10 Footballers Who Chose Not To Play For England
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- The England national team is one of the biggest and most star-studded national teams in the world. Almost every footballer who is eligible to play for them prays and hopes to one day get a call up.
But there have been quite a number who have had the opportunity to play for the Three Lions and have turned it down. Here are 10 footballers who chose not to play for England.
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1. Jamal Musiala
2. Alex Iwobi
3. Gareth Bale
4. Scott McTominay
5. Erling Haaland
6. Wilfried Zaha
7. Michail Antonio
8. Adnan Januzaj
9. Matty Cash
10. Ademola Lookman
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As someone said it is good to have enough playing time in a small team rather than sitting in bench of a big team
I think that was Gareth Bale's view - why play for the minor England team when you can play for the highly ranked Welsh team.
Some don't mind playing for England...
@@dariomartinez459 yes, some. not all.
@@trevormj u didnt understand his comment at all lol
England a big team? You mean like, Maguire?
If Haaland had played for England, I think they would’ve been in the WC Final. I definitely respect staying true and playing for Norway knowing the chances of achieving glory and minimal. His stats are ridiculous, not the least being his 9 goals in the U-20 World Cup! Hoping they qualify for the 2026 WC!
England is a curse, he wouldn't be the same!
@@tsekeTechGuy
Are you suggesting that England wouldn’t have been a far more dangerous team with Haaland on it?
@@TheBenevolentDictatorship fam what I am saying is England doesn't just need one player. If Lampard and Gerrard and co couldn't do it I don't see them ever doing it. There's always something that goes wrong with england
@@tsekeTechGuy
That sounds very superstitious. They’re not cursed. Many nations have done far worse than England over the years. Haaland would’ve given them a lot more scoring power up front. Obviously much needed
@Tweet Worse Lol delusional as always. You are entitled to your own opinion.
Giovanni Reyna is one he turned down England to play for the United States for the reason of “Yet, since his dad captained the USA to two World Cups, his chances of representing anybody else were minuscule.
The 18-year-old made his international debut for the USA in November 2020 during a match against Wales and forms part of America’s potentially golden generation.”
Did Giovanni feature in the English youth set up. He seems to have made a natural decision based on talent level and opportunity. USA!
@@thokongwenya9552 no he didn't play in the England youth system
At two world cups, not to.
Bronze age at best 😅
@@thokongwenya9552based on talent level? Maybe he just actually wanted to win trophies 😂
Italian 2006 world Cup winner Simone Perrotta was born and raised only 5 miles from Man City's ground in Ashton under Lyne and could have played for England . Good job for him he didn't.
never heard of him so he ain't English because English hype you'd no him
If England had Erling Haaland then England would actually become a huge title threat for the Euro's and world cups that we have been waiting for England to be for such a long time. It would be amazing to see and a must watch. It would be phenomenonal for Haaland's internantional career too and definitely help Haaland's overall career the best way possible. Also the rivalry between Haaland and Mbappe would be so immense. It would make the world of football even more interesting and jaw dropping.
England already have Kane 😎
@@prestonjackson5656 Kane is a great player Ofc but he is getting on a bit and he is not enough. He also makes mistakes in big games for England. Haaland is the best striker in the prem by far.
Kane is getting old now and you can tell by that free kick is the quater finals
u should have begged him to play for england. shame that u care more about ur ego than the wc itself
Yunus Musah, born in the USA to Ghanaian parents who then moved to England and so he trained in Arsenal's youth academy, and played in England youth National teams. Wooed by USMNT and by Ghana, picked the US. Still only 19 years old as of this writing (born Nov. 29, 2002). Gonna be one of the great midfielders of his generation.
I’ve heard that to many times to be honest he probably will have a mediocre career
@@willbishop6376 Musah is already better than ANY midfielder who plays in MLS. Whether he will continue to get better and become a superstar is never going to be a sure thing and depends on how hard he keeps working, whether he can avoid major injuries, and how good the coaching he gets in the teams he chooses to play for.
