With just two months to go until the World Cup, international managers will be preparing to make some big calls ahead of naming their tournament squads.
In England's case, that could mean Gareth Southgate giving Ivan Toney a call-up for the tournament in Qatar. The forward is part of Southgate's squad for the UEFA Nations League dead rubber against Germany, where he will hope to earn his first cap.
Of course, a spot in the squad won't necessarily mean minutes at the tournament, as the likes of Ben Chilwell and Conor Coady discovered at Euro 2020. Those on the sidelines still have a part to play, though, and some have even picked up a winner's medal without kicking a ball in anger. Here, Mirror Football takes a closer look at some of those to achieve the feat.
Franco Baresi
Franco Baresi ended up winning 81 senior caps for Italy, but all of them came after he won the World Cup. In 1982, the defender - then 22 years old - was part of the Azzurri squad for the tournament in Spain.
As Enzo Bearzot surprised some top opponents to win the tournament, the likes of Paolo Rossi and Marco Tardelli caught the eye. And this allowed Baresi to not only win the World Cup without making it onto the pitch, but to win it having never made a senior appearance for his country.
Angelo Peruzzi
Some 24 years later, Italy were world champions again. This time, Peruzzi - whose first cap came just a year after Baresi's last, in 1995 - was able to join the celebrations without making it onto the pitch.
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The Juventus goalkeeper starred for the Bianconeri in the 90s, and was Italy's number one for their ill-fated Euro 96 campaign. 10 years after that tournament, he was in the twilight of his career, but received the call from Marcello Lippi and watched from the sidelines as his teammates earned a penalty shoot-out win against France in the World Cup final in Berlin.
Raul Albiol
Spain defender Raul Albiol might be the unluckiest player in international football, or he might be the luckiest. The centre-back was part of his country's squad for the 2010 World Cup triumph and the European Championship win two years later, but didn't play a minute in either tournament.
Albiol has 58 caps for Spain, with more than a decade between the first in 2007 and the most recent in 2021. However, his on-pitch World Cup experience amounts to just one appearance, in a dead rubber against Australia in 2014.
Erik Durm
Speaking of 2014, Germany's squad is a very curious one. A number of players called up by Jogi Low have seen their opportunities limited in the years since, while some - including semi-final goalscorer Andre Schurrle - have already retired from the game.
Durm, who turned 22 shortly before the tournament, was one of the youngest members of the German group after enjoying a breakout season with Borussia Dortmund. He didn't make it onto the pitch in Brazil, though, and would win just seven caps in total - the last of them in November of that same year.
Alphonse Areola
With Hugo Lloris captaining France in Russia, opportunities for other goalkeepers were always going to be limited at best. Steve Mandanda was handed minutes in a goalless group game against Denmark, with Les Bleus already into the last 16, but Areola wasn't quite as fortunate.
Aged 25 at the time, Areola was coming off a treble-winning campaign with Paris Saint-Germain, but was unable to force his way past the skipper and into the starting line-up. He left PSG for West Ham this summer after a successful loan, and won his fifth senior cap on Sunday as the World Cup holders lost 2-0 in Denmark.
Adil Rami
Areola wasn't the only member of that France squad to watch on as the first-team did the business on the pitch. Adil Rami, who narrowly missed out on selection for the 2010 World Cup, finally got his chance to travel eight years later.
Aged 32 when the tournament began, Rami played in the pre-World Cup friendlies against Ireland and Italy but played backup to Raphael Varane and Samuel Umtiti in Russia. Later that year, he won his 36th and final international cap.
