Roger Milla
Players who danced one summer
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Roger Milla
How old was he in the end?
Roger Milla
38 years old at Italia 90.
He was class in that tournament.
I think you got your numbers the wrong way round
This guy didn't 'dance' so to speak. But I remember him being bigged up and linked to us (and everyone else) in Match magazine years ago.
Carlos Alberto
Carlos Alberto
Alpay
Alpay was selected for the Team of the Tournament for the 2002 World Cup, which probably says more about the 2002 World Cup than it does about him. His form led to him being linked with a move away from Aston Villa, something he was quite keen on doing, but no big money move ever happened and he rarely played for Villa again and he and the Villa fans pretty openly despised each other. His name is almost muesli.
Alpay was selected for the Team of the Tournament for the 2002 World Cup, which probably says more about the 2002 World Cup than it does about him. His form led to him being linked with a move away from Aston Villa, something he was quite keen on doing, but no big money move ever happened and he rarely played for Villa again and he and the Villa fans pretty openly despised each other. His name is almost muesli.
Mauro Zárate
Remember his season with Birmingham City?
FUT legend
Dani Guiza
Scored 27 league goals for Getafe and made it into their 2008 Euros squad. Hasn't done much since. Wiki says he's at Cerro Porteno.
Good shout.
In African footballer years maybe.
Yes he was, in 1980
Gary Breen.
Went from Gary Breen, to Franco Baresi then back to Gary Breen all in the space of 3 months in that fateful summer of 2002.
Was probably 14 for about 6 years.
This guy didn't 'dance' so to speak. But I remember him being bigged up and linked to us (and everyone else) in Match magazine years ago.
Carlos Alberto
Good one. He had a great year at Porto and was one of the youngest players to score in the final of the Champions League. Mourinho was a big fan of him. Was bought by the Kia Joorabchian fund MSI and got lost in Brazilian football playing for 8 clubs and failing in all. Clearly a wasted talent. Made the wrong choice to sign with Kia and leave Europe.
Jared Borgetti
Looked a deadly striker in the Confederations Cup and had people raving about him. Went to Bolton and I have no idea how the rest of this story goes, but I don't remember hearing anything about him when he was at Bolton or after.
Looked a deadly striker in the Confederations Cup and had people raving about him. Went to Bolton and I have no idea how the rest of this story goes, but I don't remember hearing anything about him when he was at Bolton or after.
Jardel went to Bolton too after scoring about 2 million goals in Portugal.
Marco Negri is another at Rangers. Scored about 30 goals in half a season and disappeared. 
Good article here:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-marco-negri-1.869011
Good article here:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-marco-negri-1.869011
El Hadji Diouf
Impressed with Senegal at the 2002 World Cup, being picked for the team of the tournament, before earning a £10 million move to Liverpool. Has been in the news for all the wrong reasons since, with numerous controversies, topped off with Neil Warnock referring to him as a sewer rat, only then to go on and sign him for Leeds.
Impressed with Senegal at the 2002 World Cup, being picked for the team of the tournament, before earning a £10 million move to Liverpool. Has been in the news for all the wrong reasons since, with numerous controversies, topped off with Neil Warnock referring to him as a sewer rat, only then to go on and sign him for Leeds.
charlie adam. both denilsons.
He's Mexico's highest ever goalscorer with 46 in 89.
George Burley was actually excellent at Hearts and they were top of the league - ahead of both Rangers and Celtic - when he left the club.
Absolutely gash everywhere else he has been mind.
Daniel Amokachi. First player to score in the champions league format. Had a good world cup 94, signed for Everton for big money at the time and didn't impress.
Good shout. Also scored a ridiculous flick header at the 2002 World Cup
Darko Kovacevic?
Trevor Sinclair.
After Owen Hargreaves got injured (whaaaaat?) at the 02 World Cup, Sinclair was subbed onto the infamous "problem left side," and was Englands best attacking player for 3 games. He then returned to bumming around lower level Premier League clubs for a few years, achieving nothing. Scored an overhead kick once
After Owen Hargreaves got injured (whaaaaat?) at the 02 World Cup, Sinclair was subbed onto the infamous "problem left side," and was Englands best attacking player for 3 games. He then returned to bumming around lower level Premier League clubs for a few years, achieving nothing. Scored an overhead kick once
James Beattie
Francis Jeffers
Good one.
