News about Paolo Rossi

Enner Valencia has scored on Ecuador's last six World Cup goals, marking him as one of a select group of players to have scored so many goals for their country on the biggest stage in history. In 1966, Eusebio was Portugal's first netting master before Italian Paolo Rossi and Russian Oleg Salenko achieved the feat in the 1980s and 1990s respectively, as revealed by Opta. Valencia scored all three of Ecuador's goals in the 2014 World Cup's group stage, and the South American team failed to qualify for the tournament four years ago.

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.

ALVISE CAGNAZZO: The sixth round of Serie A fixtures saw the league table get to life, with Napoli, Atalanta, and AC Milan all getting off to a good start in the new season as they announce their early hopes to win the Scudetto. Meanwhile, the Udinese beat Sassuolo 3-1, putting them on a collision course. In our new ten things we learned from Serie A with Sportsmail's Alvise Cagnazzo, we've got all of this and more.