The 30-year-old Brazilian João Pedro is probably the world's most unlucky naturalized international. He made his naturalization debut in Italy's 1-0 defeat to North Macedonia, but his brief appearance was only disappointed, a dream-shattering disappointment.
João Pedro was 0-0 before he came on, and Mancini sent the Cagliari captain in order to step up his attack in the final moments. But it backfired, and Pedro, who only played in the 89th minute, witnessed the North Macedonian team's death before he even came out. The Brazilian made his debut for Italy, playing just one minute, but enough to become a historic international. His Dream of a World Cup also capsized within 1 minute.
As a Brazilian footballer, I am afraid that representing Brazil in the World Cup should be the biggest dream of every samba teenager as a child. At the age of 17, Pedro completed the small version of this dream - participated in the FIFA-U17 World Cup in 2009. But in the subsequent playing career, João Pedro experienced more than a decade of hard work in European football. It wasn't until his 9-year long time in Cagliari in Serie A that he found his real starting point.
As a grassroots, he has no hope of being selected for brazil, and he has made a small world for himself in Sardinia, Italy. At the small club Cagliari, he struggled to become the second star in the club's history after the former Italian famous international Riva, and was successfully selected by Mancini to become a naturalized striker, which is the only 3 naturalized internationals in the current Italian team. At the age of 30, he completed his adult international status, and João Pedro seems to see hope for a World Cup match.
But he failed to help the Italian team turn the tide, and the 1-minute playing time could not become a legendary hero. And this short 1 minute, but let him from heaven to hell, solid feeling the bitterness of a World Cup qualifier. This 1 minute is probably the only match of his playing career related to the World Cup. For the Italian team, João Pedro is just a drop in the ocean, and for the naturalized international, the nightmare is the only short experience left by his World Cup. Therefore, it is not bad to say that he is the most unlucky naturalized international in the world's preliminary rounds!