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Best non european player to have played for City?

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Alf Ackerman 70 apps 35 goals is a pretty good ratio......way before my time anyone remember him or see him play??

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[quote user="Sports Desk Pete"]

Top foreign players
(appearances, goals)

1 Sandy Kennon (South Africa, 59-64) 255/0
2 Dennis Van Wyk (Holland, 82-86) 155/4
3 Errol Crossan (Canada, 58-60) 116/32
4 Steen Nedergaard (Denmark, 00-03) 97/5
5 Youssef Safri (Morocco, 04-07) 92/4
6 Alf Ackerman (South Africa, 51-53) 70/35
7 Erik Fuglestad (Norway, 97-00) 82/2
8 Dickson Etuhu (Nigeria, 05-07) 70/7
9 David Nielsen (Denmark, 01-03) 66/14
10 Jurgen Colin (Holland, 05-07) 64/0

Other foreign players to have played for City: Matty Pattison (South Africa, 07-09) 55/3, Aage Hareide (Norway, 82-84) 54/3, Jim Brennan (Canada, 03-06) 48/2, Mathias Svensson (Sweden, 03-05) 44/11, Marc Libbra (France, 01-02) 38/7, Jean Yves de Blasiis (France, 99-01) 38/0, Victor Segura (Spain, 97-99) 33/0, Mattias Jonson (Sweden, 04-05) 30/0, Cedric Anselin (France, 98-01) 29/1, Jens Berthel Askou (Denmark, 09-present) 27/2, Fernando Derveld (Holland, 99-01) 25/1, Henrik Mortensen (Denmark, 89-91) 23/2, Drazen Muzinic (Yugoslavia, 80-81) 23/0, Thomas Helveg (Denmark, 04-05) 23/0, Mo Camara (Guinea, 08) 23/0, Arturo Lupoli (Italy, 08-09) 20/5, Gaetano Giallanza (Switzerland, 99-02) 18/5, Antoine Sibierski (France, 08-09) 16/2, Leroy Lita (DR Congo, 08-09) 16/7, Raymond de Waard (Holland, 99-01) 13/0, Jonatan Johansson (Finland, 05-06) 12/3, Dejan Stefanovic (Serbia, 08-09) 12/0, David Strihavka (Czech Republic, 07) 11/1, Julien Brellier (France, 07) 11/0, Pape Diop (Senegal, 99-00) 10/0, David Carney (Australia, 09) 9/0, Omar Koroma (Gambia, 08/09) 6/0, Jan Molby (Denmark, 95-96) 5/1, Ulf Ottoson (Sweden, 97) 5/1, Paul Peschisolido (Canada, 01) 5/0, Chris Killen (New Zealand, 09) 4/0, Adrian Leijer (Australia, 09) 4/0, Zak Whitbread (10-present, USA) 4/0, Juan Velasco (Spain, 08) 3/0, Mathieu Louis-Jean (France, 05-07) 2/0, Goran Maric (Serbia, 09-10) 2/0, Maceo Rigters (Holland, 08) 2/0, Dario Dumic (Denmark, 09-10) 1/0, Michael Theoklitos (Australia, 09/10) 1/0.

Total: Denmark 7, France 6, Holland 5, Australia 3, Canada 3, South Africa 3, Sweden 3, Norway 2, Serbia 2, Spain 2, Czech Republic 1, DR Congo 1, Italy 1, Finland 1, Gambia 1, Guinea 1, Morocco 1, New Zealand 1, Nigeria 1, Senegal 1, Switzerland 1, USA 1, Yugoslavia 1.

City players born abroad but British: Kevin Keelan (India), Dave Phillips (Germany), Jeremy Goss (Cyprus), George Laxton (Brazil), Francis Peed (Argentina) and Harold Osborne (South Africa).

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Thread spoiler! But very interesting nonetheless.[;)]

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