The Best Athletes Never To Win The World Cup

Published on 07/02/2018
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Vincent Kompany

Let’s talk about Vincent Kompany for a minute. To begin, Kompany impressively made his international debut at only 17 for Belgium in 2004 and is one of the youngest players ever to do so. Who could forget Belgium’s qualifying game in 2013 when they beat Serbia 2–1 World Cup? Not many! Especially after Kompany collided with goalkeeper Vladimir Stojković and suffered a concussion, broken nose and cracked eye-socket. Since 2008, he’s been playing for Manchester City.

Vincent Kompany

Vincent Kompany

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Rinat Dasayev

You’re looking at the second best Russian goalkeeper, after Lev Yashin. Dasayev is known as the greatest keeper of the 80’s. “The Iron Curtain” made it incredibly difficult to net in a goal. Even though the USSR won bronze at the 1980 Olympics and silver in the 1988 Euro Championships, they didn’t get ever get to the World Cup qarterfinals.

Rinat Dasayev

Rinat Dasayev

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