Only player to represent 3 different nations at 3 world cups?
- Thread starter Daljam
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Stankovic?
vancy
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Great shout
Japandroid
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Is it not one of our ex-players, Kuznetzov or Mikhailichenko? USSR, CIS and Ukraine?
Edit - CIS didn't play at the World Cup. Thanks @Main Stand and @Baz
Edit - CIS didn't play at the World Cup. Thanks @Main Stand and @Baz
CIS played in the Euros in 1992 not World Cup
CIS never played at a World Cup.
Japandroid
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Ataturk
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Bastard beat me to it
Aye. Yugoslav, Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia
Tino_Col
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di
He played for Colombia. Not at a WC though. Not sure if he appeared for Italy.
Valley Bluenose
RTV? Completed it mate!
Bizarrely, Di Stefano never played in a World Cup.
International career[edit]
Di Stéfano played with three different national teams during his career, scoring 6 goals in 6 appearances for Argentina, and 23 in 31 appearances for Spain. However, he never played in the World Cup. Di Stéfano also played four times for Colombia, during the Dimayor period of Colombian football. The team at the time was not recognised by FIFA as the league had broken transfer rules in signing players while still under contract.
Alfredo Di Stéfano - Wikipedia
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Don’t think he ever played at a World Cup for any of the nations
Ataturk
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Him and Carlos Alberto Parreira both managed five teams at World Cups but CAP did two with Brazil so he holds the record with six in total I think.
GovanFront4
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Didn’t Miko captain 3?
Ataturk
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He missed the 1990 WC through injury but he definitely captained the CIS at Euro 92.
Fun fact: Former Celtic ‘star’ Dmitri Kharine is the record caps holder for CIS with eleven.
GovanFront4
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Aye wasn’t meaning WCs just knew he’d captained three which is some stat in itself. Don’t think Scottish football clubs and those in the game knew how to utilise a player like Miko.
He missed the 1990 WC through injury but he definitely captained the CIS at Euro 92.
Fun fact: Former Celtic ‘star’ Dmitri Kharine is the record caps holder for CIS with eleven.
Daljam
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I'm actually surprised at that, considering the amount of talent they would have had to choose from at that time.
He missed the 1990 WC through injury but he definitely captained the CIS at Euro 92.
Fun fact: Former Celtic ‘star’ Dmitri Kharine is the record caps holder for CIS with eleven.
SecondBestIsNothing
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Weird that we once renamed our League Cup after them
Ataturk
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You’re right, he captained the USSR team in qualifying for Euro 92 then captained the new Ukrainian team in one game, a 1-1 draw against Belarus in October 1992.
Captain of three national teams must be a record. And he may have done it all in a calendar year.
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Bastard beat me to it
Aye. Yugoslav, Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia
That's four
I was already fitba daft before him and Puskas starred in Real Madrid's Hampden final,but it felt like something really special even to a 10 year old, when I watched that masterclass in black in white.
Ataturk
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To confirm it:
The Eu-football website says that Miko captained the USSR team in November 1991, the CIS team at Euro 92, then the Ukrainian team in October 1992.
Captain of three national teams in eleven months.
Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko, international footballer
National football team player Oleksiy Oleksandrovych Mykhaylychenko<p>Mikhaylichenko</p> caps, goals, clubs, age, footballer stats by competition and year
eu-football.info
EDIT: I can’t get that link to work for some reason. It just keeps leading me to the home page. Still, you can work it out from there.
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Daljam
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That must be a record that will never be broken.
ranger nation
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Think it was a Colombian XI as FIFA didn't recognise the games.
Daljam
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I read about this quite recently, the break up of yugoslavia was complicated, it was gradual, even kosovo is a breakaway of the old yugoslavia despite only being recognised as a separate country for 5 years or so.
Tino_Col
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The Colombian league wasn't even recognised by FIFA at points! The c*nts.
tazzabear
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Di Stefano comes to mind.
Spain and Argentina for sure, no idea the third.
Valley Bluenose
RTV? Completed it mate!
Didn’t play in a World Cup mate. Covered earlier in the thread. Surprised me too.
Grimsdale
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Not Italy, Colombia.
Kanchelskis chose to represent Russia instead of Ukraine, IIRC.
carlosapicella
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My first thought was Alfredo di Stefano,but capped for Colombia,Argentine and Spain didnt play fir alk of them in a World Cup!
tazzabear
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Should be a “not like” button.
GIO GIO GIO GIOVANNI
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Kenny Miller
Drumchapel
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I knew Bruce Grobbelaar played for three nations, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe and I thought South Africa (as he was born there) but it was Matabeleland. He may be as close to playing for three African teams as possible.
ronadamus_prime
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László Kubala represented Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Spain at International level. Think the war put a stop to him playing in any world cups for Czechoslovakia or Hungary.
bilkobear
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Did he ever play in the world cup?
An often forgotten figure when people talk about the GOAT.
I grew up in a generation that held him in the same esteem as Messi today.
Argentina have produced Di Stefano, Maradona, and Messi.
Think about that.
Valley Bluenose
RTV? Completed it mate!
No, he didn't. Post #17 mate.
Alex Venters
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Colombia, not Italy.
bad boy boogie
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Di stefano
Valley Bluenose
RTV? Completed it mate!
That has been dismissed multiple times throughout the thread mate. Di Stefano NEVER played in a World Cup - for any of his three countries.
Ataturk
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I got the right answer in the first reply and people are still having a punt.