Because the us pay more. George weah’s son did the same which considering his dad was president of Liberia is a bit of a liberty really
@@willbishop6376 Based on what I've seen of the world cup so far, he's not mediocre. He's improving all the time and the sky's the limit.
@@willbishop6376 Outplayed all of England’s midfield🤫
Should be titled "10 players who avoided the bullet of playing for All Fur Coat and No Knickers FC"
The three that would/could have made the biggest difference IMO are Ryan Giggs, Wilf Zaha and Haaland. I don't know how realistic it would have been for Giggs to play for England but during his career England always seemed to be missing that player on the left.
Giggs didn't qualify to play for England. He has stated this many times.
He only played for England schoolboys because he was living in Manchester (the same way Michael Owen played for Wales schoolboys even though he's English). The only national teams Giggs was legible for were Wales and Sierra Leone.
@@welshjim22 How does Bale qualify then?
Scott mctominay made the right decision
Well if he wants to be a failure and never play in a World Cup than yes he did 😆 Mctominay wouldn’t even make our senior team now
Yes he did
yes he did thank god he aint near england
Yeah I bet he loves the england D team
I think he made a big mistake when will yous every step in the world cup
"The England team is one of the most star studded teams in the world " Good one!
yeah i just see that and stoped the video ahah
lol lost 4-0 to the underrated hungary team
MAN ENGLAND IS THE BEST FOOTBALL TEAM EVER
@@FinneganTheMinstrel Good one!
It is tho… whether u like it or not
Haaland has no tie to England and no family there. Both his parents is Norwegian. He was only born in England because his dad played football there at the time. They moved back to Norway when he was a toddler. Why should he chose England?
More chance of winning a trophy for one.
Giovanni Reyna too his parents both American and both were professional footballers but he was born in England too because his father played there
@@theyoutubeguy1 hahahaha good one mate!
@@theyoutubeguy1 England got as big chances of winning a trophy as Norway qualifying for a tournament again.
@@marcuspoosz2190 England supporters have been saying it’s coming home for years time to face the facts it’s never coming home unless you want to hold on to the glory of the women’s euro the rest of your life 🤣
You forgot Ryan Giggs who captained England in youth level but chose Wales instead. I have no doubt if he had chosen England at the time, then I truly believe England would have won a major tournament. He was the missing left winger England craved at that time.
He played for England Schoolboys, not England. The England Schoolboys is based on where you go to school and not nationality
he said he never felt english and always wanted to play for wales, if not wales cameroon because of his dad
#Garethbale what a lengend 🏴🏴🏴
Former Scotland midfielder Stuart Macall , I seem to recall reading that he purposely prolonged warming up as a sub for the England U-21s to avoid being brought on, having realised he had made a mistake declaring for England
All the Irish lads in Jack Charlton’s era could’ve played for England 😂
Just imagine if Haaland and Musiala had chosen to play for England... 😫
I’d put them in the WC Final. Haaland is on a totally unseen level right now. Too bad Norway didn’t qualify. Hopefully ‘26.
This is a domino effect
Benfica its buying Neres to replace Nunez
Liverpool bought Nunez to replace Mane
Bayern its buying Mane to replace Lewangoalski
Barca its buying Lewangoalski to replace Luuk The Goat
Man utd buying Luuk to replace Pogba
Juve buying Pogba to replace Dybala
Inter buying Dybala to replace Vecino
It goes on and on....
@@tenretnitnuocca7143 actually frenkie
@@johnsuperhist5219 you're right. My bad. I just followed what was on the comment without realizing. 👍
@@johnsuperhist5219 yeah if that was Luuk I was like "oh you mean someone who used to play for Newcastle and didn't really success?"
@@tenretnitnuocca7143 ja it is like you wake up from the dream and running along the race that you don't know how it is going to end 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Stuart McCall was apparently on subs bench to play for England senior or under 21 but refused to go on pitch at time as was very late in the day ...changed to Scotland and scored in Italia 90 for Scotland v Sweden in a 2-1 win .
