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USA captain had affair with team-mate's wife
PIECE OF NEWSThis piece of news is related to Terry's scandal.
• John Harkes was dropped after affair with wife of team-mate
• 'There are certain lines you don't cross,' says coach
Fabio Capello is not the first international manager facing a dilemma over his captain in the build-up to a World Cup because of an issue relating the player's private life. It has emerged that the former United States coach Steve Sampson dropped John Harkes two months before France 98 because the midfielder was having an affair with the wife of a team-mate, Eric Wynalda.
"There's a lot of similarities between what happened to us in '98 and what's happening now to England," Wynalda said. "It's an unfortunate time for England, because I know how that can affect a team first-hand. Obviously, we all know how we did in the World Cup in '98."
The US went out in the first round, having finished bottom of their group with no points from games against Germany, Iran and Yugoslavia.
Harkes was a member of the 1990 and 1994 US World Cup teams and became the captain before he was dropped by Sampson in a surprise move in April 1998. At the time Sampson said Harkes was left out because the midfielder refused to play a more defensive role. The manager also cited "leadership issues".
"I think I could have lived with everything else and kept John on the team if it had not been for the private issues," Sampson said this week. "It's one thing to have an affair outside the team. It's another to have one inside ... There are just certain lines that one cannot cross."
Sampson said that Roy Wegerle, another US player, came to him and the assistant coach, Clive Charles, in the months leading up to the World Cup and said he had personal knowledge of the affair.
Harkes said this week: "I am not going to rehash the things that have happened in the past. 1998 was devastating to me and my family. It was hard enough not to play in the World Cup, but it was even difficult to go through that time period, the most difficult time period of my life."
Wynalda said an affair did take place. "I'm calling it an inappropriate relationship. It was a major contributor to why I'm no longer married," he said.
John Harkes
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