Beckham, Ronaldo And 12 Stars Who famously Flopped At The World Cup

Gracing the grandest stage in football should be considered the pinnacle of a playing career, but for many that global dream has become a disaster.

David Beckham

The first outing at a major international tournament for the poster boy of English football ended in red card shame following an ill-advised flick of his right foot into the legs of Diego Simeone. Redemption would be achieved by the Manchester United and Real Madrid legend in the years which followed, but only after ‘Golden Balls’ had become the subject of burning effigies and terrace taunts at just about every stadium away from Old Trafford.

Ronaldo

The best player on the planet heading into France '98 and a man anticipated that would fire an elegant Brazil side to World Cup radiance. Everything would get ready for Ronaldo before a last date with the hosts, with four objectives recorded in transit to a masterpiece event at Stade de France. Things began to disentangle before long in Paris, however, with 'O Fenomeno' enduring a pre-coordinate seizure which gave an unwelcome diversion and left him a sorry excuse for the player he was would even now move toward becoming. 

Zinedine Zidane

A legend on home soil in 1998, one of the unequaled greats persevered through a fairly checkered World Cup history starting there. Four years on from his two-objective last heroics, Zidane saw damage limit him to only one excursion in a lowering gathering stage exit for the holders. It was, in any case, in 2006 that he would bear the most irking of World Cup minutes, with seeing him headbutting Marco Materazzi one which will live long in the memory for the majority of the wrong reasons. 

Gonzalo Higuain

Without question a standout amongst the most fearsome frontmen in European football, with his family having been demonstrated at any semblance of Real Madrid, Napoli, and Juventus. Higuain does, in any case, tend to cushion his lines when it makes a difference most for Argentina. Missed a punishment in the 2015 Copa America last and wasted a brilliant shot in a 2016 rehash with Chile. He had passed by at that point, with his failure to change over any of the odds which came his way in the 2014 World Cup last costing Argentina dear. 

David Luiz

The showy Brazilian has never been famous for his cautious ability, with the Samba style going through his veins guaranteeing that he is never too far from a surge of blood which prompts him settling on faulty choices. Compelled to demonstrate that he could be depended upon to hold the indirect access rushed for Brazil at home finals in 2014, Luiz was left miserably uncovered without Thiago Silva to convey him in a 7-1 semi-last destroying by Germany. 

Nicolas Anelka

'Le Sulk' satisfied a somewhat terrible epithet in the fabulous mold at the 2010 World Cup, with France bearing one more of the implosions which have turned out to be excessively regular in their ongoing global history. In South Africa, things were at that point going severely when Anelka dropped out with mentor Raymond Domenech and was sent home in disrespect. Before that, he had taken in over 400 minutes of football for France without shooting in a solitary shot! 

Fernando Torres

Torres will point to the way that he finished the 2010 World Cup with a champs' decoration as evidence that he was no flounder, yet Spain apparently won despite him instead of as a result of him. Unmistakably no longer the player he was while moving Euro 2008 transcendence for La Roja, the then Liverpool striker squandered incalculable possibilities before objective before, in the end, being dropped by Vicente del Bosque for the semi-finals and last in South Africa.

Wayne Rooney

Once the brilliant kid of the English amusement and the Three Lions' unsurpassed driving goalscorer, yet only one of the 53 endeavors he oversaw for his nation came at the World Cup finals. Rooney's first trip among the worldwide tip-top came in 2006 and ended up being an event to overlook. Battling for wellness on the back of a broken metatarsal, the Manchester United star saw red in a quarter-last conflict with Portugal for a stamp on Ricardo Carvalho – prompting Cristiano Ronaldo's notorious winking scene. 

Frank Rijkaard

The Netherlands may have imagined 'Add up to Football' with Johan Cruyff and Co. in the 1970s, yet it was their class of the 80s which conveyed substantial achievement as a Euro '88 triumph. Two years on and an elegant side was required to do well at Italia '90. They didn't and Rijkaard, only one of a few prominent players to flounder, saw his competition end in disfavor in the wake of being discovered spitting at West Germany striker Rudi Voller. 

Fabio Cannavaro

Never famous for his pace, however at 36 years old a notorious figure inside the Italy positions was obviously well past his best by 2010. The 'Berlin Wall' of 2006 had begun to disintegrate four years on, with a progression of incompetent presentations, which incorporated various unique errors, featuring how far the Azzurri as a group had fallen as the supreme champions were asked to take a hike at the gathering stage. 

Iker Casillas

Tumbling from the best can be a difficult affair, as Casillas discovered to his cost in Brazil. Spain had commanded the football scene for various years, gathering one World Cup and two European Championships, yet a brilliant age had lost its sparkle when it touched base in Brazil. Casillas embodied the holders' go wrong, gifting the Netherlands two objectives in a devastating 5-1 opening thrashing before going ahead to toll minimal better in a 2-0 inversion against Chile. Was swapped by Pepe Reina for a dead elastic against Australia. 

Steven Gerrard

Will properly stand out forever as a Liverpool legend and one of the finest midfielders of his age. Gerrard was, be that as it may, unfit to secure a notable remaining with England as he attempted to recreate his local shape on a universal stage. Passed up a great opportunity for the 2002 World Cup through damage, was among those to miss from the spot as England tumbled out in 2006, skippered the side in 2010 and 2014, however, took in the remainder of his 114 appearances off the seat following another bleak appearing from the Three Lions in Brazil.