Your research is phenomenal
My country Nigeria would be so stacked but footballers never chose use
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Nigerians need to stop running away, the only genuine proud Nigerian I have seen was Iwobi, his carer may not have gone how he wanted but at the time England really wanted him and he always said I am Nigerian, I will wait for Nigeria
if mctominay played for england i would never meet him. now i met him and i am happy about that 😭😍
Yess he is xavi .....
10:05 Calvin Bassey he’s defo such a good player and can defo be a premier league player and can play left back and centre half but I think he may stay at rangers just to see that progression but if you seen his Europa league games you know what I mean and I believe he was man of the match Europa league final as well
@Stephen Greenhorn and of course Ramsey moved to Liverpool from Aberdeen hope will see development from him for Scotland and club but I agree I do think we moved Patterson on so quick I think he could of easily played on the right
Good thing then he left for Ajax
Yes, Calvin can be a Premier League player. But he can even do better! He can even play for Ajax. I.e. Champions League ...
Gareth Wales
He picked the right team
Ya England lost to Hungary what’s happening South Gate
@@Jmcd941 1st time u have qualified since 1958 LOLLLLLLLL u must get board
Imagine that line up of Kane and halaand
Imagine all them together
I choose not to play for my country of birth Kenya ie Cricket period by Steve Irungu Jermaine
Kenya is cricket country
Ata hatukujui 😂
Sisi wote ni wakenya
Niambataje
Steve Tikolo and Maurice Obdumbe are best
Oh wow Kane and Haaland playing together would be invincile
Haaland would have benched Kane , plus he has good chemistry with Foden and Bellingham..
@@chrisblanco8593 Why can't we have 2 elite strikers in the squad mate
There's John Wilkinson who married a Singaporean and switched to play for Singapore, culminating in the nation's most successful period and hauling many regional honours while representing the South East Asian country
These guys are great, these colonized Africans living in England could learn a thing or two. Iwobi Is the main man, A True, Proud African..
Some of them spent their whole lives in England grew up here. Of course they’re going to be more connected to England than their parents countries. It’s also not colonisation as their parents immigrated there. Whether they want to play for the country they grew up in or the country of their origin, they’re both respectable decisions.
@@deviljho4260 lol how old are you? Cause u sound like my naive 8 year old
@@beast9052 And yet he's right... It's very stupid to blame them whatever choice they made. It's a chance for them they have multiple choices to play international football
@@Agnitlafr they are products of colonization nothing special about them, and I'll tell u this for free, Rashford will never have any impact at Man Utd because he is an African who chose to play for his colonizers, whether they grew up there or not, their history dictates otherwise. This is also why only black players are the ones charged with sexual harrassment of these white British girls. They will continue to be colonized and ostracized until they know who they truly are and where they come from, Look at how Salah and Mane are so successful, because they are true to self
@Beast And what about French-African successful players? It would mean that France succeeds in integrating them in football, but not England, right?
You don't know about all the affairs going on with sexual harassment because UK doesn't only target black Players (Gylfi Sigurdsson, Aiden Mc Geady, Ryan Giggs now even if he's for long retired)
(BTW, I'm French with a African-born father and a Caribbean-born mother 😉)
Shaka Hislop and Chris Birchall both decided to play for Trinidad and Tobago instead of England. Both represented TnT in the 2006 world cup in Germany.
Neither were good enough to play for England
Bobbi Zamora as well?
The reality is that most of these players who were raised in England would take their chances with England if they had excellent prospects of regular football at senior level. But if you’re a fringe player, or not in the picture at all as far England goes, then you will usually get approached by the football federation of your parents country of origin asking you if you will take up an offer to play for them. There’s a reason Mbappe plays for France and not Algeria or Cameroon…….
@@dickeyboyenglishnotbritish2462 He was actually capped by England, a good player.
If I were a footballer I could play for England (Mum and her mum and dad are English) or Russia (born in Russia and dad from Russia and his mum and dad were Russian). Oh and also if my grandad was a footballer he could play for England,Ireland or Germany.
B D.Rice
Zaha Mount. Bale
Halland Kane
If I were a footballer I would be eligible to play for Ireland,Spain and England
Nice If I were a footballer I would be eligible to play for US, Ukraine, or El Salvador
I could play for South Africa, Germany,Hungary,Lithuania, Poland or England
I would be eligible for US, Scotland, and maybe/hopefully England
I would be eligible for Iraq or the UAE.