Marcus Stewart
Turned up one season with newly promoted Ipswich Town and then somewhat inexplicably finished the season as the league's second top scorer with 19 goals, and well over 20 in all comps. Ipswich equally inexplicably finished fifth, leading Caf poster Melbourne Red to regard their manager George Burley as some sort of managerial messiah, and look on in bafflement as he failed in what seemed like every successive job, including a sub-par stint at Hearts, and then another stint as a commentator on Sky, which was even subber-par.
But anyway, this is about Marcus Stewart. And Marcus Stewart turned out to be one of countless Premier League striking flashes-in-the-pan, doing very little in front of goal as Ipswich slid down the table to an eventual relegation two seasons later. Stewart also played for Sunderland for a bit, proved to be a bit crap there, and then spent the rest of his days bouncing around the football league.
He now coaches the youth teams at Bristol Rovers.
EDIT: Just realised this is about people who had one good tournament. Erm, yes. Carry on.
If Huddersfield hadnt' have sold Stewart late into that season to Ipswich, I think they'd have been promoted instead of them... instead, they're still one of only 5 teams currently in the Championship who have never got to experience Premier League Football. (and if you go by Average Attendance - they're the biggest team to still not have done so).
Alpay
Alpay was selected for the Team of the Tournament for the 2002 World Cup, which probably says more about the 2002 World Cup than it does about him. His form led to him being linked with a move away from Aston Villa, something he was quite keen on doing, but no big money move ever happened and he rarely played for Villa again and he and the Villa fans pretty openly despised each other. His name is almost muesli.
Wasn't he basically hounded out of Villa by the British media and the Sun toting Little Inglanders? I vaguely remember some sort of World Cup incident with Beckham, and after that he became public enemy number one in the UK. I was about 12 when it happened and still remember how ridiculous the whole country was being. I'm sure it was on the back of the controversy with England's golden boy that Villa were basically pressured into getting rid of Alpay.
Saeed Al-Owaira
Oleg Salenko
Stanic?
Salif Diao?
Ali Dia has to be the biggest surely?
Oleg Salenko
Stanic?
Salif Diao?
Ali Dia has to be the biggest surely?
He got in Beckham's face in a qualifier and was released by Villa shortly afterwards.
I was thinking Christian Benitez, but looking at his stats for Birmingham they were worse than I thought
Ever in his life?
Michael Ricketts
I know the thread title suggests we mention players who dazzled at a major tournament only never to be seen again, but surely Michael Ricketts deserves a mention as arguably the worst player who almost played in a World Cup Finals. He scored a shitload of goals at the beginning of the 2001/02 season which prompted his then Bolton manager Sam Allardyce to compare him to - bizarrely - Ruud van Nistelrooy. His Premier League form impressed Sven Goran Eriksson (he of Chris Powell, Darius Vassell, Francis Jeffers, Jloyd Samuel, Anthony Gardner, Matt Jansen, Sean Davis and Gavin McCann fame) enough to select him to play for England, which Ricketts inexplicably did.
Ricketts started that fateful game against Holland but was hauled off after 45 minutes, presumably for not being Ruud van Nistelrooy-enough. His sole England humiliation signalled the end of his prolific club form and he never scored another goal again. Ever.
Ricketts started that fateful game against Holland but was hauled off after 45 minutes, presumably for not being Ruud van Nistelrooy-enough. His sole England humiliation signalled the end of his prolific club form and he never scored another goal again. Ever.
Milan Baros
Turned up one summer at Euro 2004 where he scored an inordinate of goals that defied his actual ability. His career was then interspersed with an inexplicable moment in modern football history whereby he actually won a Champions League winners medal as the starting striker in a final. Last seen at Galatasaray being flagged offside. Presumed dead.
I've only just realised Milan Baros and Chris Coleman are the same person.
I didn't specify just international tournaments, hence the inclusion of Zaki.
Milan Baros
Turned up one summer at Euro 2004 where he scored an inordinate of goals that defied his actual ability. His career was then interspersed with an inexplicable moment in modern football history whereby he actually won a Champions League winners medal as the starting striker in a final. Last seen at Galatasaray being flagged offside. Presumed dead.
Baros was always decent for the Czech's wasn't he? A bit of Klose lite.
I also remember Joaquin and Vicente. Two of my first ever experiences of transfer muppetry here. I don't think they ever actually did anything.
I remember one of them was at Brighton a year or two back.