{"id":584793,"date":"2026-08-06T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/584793\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T08:40:09","slug":"players-who-turned-world-cup-heroics-into-big-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/584793\/","title":{"rendered":"Players who turned World Cup heroics into big transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Similar to Vozinha, Marc-Vivien Foe was an unknown name before the 1994 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite Cameroon&#8217;s disappointing World Cup campaign in the USA, compared to their historic run in 1990, Foe emerged as one of the team&#8217;s best performers during his debut tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A standout game against Brazil caught attention, which then led to a free transfer from Cameroon&#8217;s Canon Yaounde to French side Lens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Foe spent four years at Lens and helped them achieve their first league title in the 1997-98 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also played for West Ham United, Manchester City and Lyon, where he won the French League Cup and Lyon&#8217;s first Ligue 1 title in 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Foe tragically passed away in June 2003 after he collapsed during a Confederations Cup semi-final against Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Similar to Vozinha, Marc-Vivien Foe was an unknown name before the 1994 World Cup. Despite Cameroon&#8217;s disappointing World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-584793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}