He won 81 caps for the Croatian national side. Our Facebook and Twitter pages dedicated to the Blues will bring the conversation to you.

Following the end of his spell, he joined Everton and spent six seasons on the blue side of Merseyside. Since then, James has gone on to be a pundit for various football broadcasters, received an MBE for services to football and charity work, continued modelling and competed in the 2019 Strictly Come Dancing competition, where he would be the fourth contestant to be eliminated. He can now be found on Twitter replying to career highlights and reliving the glory days. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. Simply register as a Transfermarkt user and start collecting. Pompey celebrate on the pitch after winning the 2008 FA Cup final. This match has not been attend by any other user. His performances for Harry Redknapps side caught the eye of Liverpool boss Rafa Benitex and he would join the Reds at the end of the 2008/09 season. John Utakas cross, Enckelmans spill and Nwankwo Kanus quick thinking - the 2008 FA Cup final is a special day in the memory of Pompey fans. The long-range goal expert for Pompey Mendes was a part of the side which reached the FA Cup final but left the club at the end of that season (after playing in the Community Shield) to join Scottsh side Rangers. Following one more season on the south coast he had an unfortunate spell at Notts County where he walked out of the club after just one appearance, a brief return to Arsenal and one season at Newcastle before retiring in 2012. The FA Cup win was just the start of a trophy-laden career, and he went on to win the Champions League in his second season at Inter Milan, two Serie A titles, two Coppa Italias, two Supercoppa Italianos and a Club World Cup under Jose Mourinho at Inter. Unlike many of his former teammates, Mendes has not gone into football agency. After the elation of knocking out Manchester Uniteds soon to be Champions League winning side in the quarter final, two more 1-0 wins shot Harry Redknapps side to glory.

The Nigerian forward, capped 87 times by his country, scored that all important goal to write his name in the Portsmouth history books. After being part of the Arsenal Invincibles season, he spent two more years in North London before making the switch to Hampshire and captained the Pompey side to FA Cup glory. He is currently manager of struggling League One side Southend United. As his career started to wind down, he spent one season with newly-promoted Bournemouth before hanging up his boots for good in 2016. Referee: Martin Atkinson. Having joined Pompey in 2006 following previous spells at the likes of Manchester City, Liverpool and West Ham, James was the first choice keeper at Portsmouth for several years before their relegation. Arsenal legend and Spurs villain Sol Campbell will always be remembered as one of the finest English centre-backs of his generation and became the second youngest captain for the national side behind Bobby Moore before even signing for Pompey. Portsmouth's Glen Johnson (l), Hermann Hreidarsson and Sulley Muntari celebrate after beating Cardiff in the FA Cup final, Pedro Mendes dribbles past Cardiff City's Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Kanu scores the cup-winning goal from close range, Mendes missile, Todorov secures title: The most important Portsmouth goals of the 21st century, The eight Portsmouth players out of contract and where their futures lies, What happened to the 91 Harry Redknapp signings at Portsmouth. He spent three and half seasons at the Bernabeu winning La Lifa, the Copa del Rey and the Supercopa de Espana before joining Anzhi Makhachkala in 2012. The journeyman winger who set up the goal in the Cardiff City win enjoyed a career across the globe, playing in six countries across three continents.After three and a half seasons at Pompey, he had spells in France, Turkey and Egypt, winning Ligue Un with Montpellier in 2011/12. After two years in Glasgow, Mendes moved back to his native Portugal to join Sporting CP and ended his career in 2012 at his hometown club Vitoria Guimaraes. The Icelandic defender had an established career in English football, spending 15 years away from his native country. |7:45 AM, Old Trafford|Attendance: 75.463 After deciding not to renew his contract, he went to play for Bristol City in the Championship, where he registered his 900th career appearance, went to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and played for Bournemouth, BV Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland and Kerala Blasters in the Indian Super League before announcing his retirement.

The rock of Pompeys midifield went on to have quite the eclectic career, winning trophies across Europe either side of a spell in Russia after his Hampshire departure. He left on somewhat unfriendly terms after a dispute over unpaid wages, but made almost 150 league appearances for the club and retired with silverware under his belt in 2012. Keep up to date with all the latest news, views and analysis from Fratton Park. The trophy, an eight place Premier League finish and possibly one of the best sides in Pompey history, the season will forever be remembered fondly among supporters before years of decline at the club. He also had an established international career, having 49 Nigerian caps to his name and he has recently joined Motpellier as a youth coach. He last featured for Albacete in the Spanish Segunda Division in 2019.More recently he has been training with Ghanain side Hearts of Oak in his home country. There he would go on to make over 150 appearances for Liverpool, narrowly missing out on the Premier League title in 2013/14 under Brendan Rodgers before a spell at Stoke City. But what happened to that famous side who cemented themselves in the Pompey history books? SIgned three times by Redknapp during his career, he would also go on to play for the manager at Tottenham and QPR, either side of a four seasons at Dynamo Kiev in Ukraine. Harry Redknapps favourite player, or at least favourite signing, just slightly ahead of Jermaine Defoe and Peter Crouch, Kranjcar enjoyed three seasons at Fratton Park, the second of which being the FA Cup campaign. After the FA Cup win, Johnson would continue to shine on the right side of defence for Portsmouth and won the player of the year award the following season. Having a highly distinguished career before his move to Pompey at the likes of Arsenal, Inter Milan and Ajax, Kanu moved to Portsmouth and ended his career on the south coast. 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He would spend three years in Milan, before spells in Saudi Arabia, Italy and Spain. He would also play for New York Cosmos and Rangers before hanging up his boots in 2018. Get the latest Portsmouth FC news sent directly to your inbox. Spells at Lokomotiv Moscow, Marseille and Al Jazira led to a final career move to PSG, where he won a domestic quadruple.He retired in 2019.

With Transfermarkt's Groundhopping tool, you can collect all of your matches in one list and view lots of statistics. He had offered his services to Portsmouth once again in the summer of 2012 to play for free, but he eventually went on to manage his boyhood club IBV in Iceland, before spells managing the Fylkir mens and womens teams.

Since his FA Cup triumph and retirement in 2019, Johnson started his own real estate company and is still CEO to this day.

After saving them from relegation on the last day of the season, Campbell left the club by mutual consent and supported a winding up petition after the club reportedly owed him 180,000.

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His management career has been somewhat topsy-turvy, after years of looking for a job and speaking out about the opportunities offered to BAME wannabe managers, he joined struggling Macclesfield in League Two. He would spend another three and a half seasons with the club after the Cardiff City win but injury disrupted his last couple of years at Fratton Park and he moved to fellow Championship side Coventry City in January 2012. Why are Portsmouth and Southampton such bitter rivals? He would go on to represent England at the 2010 and 2014 World Cups and at Euro 2014 in a distinguished career for the national side. He is currently assistant manager to former teammate Sol Campbell at Southend United.

Sixth Round | The treble winning side will go down as one of the best in Inters history, but after a loan spell at Sunderland Muntari opted to join fierce rivals AC Milan. He spent a further six months with Harry Redknapps side after the FA Cup win before the club accepted a bid of around 18 million from Spanish giants Real Madrid for Diarra.

Something went wrong, please try again later. No holiday without live football? You can unsubscribe at any time. A cult hero at several clubs, Sulley Muntaris year at Portsmouth only led to bigger and better things in his career. A future Real Madrid midfielder, a Strictly Come Dancing star and a soon to be Pompey player of the season - where did that wonderful side end up?