993-1995, Blackburn Rovers 1995-1998, Derby County 1998-2001

Stats 179 Appearances, 15 Goals

Fun Fact  He once refused to play for the Norwegian national team against France in protest after the French Army started carrying out nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

Submitted by Justin Patel

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Nationality Costa Rican

Position Striker

Team(s) Derby County 1996-1999, West Ham 1999-2000, Manchester City 2000-2004

Stats 171 Appearances, 62 Goals

Fun Fact Paulo Wanchope was on a basketball scholarship at the University of Southern California before he moved to Derby County.

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Nationality Australian/English

Position Left Back

Team(s) Aston Villa 1983-87, Chelsea 1987-91, Leeds 1991-97, Derby 1998-2000

Stats 569 Appearances, 18 Goals

Fun Fact During his time in Torino, Tony Dorigo collaborated with Dolmio in order to produce an unsuccessful range of pasta sauces.

submitted by Jack Scragg

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Nationality Italian

Position Midfielder

Team(s) Derby County 1997-2001

Stats 95 Appearances 7 Goals

Fun Fact He was voted one of Derby County’s 11 greatest ever footballers

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Nationality Croatian

Position Defender

Team(s) Derby 1995-1999, West Ham 1999-2001

Stats 127 Appearances 4 Goal

Fun Fact Following his career in football he had a short spell as a popstar releasing a song called Mare i Kate

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Nationality Italian

Position Forward

Team(s) Sheffield Wednesday 1996-1999, Aston Villa 1999-2000, Bradford City 2000-2001, Derby County 2001-2002, Middlesbrough 2002

Stats 187 appearances, 41 goals

Fun Fact Carbone continued to play up until last year. He is now the U-21 coach of the last team he played at, A.C. Pavia.