The world champions who never played a minute

Of the 736 players taking part in the World Cup, only 23 will remain with glory. But how many of those future champions get the chance to play well? Obviously, as the math dictates, this number of football players is two teams of 11 for seven matches, plus a goalkeeper to spare, and therefore, throughout the history of World Cups is given that not all those called up had the luxury of seeing action.

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Doubtless, the first to sign up to be omitted are the substitute goalkeepers. Digits recognized as Victor Valdés, Pepe Reina, Angelo Peruzzi, Marco Amelia, Dida and Rogério Ceni They are some of those who could not displace the starters in the last three World Cups and therefore did not participate in any competition.

But there are also recognized figures who were also not in the plans of the technicians. In Argentina, the cases of Daniel Killer and Rubén Galván in 1978 and of Daniel Alberto Passarella and Sergio Omar Almirón in 1986 stood out.. apart from them, there were two specific cases during the World Cup in Mexico: Ricardo Bochini and Enrique Trobbiani played only a few minutes. The boules came on after 85 minutes against Belgium, while mandrake he made it to the final on time.

At an international level, several renowned football players can be highlighted. Naturally is particularly notable for Ronaldo’s absence from the United States in 1994, although he was only a young man of 17 years old. You can point behind him Frank Mill and Paul Steiner in Italy 1990, Franco Baresi in Spain 1982 Y Coutinho in Chile 1962among many others.

Of course no one can take away the trophy they have well deserved, but they themselves are the ones who over the years have minimized their performance for the simple fact of not playing for a minute. Perhaps Mill was the one who best described it: “I can call myself a World Cup winner, but I don’t feel that way… “.

In Russia 2018 There were two football players from the French team who did not play during the tournament: Alphonso Areola and Adil Rami. In front of Qatar 2022the Gauls are again in the definition of the tournament and the name of Areola could be repeated among those champions who have not seen minutes in a champion team, this time accompanied by Karim Benzema, who has not played due to injury.

In Qatar 2022, the formula of the previous edition was repeated. Added to the list are the two replacement goalkeepers for the Albiceleste, Geronimo Rolli Y Franco Armani.

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