News about Johnny Rep

Dutch football legend Johnny Rep has backed new Liverpool boss Arne Slot to win the Premier League in his very first season. Feyenoord manager Slot is set to replace Jurgen Klopp at Anfield in the summer and two-time World Cup finalist Rep believes he will make an instant impact. It would be Liverpool's 20th league championship, drawing them level with rivals Manchester United.

OLIVER HOLT: Any list - your list as well as mine - can be dominated by those who are not on it. However, it should really be about the participants who are on it. This list is meant to be a salute to them and of football's rich, rich past, as well as what the game means to all of us and what players represent and why they capture something in us. You'll disagree with some of the names on the list, and you'll be correct. Another man's garbage is another man's treasure. The depth of our passion for the game and the ferocity of our opinions about the players are only two of the factors that make football so beautiful.

OLIVER HOLT: It was Brazil's fourth goal in the 1970 World Cup final against Italy, which made Pele the highest there will ever be. Of course, that is subjective. The best arguments are still are. But it wasn't what made it for me anyway. We only saw the goal, those few seconds of football perfection, when I was a kid, because those were the days before you could watch everything on repeat. And yet, making it more valuable. It made it like gold, like the Brazil shirts' gold. I was eight years old and it was on display in the preamble to the 1974 World Cup in West Germany. Johan Cruyff and Johnny Rep. Gerd Muller and Franz Beckenbauer were competing in the tournament, but a symbol of beauty, in my opinion, was that Brazil's goal from four years ago.

Under the Friday night lights, Holland and Argentina face each other in the second round of the World Cup in what promises to be an engrossing competition. Louis van Gaal's Dutch side has been more effective and efficient than eye-catching so far in the tournament, but they remain undefeated. Argentina was victims of a massive World Cup shock when losing 2-1 to Saudi Arabia in their first group game, but the team bounced back to top Group C after beating Mexico and Poland.

Only a select group of footballers will qualify to play at a World Cup. An even more elite group is those that were able to win the world's biggest tournament. After all, only eight nations have lifted the trophy in almost a century of history. Any player faces the greatest challenge and the holy grail. However, there have been some truly outstanding teams who came so close to winning it and then stopped so far. Sportsmail looks at some of the best teams that did not win the World Cup in Qatar ahead of the tournament.