But the Dunedin Technical veteran is happy to concede that victory in this weekend's Chatham Cup final would be as good as it gets.
He was there 10 years ago, when Tech was beaten 5-0 by Central United, and he will be there again on Saturday when the Dunedin club tries to beat East Coast Bays at North Harbour Stadium.
"I had that disappointment in 1998 and it wasn't a nice feeling to get thumped the way we did," Scoullar recalled yesterday.
"Winning a Chatham Cup would rank with the time I spent in America, when I won a championship. But it would probably be a bit more special because it's more personal.
"I've been here before with the club and there's a sense of history there. It means so much to a club like Dunedin Tech. It's got a family feel to it, a few of us been there a long time and we know what this would mean to the club and our supporters."
At 29, Scoullar is now the elder statesman of the Tech squad, though he delights in pointing out he is a few months younger than striker Aaron Burgess.
He's also the most far-flung Technical player.
While his team-mates study or work in Dunedin, Scoullar works as a representative for a building company in Cromwell, and gets to train only once a week with his colleagues.
"I'm sort of preparing by myself a lot of the time, training and in the gym and out running.
"It's hard, especially this week. I'd like to be there all week because there will be a lot of excitement in the camp."
Many people assume Scoullar shared in the glory of 1999, when Technical won its first Chatham Cup with a 4-0 shellacking of Waitakere in the final.
But he didn't.
He'd made the New Zealand under-23 side and been encouraged to relocate to Auckland to prepare for the qualifying run for the Sydney Olympics.
"I played for Mt Wellington that year and enjoyed it. I do sometimes wonder what might have been and what I missed out on with Dunedin Tech. But you can't have any regrets."
A midfielder or forward for most of his career, Scoullar has emerged as a reliable central defender for Tech.
You'd need to take a deep breath to recite the list of clubs he has represented.
He has played club football in New Zealand for Dunedin Technical, Mt Wellington, Gisborne City and Roslyn-Wakari, and national league football for Otago United and Canterbury United.
Overseas, he played for American teams Charleston Battery, with which he won the United Football League's first division, and Austin Posse, for Ballymena United (Northern Ireland) and for ASV Cham (Germany).
Scoullar said Tech was extra-motivated to win the Cup final as it reflected on the disappointment of again falling short in the Soccersouth premier league.
"It can be hard when you've got your eye on so many competitions, the league, Chatham Cup, South Island championship, the local cup.
"You try to get that balance between league and cup. We knew we hurt ourselves in the league by losing a key game in the first round.
"That's out of the way. We're disappointed about the league but you've got to move on.
"We're now looking ahead to a one-off game that you have to get up for. And it's something pretty special."
