Barney Djordjevic

Slobodan "Barney" Djordjevic (July 2, 1942 – August 16, 2000) was an American soccer forward who earned one cap with the U.S. national team in a 2–1 World Cup qualification loss to Mexico on September 10, 1972, in Los Angeles. During the 1967–68 season, Djordjevic played for the New York club Inter S.C. in the American Soccer League.

On September 10, 1972, in what was the final match of qualifying for the 1974 World Cup, an error by the United States Soccer Federation and a number of injuries left manager Bob Kehoe, who had been hired on a short-term basis, with only ten field players at his disposal. Two players, Fred Kovacs and Dieter Ficken, a German-American from New York, were flown in at the last minute and arrived at the stadium just two hours before kickoff. This left them one player short. It was Ficken who spotted fellow New York player Djordjevic in the nearly empty stands. Kehoe then played him as a left winger for half the match before substituting him for Johnny Moore, who would not make his professional debut until two years later.

In 2021, Brazilian writer Max Gehringer suggested that Djordjevic was probably tipped off before the match about the shortage of players, and that he showed up specifically so that he would be drafted.