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Old 26th March 2008, 22:13   #1 (permalink)
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United's international captains
With Rio being chosen as captain of England, it got me wandering how many captains we have had that have led their respective countries?

I can think of the following:

Rio Ferdinand
Roy Keane
Darren Fletcher
Ryan Giggs


Going back I can think of:

David Beckham
Bryan Robson
Mark Hughes
Juan Seb Veron



We've also had two of our black players as England captain: Rio tonight and Paul Ince who was the first black player to captain England.


Others?
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Old 26th March 2008, 22:15   #2 (permalink)
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Van Der Sar is captain.
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Old 26th March 2008, 22:16   #3 (permalink)
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Van Der Sar I think is captain of Holland
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Old 26th March 2008, 22:16   #4 (permalink)
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Ronaldo's been captain of Portugal for the last few games - didn't play tonight though.
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Old 26th March 2008, 22:16   #5 (permalink)
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Ronaldo was portugal captain recently if I remember correctly
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I think someone said Vidic captains Serbia

Schmeichel was captain of Denmark
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Old 26th March 2008, 22:55   #12 (permalink)
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Henning Berg - Norway.
Eric Cantona, Fabien Barthez & Laurent Blanc - France.
Tim Howard - USA.
Phil Neville - England (for a portion of the second half in one game).
Keith Gillespie and David Healy, Northern Ireland.

EDIT: added a few more.
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Old 26th March 2008, 22:59   #13 (permalink)
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Henning Berg - Norway.
Eric Cantona & Laurent Blanc - France.
Tim Howard - USA.
Phil Neville - England (for a portion of the second half in one game).
Did he really?
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Did he really?
Yeah before the infamous kung-fu kick he was the French National Captain.
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Gary Neville captained England in the Portugal game ahead of the likes of Gerrard, Terry when Beckham got taken off. He commanded himself pretty well and shook all the Portuguese players hands at the end of the game.
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Norman Whiteside & Sammy McIlroy, Northern Ireland
Gordon Strachan, Scotland.
Paul McGrath, Ireland.
David Platt, England (United youth team, never senior squad).
Frank Stapleton, Ireland.
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Old 27th March 2008, 00:16   #18 (permalink)
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Old 27th March 2008, 00:57   #19 (permalink)
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I remember when we had 4 International captains across our midfield.


--Giggs------Veron------Keane------Beckham--
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O'Shea did at least once for Ireland.
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Old 27th March 2008, 07:40   #22 (permalink)
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Norman Whiteside & Sammy McIlroy, Northern Ireland
Gordon Strachan, Scotland.
Paul McGrath, Ireland.
David Platt, England (United youth team, never senior squad).
Frank Stapleton, Ireland.
I don't think Sammy McIlroy was with United when he became Irish captain. He left I think, in 1982 and he was made captain during the 1984 World Cup (as I was reading on Wiki last night).
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I remember when we had 4 International captains across our midfield.


--Giggs------Veron------Keane------Beckham--
that's amazing.
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Phil Neville captained England once in a freidly. Cant remember who it was against, but i remember the armband was passed around about 4 times.

Not sure if he was at United then.

Did Jip Jaap Stam ever captain Holland?
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Bobby Charlton captained England 3 times. Ray Wilkins 10 times.

David Platt, though obviously he was not England captain while at United.
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I think someone said Vidic captains Serbia
Dejan Stankovic captains Serbia
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i'm quite sure Park has captained Korea, i remember when he captained United for some 20 minutes in CL game don't remember against whom
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i'm quite sure Park has captained Korea, i remember when he captained United for some 20 minutes in CL game don't remember against whom

Park captained Korea at the World Cup in 2006 iirc.
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Park captained Korea at the World Cup in 2006 iirc.
You're wrong, goalkeeper Lee Woon-Jae was captain at WC
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OK OK, so actually, we have:

Rio
Park
Fletch
Vidic
Van der Sar
Ronaldo

as captains!

Wow!
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OK OK, so actually, we have:

Rio
Park
Fletch
Vidic
Van der Sar
Ronaldo

as captains!

Wow!
Dejan Stankovic captains Serbia
And Park is not captain of Korea
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Old 27th March 2008, 13:34   #32 (permalink)
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Current Captains:
Ferdinand
Ronaldo
Van der Sar

-Fletcher has only captained the squad once or twice in absence of Barry Ferguson and others.
-Kim Nam-Il is the captain of Korea Republic
-Stankovic captains Serbia
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Old 27th March 2008, 13:47   #33 (permalink)
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Current Captains:
Ferdinand
Ronaldo
Van der Sar

-Fletcher has only captained the squad once or twice in absence of Barry Ferguson and others.
-Kim Nam-Il is the captain of Korea Republic
-Stankovic captains Serbia
Ferdinand is on a trial basis, so reality is:

Ronaldo
VDS

Those are the only consistent captains of their respective countries in this current squad.
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