📸 Nearly five years out! Cast-off shocks World Cup hosts

📸 Nearly five years out! Cast-off shocks World Cup hosts Stories that only football can write. Or rather: that only the 2026 World Cup can write. In Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina just took the lead through a striker who had actually long since been discarded. After making his international debut in December 2021, Jovo Lukic did not play a single match for his home country again until the end of May 2026. But coach Sergej Barbarez clearly saw something in the striker, who currently earns his living in Romania’s top division. The national coach took Lukic to the World Cup, started him today directly in place of Edin Džeko, and after not even 30 minutes was able to celebrate his very first goal for Bosnia. Lukic headed in a corner to make it 1-0 (21st minute) for the visitors. Well, that’s how quickly someone who was cast aside can become a World Cup goalscorer. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.