The 32 teams for Brazil 2014 have been decided and until the Group Stage draw on December 6th the main talking point will be the star players that failed to make it to the tournament. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Gareth Bale, Robert Lewandowski and Petr Cech are among the world class players that will not feature on the big stage next year, but it doesn't take success at a World Cup to become a true great of the game. The following five players never made it to a World Cup finals but are still considered to be some of the best to grace the game we love, while World Cup success can help to achieve immortality in the football hall of fame it's not the only way to get inducted.
Josh has had work featured in the Evening Gazette and on Newcastle United website. He is a Multimedia Journalism student at Teesside University and runs a successful sports blog. He also enjoys films, comics and TV, writing about anything he can. Josh has recently started writing his first of what he hopes will be many books.
