After Andre Onana was sent home from this World Cup, we look at five others who left in disgrace. Though don't say that to Roy Keane...
The France striker enjoyed even greater support from his team-mates than Effenburg. The entire squad was willing to shut itself on a bus in an effort to embarrass Raymond Domenech, which they certainly achieved. The sight of the beleaguered coach reading out a statement from his dissenting players, like a hostage reciting his lines to camera, was perhaps the most pathetic episode in a series of national disgraces.
The coach read the players’ statement: “We regret the incident at half-time of the France v Mexico match, but we regret even more the divulging of an event which was only the squad’s business and was part and parcel of the life of a top-level team. For his part in the shambles, Anelka received an 18-match ban from the FFF, a sanction he considered to have “no relevance whatsoever” because he had no intention of returning to the international scene.Did he jump or was he pushed? To this day, there remains some mystery over exactly how the 2002 World Cup campaign was brought to a stunning and premature end for Keane.
“You’re a f**king w*nker. I didn’t rate you as a player, I don’t rate you as a manager and I don’t rate you as a person. You’re a f**king w*nker and you can stick your World Cup up your arse. I’ve got no respect for you. The only reason I have any dealings with you is that somehow you are the manager of my country. You can stick it up your bollocks.”Nikola KalinicKalinic, by then a 10-year veteran for his national team, was to serve as Mario Mandzukic’s back-up in Zlatko Dalic’s squad.
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