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6 - William Moreira (Moroka Swallows)
If the honest truth is to be told, only the average Brazilian footballers can end up in the PSL.
Typical of Brazilians, Moreira was blessed with skill but appeared to be more of a ball-juggler than a footballer. Always wanted the ball to his feet instead of in space which infuriated his teammates.
Without the ball at his feet he offered nothing else as he used to walk back like an old man on his farm. Many of the ageing Swallows fans who attended home games at the run-down George Goch Stadium during the 1997/98 season will not have anything positive to recall about Moreira as he left without scoring in the 16 games he started (plus five substitute appearances).
The only contribution made by this Brazilian was in the 1997 Iwisa Charity Spectacular semi-final against Orlando Pirates when he ran rings around the Bucs defence in front of a packed FNB Stadium as he sought to convince the Birds to sign him.
He was then sent off in the second League game of the season away at SuperSport United and there wasn’t much that he did after that, forcing Swallows boss David Chabeli to book him an early ticket back to Brazil.
When his fellow countryman Jayr Mazzoni took over the following year he didn’t even make an effort to bring him back. He was purely a disaster and played a hand towards the team’s struggles that year with his pedestrian approach to the game.