The midfielder had already broken into the Arsenal team when the game came out, and he'd go on to captain the Gunners before leaving to rejoin Barcelona in 2011.Ĭhelsea later followed for one of the finest midfielders of his generation. He still managed 28 caps for his country, but injury and discipline problems ensured that the former Portsmouth man didn't quite kick on the way many expected, and he ended his career at Congolese club TP Mazembe in 2017. Anthony Vanden Borre – Anderlechtĭestined for type of career Kompany had as he emerged alongside him at Anderlecht, instead things went in a different direction for another Belgian defender. He enjoyed success at APOEL in Cyprus though, and retired in 2016 having just won the award for the Cypriot Division's top scorer. Fernando Cavenaghi – Spartak MoscowĪ young goalscoring star at River Plate, Cavenaghi could never quite cut it at international level and had spells in Europe at Bordeaux, Mallorca and Villarreal in between three stints at his first club. One of the stars of these games – and probably one of the reasons you're here, too – the 15-year-old signed with DC United in 2004 and then embarked on the type of career he wasn't exactly supposed to have.Īdu drifted through several clubs in the US, Portugal, France, Greece, Turkey, Brazil, Serbia and Finland, before last being seen at the Las Vegas Lights in the USL Championship in 2018. Much more would follow in a rich and storied career, and he's now back in Argentina with an Estudiantes outfit whose chairman is one Juan Sebastian Veron. Incredibly, Mascherano's senior international debut for Argentina came before he'd even played a first-team game for River Plate, and he was then whisked off to Corinthians along with Tevez in 2005. Now 35, he's set to rejoin former club Shanghai Shenhua once football can resume. The quicksilver forward was playing for Inter's first-team in his teens, and he was soon to embark on a career that would take him all around the world and back – via Newcastle and Birmingham City. Then his English adventure began a year later at West Ham. Carlos Tevez – Boca JuniorsĪlready on the radar of several top European clubs at the end of 2004, Tevez would eventually head to Brazil with Corinthians for the start of the following season. Liverpool awaited in 2007, and for a couple of years there he was arguably the best striker in the world.
The great hope of Atletico Madrid, Torres had taken the captain's armband at the club when he was still a teenager, and he'd also begun to establish himself in the Spain team. Iconic status at Manchester City would eventually follow. Still in his teens in 2005, it would be another year before Kompany moved on from Anderlecht and to the Bundelsiga with Hamburg. Lahm scored the first goal of the 2006 World Cup and lifted the trophy eight years later. Sign them up! Philipp Lahm – Bayern Munichīack from two seasons on loan at Stuttgart and having already picked up his first Germany caps, in 2005 the 21-year-old was starting out a storied career in which he'd win almost everything.
Here we take a look at that game's best youngsters, and catch up on just what they've been up to in the real world in the past 15 years. Which brings us to Football Manager 2005. While the modern game is, of course, packed with incredible features, sometimes it can better to return to an old version and try your luck there. But which version of the game are you going to play?
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