Harambee Stars Great McDonald Mariga Included in Damaging List of Worst Players to Ever Win Champions League

• Retired midfielder and Kenyan great McDonald Mariga has been included in an embarrassing list of players who did not deserve to win the Champions League
• Mariga won the Champions League in 2010 with Inter Milan and remains the only Kenyan to do so
• Others included in the list include Chelsea duo of Ryan Bertrand and Jose Bosingwa and Liverpool's Dejan Lovren and Alberto Moreno

Former Kenyan international McDonald Mariga has been included in a list of the worst-ever players to win the coveted UEFA Champions League.

Mariga remains the only Kenyan to date to have won the biggest trophy in club football after his exploits in Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan squad of 2010.

Mariga was part of the squad that beat Bayern Munich at Santiago Bernabeu. His brother Victor Wanyama, came close to replicating his success but fell in the 2019 final when his Tottenham Hotspur side were beaten by Liverpool.

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The Daily Star has compiled a list of the surprising players to win the Champions League. It is not yet immediately clear the parameters they have used to come up with the list but a statement on their website says:

Some of those to lift the trophy, while still a few rungs above Sunday League standard, are not what you’d call Champions League level.

Mariga was an unused substitute during the final. Mourinho used him three times during the knockout stages and they all came from the bench. He was on Inter Milan's roster from 2010 to 2014 with loans in between to Parma and Real Sociedad.

The other players included in the infamous list include Jose Bosingwa who won two Champions League trophies with Porto and Chelsea. Others include Ryan Bertrand who also won it with Chelsea, Dejan Lovren and Alberto Moreno who were part of Liverpool's success in 2019.