{"id":217447,"date":"2025-10-11T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217447\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:42:09","slug":"the-man-utd-star-who-lost-his-world-cup-spot-to-ruben-amorim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217447\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Utd star who lost his World Cup spot to Ruben Amorim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2026 will be a World Cup year, and Manchester United are bound to have plenty of representation at the 48-nation tournament.<\/p>\n

The likes of Casemiro<\/a>, Noussair Mazraoui<\/a> and Patrick Dorgu<\/a> are all expected to represent their countries during the World Cup.<\/p>\n

There are also Manchester United players at risk of missing out<\/a> on a place at the World Cup for multiple reasons, while players like Kobbie Mainoo<\/a> and Diego Leon<\/a> are hopeful of receiving their first-ever World Cup call.<\/p>\n

Sadly, many great United players down the years never played at a World Cup, including George Best<\/a> and Ryan Giggs<\/a>. It\u2019s an achievement for any professional footballer to represent their country on the world stage, and there\u2019s nothing bigger than doing so at the World Cup finals. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s also becoming a worrying trend that United players are not being selected by Thomas Tuchel<\/a> for the England squad, apart from Marcus Rashford<\/a>, although he\u2019s on loan at Barcelona.<\/p>\n

\"RubenPhoto by Stuart Franklin \u2013 FIFA\/FIFA via Getty ImagesRuben Amorim replaced Nani in 2010 World Cup squad<\/p>\n

Before Ruben Amorim went into management, he had a long career as a professional footballer and made a total of 14 appearances for the Portugal national team.<\/p>\n

The United head coach appeared for Portugal at the 2007 European Under-21 Championship and would have had to wait another three years before getting his first chance in the senior team.<\/p>\n

Portugal went to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa under former United coach Carlos Queiroz, but his initial 23-man squad did not involve Amorim.<\/p>\n

Amorim received his World Cup call-up as former United winger Nani<\/a> suffered an injury to his left collarbone shortly before the tournament began. \u00a0<\/p>\n

However, Amorim went to the World Cup without having earned a senior cap for the national team. His debut came on June 15 against the Ivory Coast in the World Cup group stages. The match ended in a 0-0 draw as Amorim replaced Raul Meireles from the bench.<\/p>\n

How many World Cups did Ruben Amorim go to with Portugal?<\/p>\n

Although Amorim hardly featured at the 2010 World Cup, it wasn\u2019t the only time he got a call-up.<\/p>\n

Amorim was named among the Portugal squad for the World Cup again four years later, when he made one appearance at the tournament.<\/p>\n

It was in Portugal\u2019s final group stage match against Ghana, winning 2-1.<\/p>\n

They were eliminated after the match due to goal difference.<\/p>\n

That was Amorim\u2019s final World Cup, meaning he went to two with Portugal throughout his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 will be a World Cup year, and Manchester United are bound to have plenty of representation at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[7794,403,99],"class_list":["post-217447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ruben-amorim","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}