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Ante Budimir

Croatia

Position
Club
Age
Forward
Osasuna
32
Caps
Goals
Rating
Group16QFSFF
6
7
6

Google “worst penalty in history” and you’ll definitely come across the Osasuna player’s bizarre effort against Valencia in April this year, causing mass facepalming on the home bench and in the crowd. Budimir, a war refugee from Bosnia, a university student of economics and business and a really nice guy who only made his international debut aged 29, has been described as a “poor man’s Mario Mandzukic” chiefly for his fighting spirit, hard work without the ball and strong presence in the air...