Who has you thinking 'why was he picked ?'. My suggestions: 1. Anrea Silenzi, Italy 1 cap: A useless striker who once played for Nottingham Forest. Alan Hansen famously remarked "If he is an international player, then the other 22 players must have been injured." 2. Michael Ricketts, England 1 cap: Big burly forward who was capped by Sven after half a good season with Bolton around 2001. Now playing for Cardiff, after playing for Middlesborough and Leeds, post financial collapse.
Phil Neville - 57 caps for England (or something equally mental), and was earning £50,000 per week at Man U. The world had gone mad.
when chriss powell came in, england had bo one at left back, cole was too much of a gamble and le saux was a liability in international games if u want the worst capped player ever, by miles : steve guppy, how in the hell did he get a cap, ill tell u, because england have zero left wingers. another we tried was steven froggatt, my god what a national disgrace. then again, france still have jean alain boumsong as their cb, and somehow roque jr is still in the brazil nt, one poor spell from him, could be only twenty minutes of madness, and brazil could be going home empty handed(a lot of coulds in this sentence)
there is worse than maza. maza is quite as bad as people make him out to be. he could be NT material in the future, but not now. meza and lavolpe have made worse call ups than that. omar blanco comes to mind. the buddy system is not effective in interinational competitions. they need to learn that.
Gustavo Dezotti for Argentina. He played at Italia 90. His profile said that he was a striker but he didn't play like one. Add Marco Materazzi to this list as well as former Socceroo international, David Zdrillic. Zdrillic has to be one of the worst strikers I've seen. He makes Andrea Carnevale look like a World Class striker and I'm not a big fan of Carnevale.
I'm guessing you mean worst player capped by a credible football nation, because all of them are still far better than anyone American Samoa can come up with. One candidate: Luther Blissett - played a number of times for England. Actually scored three goals in his England career, though it must be noted that all three were in the same match. Most noted for: signing with AC Milan on the Italian club's mistaken belief that he was John Barnes; and becoming an icon for Italian anarchist groups. And a whole slew of candidates: most of the USA squad that played Peru on October 16, 1996. By this time, of course, the US was a quite credible footballing nation, having advanced to the second round of the previous World Cup, and gone on to score some pretty stunning wins in 1995. The lineup that was trotted out in this friendly, though: --------------------------- Mark Dodd Tim Martin - Lawrence Lozzano - Tayt Ianni - Zak Ibsen - Eddie Lewis --------- Jorge Flores -------- Dario Brose -------- Scott Benedetti ------------------- Jean Harbor --------- Ted Eck Subs used: Mac Cozier (for Jean Harbor 32') Joey Leonetti (for Jorge Flores at half) Paul Holocher (for Ted Eck 60') Ramiro Corrales (for Scott Benedetti 80') Of all these players, only Lewis and Corrales would ever be capped again; and even then Lewis got his next cap in November of 1998, while Corrales appeared in a couple friendlies in January 1997 and afterward got his next cap in 2004. Several of the players were career USL players (the lower divisions in the US for those who aren't familiar with the US league system) who never even played in MLS after the 1996 season (which, being the league's first season, of course, featured a lot of roster turnover). Needless to say, even a weak Peru squad had no trouble disposing of this joke of a team by a 4-1 score.
It was a rumor. The story went something liked that. Both of them played for Watford. The AC Milan scouts went to see watford. Barnes played well in that game, but the scout thought he was Blissett so they signed him instead. but it was just a theory.
It can happen. There were three Wallace brothers who played at Southampton in the late 1980's, with Rod Wallace, a striker, being the best. Alex Ferguson signed one of the others by mistake.
bobby robson did the same, he sent an agent to wimbledon to get who he thought was jason eull, and they came back with kyle cort for 7m quid. what a ******** up
Robbie Stockdale Lee Wilkie Kevin Kyle Warren Cummings Stephen Crainey Gareth Williams Paul Devlin Graeme Murty Richard Hughes Peter Canero Andy Gray David Marshall Stephen Pearson Paul Gallacher Michael Stewart Steve Thompson How these players managed to get capped for Scotland i'll never kno...oh wait I do know why, B*rti V*gts was in charge at the time
like the theory that real madrid signed graveson because they thought he was all over the pitch, when actually he wasnt they just thought him and lee carsley were the same player.
For a couple of years Thompson would've been a good addition to the England squad. He was excellent the year Celtic went to the UEFA cup final. By the time he did get capped, about a year later, he was just over the hill and started onto the slippery slide to how shite he is now.
Bert Konterman was awful, have to agree with you on that one! Regi Blinker got capped , how the hell did that happen?!
Blinker got three caps in the early nineties, he posessed some fotographs of Dick Advocaat performing some dodgy activities.
David Regis (USA, 98WC) Serginho, Valdir Peres (Brazil, 82WC) Edmundo (BRA, 98WC) Hugo Sancehz (Mexico, 86 and 94WC)
Five-time Pichichi, joint record holder for most Liga Primera goals in a single season, and second most prolific goalscorer in Liga Primera history Hugo Sanchez? This has to be a joke.
WTF? Serginho Chulapa was Brazil´s best goalscorer at the time (scored 248 goals for my team São Paulo) and Valdir Perez, a great keeper (remember him saving two Paul Breitner penalty kicks in a friendly before the world cup?).