I would be eligible to play for morocco and us
Thought they'd give Kasper Schmeichel a mention
Same here
The only player in this list that "ditched " England is Haaland, the rest would have struggled to outshine their competition
Dream on.
Nah Bale was going to be a starter and there is no way Halland was going to be Called to the English squad b4 he moved to dortmund or start b4 moving to city
Musiala is the future of football. He chose well.
Who is better than Bale in that role?
Seriously? England has missed an out and out LW for the last 30 years. They would loved to have had Giggs or Bale. But they chose correctly.
Roy Wegerle was born in South Africa and naturalised American to play for them. But I think he had options to play for England and Germany.
Chris Birchall was born in Stafford but went on to represent Trinidad and Tobago, where his mum was born
The only players here who would be starting candidates for the English team are Bale, Haaland and Musiala.
Zaha is a beast too. He's better than Sterling right now, imo
Respect
Well Iwobi wouldn't be starting on the English team either ways.
A lot of these guys wouldn’t have.
Imagine Haaland chose England:
ST - Erling Haaland
RW - Saka
LW - Foden/Grealish
(High sitting) CAM- Kane
RCM - Bellingham
LCM - Rice
LB - Luke Shaw
RB - Reece James/Kyle Walker
LCB - John Stones
RCB - Ben White
Goalkeeper - Aaron Ramsdale
SCARY HOURS 🥶
What of Victor Moses he played for England 🇬🇧 and Nigeria 🇳🇬
Thats not the England flag.
England = 🏴
United Kingdom = 🇬🇧
Best one is the Blackburn forward that plays for Chile
Ryan Giggs was the one we really missed out on, played at all levels for England apart from senior level aka Ryan Wilson
Giggs could not have played for England at senior level the media know it but keep reporting false claims that he turned down England, giggs would of chosen England if rules were different back then, John barnes played for England and admitted later he was never eligible
not true. Ryan Giggs played one game for England under 15s. That is it.
Giggs played for England schoolboys But was not Eligible For The England National Team. Rules were different Then Nowadays rules are far more relaxed some would say too relaxed.
@@clivethereddevil3178 again not true. Ryan Giggs only represented England at Schoolboy Level. Lawrie McMenemy who was manager of England U17 treied to select him but Giggs had no qualification
@@danicahaslop that is what I said and Lawrie was manager of the under 21 team, not under 17
England have a few good right backs but the best one plays for Poland.
U forgot the Griddy merchant Elanga
Of all these players the only one who would realistically have gained multiple England caps is Bale and his only connection is a single grandparent.
Are you high? Who will bench Haaland?? Musialla?
Musiala is still young, and with how talented he currently is, could have seen him be a regular starter in the England team later in his career. Haaland too, and he would probably get in over Kane sometimes even now. He's also 7 years younger than him, so in a few years time he could easily be better
@@cell2179 Musiala is better than all the English Midfielders combined. He is far better than Mount, Smith Rowe, Maddison, Galliggher. I mean are you on drugs? This boy at 18 is a starter for Bayern and Germany. No English player is on his level. The fact that England let him go on to play for Germany says alot about how stupid you lot are. As for Haaland lmao. Haaland on one leg is still better than Kane. Dude get a clue.
Dude I'm flabbergasted. How could you leave out Ryan Giggs?!!!!!!!!
Because he didnt qualify
@@stevenpurchase1838 exactly. Urban myth that he could have represented England just because he played for England schoolboys. The criteria was you represented the country where you were educated. His parents and grandparents were Welsh so when it came to full internationals he couldn't play for England
Wish more footballers did that as we would see these so called lesser nations being more powerful. Level playing field in big competitions. First FIFA needs to give more allocation to african nations as they do to europe, there is as many nations in africa but only get circa 5-6 places in the World Cup.
No mention of Chris Sutton 😂
If I was a baller
I’d have the options of Morocco, England or Turkey
I’d pick Morocco or Turkey
Vive morocco 🇲🇦 suiii
Morocco would have been better for you.
