So... for some reason, my good career as a club manager keeps getting me national team jobs even though I suck at those. I've ruined Nigeria, Japan and Australia's hopes in 2 world cups and am now managing Italy.
I picked one of my own players, an uncapped regen. Let's call him Del Piero (because that's his actual name ). Anyway, after getting a total of 1 point from games in Finland and at home vs Serbia (as I said before, I really suck at it), I picked him for the games vs Montenegro and Ireland. We finally got a win. He came in as a substitute and scored the winner.
Later he came to thank me (the club Manager, not the NT manager, if that makes sense) and tell me he was very proud and that it was thanks to me he was able to play for Italy. I told him if he keeps playing well for the club the italian manager will notice and he'll become a regular on the team.