And with enlarged 26-man squads this time, there will be more players than ever who end up flying home with that bittersweet feeling.
This is what you could have had.
Conor Coady has been there, done that and got the T-shirt at the Euros. And with the England defensive pecking order as it is, he would probably be regarded as a leading contender for an unwanted double.
Franco Baresi, right, won a World Cup winners’ medal with Italy in 1982 without kicking a ball in anger and Ronaldo did the same with Brazil in 1994. It was not how they dreamt it as young boys.
Still, if one of the balancing acts of Gareth Southgate’s selection was to backload his squad with good tourists, then the relentlessly-upbeat Scouser fits the bill perfectly.
Coady said: “I don’t think of myself as a tourist – I think of myself as a footballer.
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