ROGER MILLA

ROGER MILLA

5. ROGER MILLA Cameroon

Roger Milla was 38 and winding down his career in semi-retirement on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion when the call came from the president of Cameroon, Paul Biya.

Despite misgivings among the rest of the squad, he proved his worth, coming off the bench to score twice against Romania, and then hitting another double against Colombia in the second round, celebrating each goal with a hip-wiggling shimmy at the corner-flag.

He briefly turned the quarter-final against England as well, drawing a foul from Paul Gascoigne to win a penalty, before chipping the through-ball from which Eugene Ekeke gave Cameroon the lead.