A skillfull player, a career full of controversy, but the fact Paolo Di Canio never represented his country is pretty amazing.
Players who should have had more caps for their countries
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A skillfull player, a career full of controversy, but the fact Paolo Di Canio never represented his country is pretty amazing.
Eric. Enough said.
Roy Makaay. Unfortunate to play at the same time as Kluivert, then Ruud, then RvP.
Carrick and Scholes
Steve Bruce
Zola
Le Tissier
Andy Cole
Le Tissier
Andy Cole
His goal scoring record was terrible for the Netherlands.
Cantona-Ginola
Esteban Cambiasso
Kenneth Perez and now Lasse Schöne for Denmark.
Andy "goal" Cole,
When you consider the alternatives that Italy had in his position during his career, it isn't really.
A skillfull player, a career full of controversy, but the fact Paolo Di Canio never represented his country is pretty amazing.
Carrick and Scholes. Nevermind Gerrard and Lampard. If England insisted on playing a 4-4-2 then these two should have been the ones in the middle. Especially Carrick. We saw our midfield rotate a lot, but one name that was always one of the first on SAF's team sheet when a big game was coming up was Carrick. Probably one of the most underrated players of his era. At least by the British. He didn't score a bunch of goals or make bone crunching tackles, so he went unnocited by most from his country. He didn't go unnoticed from his piers though, and had he been born Spanish, then all of England would be talking about how their country needs a player like him to pull the strings from deep in midfield...
Robbie Fowler.
Rashford, at 21, already has more caps. Not a slight against Rashford at all, but that’s quite incredible considering how good Fowler actually was. Not surprising given the depth at the time, though.
Rashford, at 21, already has more caps. Not a slight against Rashford at all, but that’s quite incredible considering how good Fowler actually was. Not surprising given the depth at the time, though.
Mario Jardel
Andrew Cole
Robbie Fowler
Andrew Cole
Robbie Fowler
While I’m at it: Le Tiss. Eight caps.
Carrick is going to come up a lot but United fans generally suffer from selective memory when it comes to him and England. When he played for England he blew it. He’d often drop out of the squad with injuries concerns, too, which never really helped his cause.
Gerrard and Lampard were better players and were always going to play (yes, playing Carrick in a three could have worked, before you rush to tell me). But, generally, outside of a nice game back in 2006 against Ecuador (I think) he never really made the most of his opportunities in the team.
Gerrard and Lampard were better players and were always going to play (yes, playing Carrick in a three could have worked, before you rush to tell me). But, generally, outside of a nice game back in 2006 against Ecuador (I think) he never really made the most of his opportunities in the team.
Yeah, Carrick was pretty woeful at times for England. Never took his chance when it came along.
I'm not sure if Cantona should be mentioned 45 games in 8 years is a pretty good number, Platini has 72 in 11 years.
Cantona-Ginola
Redondo
29 caps
29 caps
Steve Bruce. Wasn’t even capped.
I'd take him over the dross we have up front now in a heartbeat though.
Scholes retired for the national team so him having less caps is on him.
Scholes could've had a shit load more caps if he wanted them. Very frustrating as an England fan that he wasn't bothered with the national side.
I get that Di Canio is a **** figure, but he wasn't even close to being good enough to get into those Italian squads. Him having gotten a cap would be more of a shock.
Ryan Giggs
And Gerrard and Lampard were not the ones keeping Carrick out of the team. It was Hargreaves, Barry and Parker.
Long tradition of mavericks that Ingerlund cast aside.
Le Tissier
Rodney Marsh
Stan Bowles
Tony Currie
Charlie George
Frank Worthington
And so on
Le Tissier
Rodney Marsh
Stan Bowles
Tony Currie
Charlie George
Frank Worthington
And so on
When managers chose to play with two midfielders, it was. Plus, Hargreaves was generally better in an England shirt. Barry was, too, in fairness. Parker was shite.
Surprised Stan Collymore only got 3 caps, but he did have plenty of competition for places
Same for Hasselbaink and to a much lesser degree Van Hooijdonk. (though they were never in competition with RvP cause he wasn't a striker then)
I don't know how to find that but I imagine he didn't actually play that many minutes of those 43 caps he played.
I would definitely add Seedorf to the list. Should probably have been our most capped player but his international career was as good as over at age 28, when Marco van Basten became coach, so he ended up with "only" 87 caps and was just never really a succes in the Dutch team.
Guti
Also want to add Luc Nilis. Was such a brillant player but never really appreciated as much as he should have been in Belgium. I feel had he been born Dutch he would've ended up close to Dennis Bergkamp. I am an Ajax supporter but Nilis was just so great to watch. His YouTube goal reel is fantastic to watch.
Johan Cruyff ended up with only 48 caps due to loads of conflicts with the Dutch FA and later personal troubles causing him to miss the '78 World Cup.
Johan Cruyff ended up with only 48 caps due to loads of conflicts with the Dutch FA and later personal troubles causing him to miss the '78 World Cup.
He certainly played a lot out wide right due to the competition in the middle and being the only one of the top strikers to be capable of doing a job away from the middle.
For his ability and club success. Alan Hansen didnt win a lot of caps.
Bernd Schuster, had 21 caps for Germany.
Brilliant Footballer, played for Barca, Real and Atletico, won the the European Championships with Germany. Has a claim to be one of the best 5 german midfielders of all time.
Brilliant Footballer, played for Barca, Real and Atletico, won the the European Championships with Germany. Has a claim to be one of the best 5 german midfielders of all time.
Giovane Elber had only 15.
Edmundo, Alex Souza, Juninho Pernambucano.