Many footballers will head to South Africa with the chance to live their dream, to play on the grandest sage of world football and with the chance to change their career fortunes with the one goal and the one good display. Far away from the action, there will be a number of players who most likely will want nothing to do with it, for whom the watching on television like us mere more mortals could prove too difficult. They will mostly be the players who were in with a chance of being on the big stage and lost out in the end. World football governing body requires that each country can take along only 23 players to the World Cup. Some national coaches chose to do it from straight up like Brazil coach Dunga who wanted nothing to do with provisional squads. He made his choice of 23 and they are getting ready for their sixth title now in South Africa. Others like Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac chose 30 players before trimming it down. Yet without a major friendly and with five days of training in Paris, you must wonder whether the Serbian did not go to the training camp with his final 23 in hand already.
Pain as axe falls in Stars camp
