'Retired' Squad Members

PERSONAL
Philip FAT FEI 'Badaling' Bartley.
English

SQUAD
Midfield and egg farmer.

PERSONAL
David Niven.
Scottish. Born 22nd July, 1972.

SQUAD
Centre

PERSONAL
Jonny 'Manc' White
Mancunian

SQUAD
Forward. Playing for the City since February 2007. Left August 2007 to play for rivals Sexy FC

read his profile

PERSONAL
Jim McKay (he's one on the right)
Nickname "Longtallsally"
from England

SQUAD
Mid Field. Playing for the City since February 2007. Returned to UK Summer 2007, but may be back for the City?

read his profile

PERSONAL

Name: Martin Birkner
Age: 23
Place of Birth: Munich/Germany
Position: Midfield, Forward
In Beijing since August 2006

PERSONAL
Asgeir Andreassen

see his website

SQUAD
Joined FCFC in Spring 2006

PERSONAL
Jean-Baptiste Audran
25 years old (2006)
Born the 22nd August 1980 in Brittany which makes him French

SQUAD
Favourite Position 9 1/2
Joined Spring 2006

PERSONAL
Mohammed Saad, Egyptian

SQUAD
Winger.
Joined FCFC in Fevruary 2007. Returned to Egypt August 2007.

PERSONAL
Dave Stewart
English

SQUAD
Mid Field. Playing for the City since March 2006.

read his profile

PERSONAL
Aron Ciesla

SQUAD
Midfield

PERSONAL
Gabe 'Rainmaker' Grisham.
American
Born 9/20/78
In China since October 2001 and Beijing since December 2004
Likes: Cold beer, hot pot
Dislikes: losing and short people

SQUAD
Midfield
Returned to USA with Mrs Anna Grisham in September 2006

PERSONAL
Peter Frank.
Danish, born 4th March 1978.
Got engaged to Mette on 29th July '05 just before coming to China to live as an expat husband.
see his website

SQUAD
Goalkeeper.
Joined August 2005
Returned to Denmark Summer 2006

PERSONAL
Paul Brace
Nickname "Bracey"
Australian

SQUAD
Left Mid Field. Originally played with the Accies, but long term injury only saw him back in the squad in 2006. Continued leg injuries sees him out of football this season

PERSONAL
Wim 'BPS' Broekmans.
Born in Leuven, Belgium on the 24th of April 1987 (which makes me 18 years old)
Been in Beijing since 1/09/04 and i joined FCFC shortly before summer, didn't play in the summer league though ...

SQUAD
Forward and top goal scorer
Returned to Belgium in Spring 2006

PERSONAL
Mark 'Non-League Jeff' South.
English

SQUAD
Defence

Left December 2005.

PERSONAL
Lars Christiansen

SQUAD
Joined FCFC in Spring 2006

PERSONAL
Andre Nowotnick.
German

SQUAD
Midfield

DATE LEFT
April 2006, back to Germany

PERSONAL
Markus Horch.
German.

SQUAD
Midfield.

Left Spring 2006

PERSONAL
Steve Aldred.
Born 2nd October 1665.
read his profile

SQUAD
Aldo is our coach and plays in Central Defence when he's not shouting on the side lines.
Joined July '05.

Left our squad in Spring 2006 as too busy with football coaching comittments

PERSONAL
Luke Minford.

SQUAD
Injured at beginning of 2005.

PERSONAL
Friso
German

DATE LEFT
January 2006, returned to Mexico to get engaged
read more ...

PERSONAL
Tom Lee.
German.

DATE LEFT
January 2006, returned to Germany

PERSONAL
Wayne King.
Kiwi.

SQUAD
Bar owner.
Pomegranate Bar

Too interested in his bar to play football now!

PERSONAL
Jochen 'L Iceman' Schoeller.
Born in 1978.
German
read his profile

DATE LEFT
November, 2005. Returned to Germany

PERSONAL
Ted Jankowski.
British

DATE LEFT
Still in Beijing, but travels too much to be available for games.

PERSONAL
Robert Zhao.
Age 36 [2005]

DATE LEFT
Still in Beijing, but no longer playing for FCFC

PERSONAL
Marcus Grant.
Finnish from Stockport?!, or more accurately ... English from Sheffield via Helsinki.

SQUAD
Joined August '05
Currently 'on loan' from HDS
Express see HDS website

October 2005, returned to Finland.

PERSONAL
Kelven Fu.
Chinese.

SQUAD
Hasn't been seen in Beijing for some time ... but turned out when we needed him on 17

PERSONAL
Simon Bignell.
British.

SQUAD
Midfield / Defence

Left Beijing for South America May 2007.

PERSONAL
Tobias Johansson
Swede
Born 1976

SQUAD
Defender / midfielder

Returned to Sweden Summer 2007.

PERSONAL
Richard Young

SQUAD
Goalkeeper
Joined the City in Winter 2006

Left for Macao Summer 2007.

PERSONAL:
Renato Carvalho do Nascimento
Brazilian

SQUAD:
Forward, joined the City in winter 2006

Went absent over the summer 2007.

PERSONAL:
Salem Chennafi

SQUAD:
Midfield
Transferred from the Wanderers.
Disappeared for a while to raise a family, now seems to be playing for French LE

PERSONAL
Nagui Ghaba,
Egyptian
Born: 25/2/1978

The Egyptian Olympic attaché for the Beijing Olympic Games, and vice consul in the Egyptian Embassy in Beijing

SQUAD
Goalkeeper. FCFC debut in goal on 25th March 2007. Came back from Egypt October '07 and signed up to Afrika.

PERSONAL
Uli Krumme.
German.

DATE LEFT
Retired to Singapore in 2004! But still a Tour verteran and bumps into us at the strangest places