Very true, but I'm not counting Marcelo "Hide-In-The-Bushes" Vega. Keep thinking--it's not a terribly obvious answer.
Dom was among the last cuts in '94...he carried a hamstring injury as I recall through the tail end of qualifying that just didn't come around in time to make the squad. Earnie Stewart took over his #8...and the rest is history.
The Quakes site says Dom was the USMNT's second-highest scorer in 1993 but underwent an emergency apendectomy just before the '94 World Cup squad was decided.
Thank you Dr. Quaker. I was confusing Dom's malady with the ailment that kept Claudio Reyna on the bench in '94.
Oh, duh. For some reason I thought this was one of the ones listed already. Sir Beast...The Cowboy...Troy Dayak. Subbed on in a couple WC90 games.
Hmmmm .. Shawn Medved ? Funny last name, by the way: Medved, means "Bear" in Russian, and I guess in several other Eastern European languages as well
Christopher Sullivan. Was on the 1990 team... played for the 1997 Clash... had a stint in Hungary in between during the no-league era between 1985 and 1996...
You are correct, Nap! So we've got 13 Clash/Quakes guys who played in the World Cup: Doyle, United States (1990) Sullivan, United States (1990) Gough, Scotland (1990) Wynalda, United States (1990, 1994, 1998) Emenalo, Nigeria (1994) Iroha, Nigeria (1994) Burns, United States (1998) Azizi, Iran (1998) Agoos, United States (2002) Donovan, United States (2002) Lewis, United States (2002) Solis, Costa Rica (2002) Wright, Costa Rica (2002)
Which fan consumed the most alcohol in one match at Spartan? Name which match. LDB......All-Star Game 2001, ughhhh, my aching head.
D'oh. Dayak played in some qualifiers, but not the cup. However, I was correct about Espinoza, although it was a bitch to find proof on the web. He was on Mexico's WC94 team as a bench sub (some web sites list him as Eduardo Espinoza, his full name is Eduardo Misael Espinoza Padilla). Here's a link to a bio page for him...note it says "jugo el Mundial de Estados Unidos 94."
You're right about Espinoza making the trip to the 1994 World Cup, but I didn't count him because he didn't actually play. The question was about guys who played in a World Cup. Likewise, Agoos went to the 1998 World Cup but sat on the bench the entire time.