Morocco
Turkey and England both hellholes, Morocco would be your best option.
LOL
Raheem Sterling is Jamaican who plays for England
okay?
And? He moved to England when he was 5 for his mums job and grew up playing football in England. At least he didn’t move just to play for England, he felt he was closer to England than Jamaica in football.
Geez. England, Germany, Poland and Nigeria all went after Musiala. Having a diverse background must be a blessing.
Antonio scored a goal against El Salvador that most likely sunk their world cup hopes.
As a foreign born UK national, Musiala was probably also allowed to play to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which means with England, Nigeria, Poland and Germany he had a choice of 7 teams
Where’s you get Poland from? Also no he would only get England.
@@yetekt6953 "Where’s you get Poland from" Are you commenting without watching the video?
Can you do 10 English footballers who played for Wales and Scotland and Ireland
i wouldve straight fired bale if i was madrid because of the wales golf madrid thing.
Just like to thank Iwobi
You could add Eddie Nketiah to the list
Bruh half the English national team is Jamaican
Imagine if they played for their father land...
We would qualify for a WC
its cos there was an immigrant thing people look for better jobs and came to England u dont own the players... u didnt spend 12+ years growing them in a football academy
Haaland was born i the same hospital as me
Brereton-Diaz of Blackburn, didn't turn down England exactly but some Chilean Football Manager players noticed he was eligible for their country so they managed to convince him to choose Chile 😲
Big mistake on his part.
@@ThreeLions82big mistake? He’s getting playing time with Chile. He wouldn’t even get call up for England if he were to choose it.
Imagine musiala cam foden & sterling or mount on wings vim mid field super strikers halland & Kane up top super attacking
Well when Musiala left England at 24th February 2021 it was the same day when Estonia celebrated 103 anniversary of Estonia
Smart move, avoid the abuse.
Most them especially Lookman were all England Rejects.
Exactly, lookman had no choice than to decide too play for Nigeria.
Yep
England has all there are just not competitive enough. Maybe a change in coach will do
you cant go wrong ditching England for any team. Dont want to be part of hyped Squad FC
Exactly, the squad is over hyped
How is it overhyped, when it’s the English who support them like any other national fans who support THEIR COUNTRY? do u want me to support Egypt or something when I’m English? excuse me for supporting MY OWN COUNTRY.
that's a loser comment bro
England is definitely overhyped, how u gonna have the most valued team, most playing in the most competitive league, and u still can’t win the World Cup since 1966. England are the biggest bottlejobs I’ve seen, when it matters they fumble.
@@unrivaled7625 oh shut up.
The reason why all these players turned down England is because England are a massive national team with too many players so they don’t think they will get the call up then they realise that they can play for some other team with a more chance of being called up for and playing regularly
imagine januzaj in albania team
One player they missed off this list is/was Ryan Giggs. I'm sure Cesc Fabregas could have as well as he was classed as a UK citizen when he was playing for Arsenal, if my memories right
Giggs was never legible. It was either Wales or Sierra Leone.
@@goattm2 actually rules changed in 2009 which would have allowed Giggs to have played for England. The rules was the home nations association.
Giggs wasn't eligible. His parents and all his grandparents were Welsh. He was born in Wales. He only played for England schoolboys because the criteria was you represented the country where you were going to school at the time
I'm sure Giggs was able to play for England after the 2009 rule change. England were screaming out for a player of his caliber for many years and we ended up using right footed players on the left i:e Joe Cole, Steve McManaman and sometimes Steven Gerrard
The rule change was about 15 years after Giggs made his Wales debut
Being named Scott and playing for Scotland seems right
Hudson Odoi, Tariq Lamptey and Nketia will be in Your list soon
I think sitting in the bench is beeter then you play for small countries in small teams you get more chances and in big team you don't get enough chances so those players who chose other countries i think they made right desicion
I'm the same as Matty cash born in England my mam in Poland my dad in England but If I'm professional when I'm older I don't know who to play for
first
Just imagine
Erling halland
Jamal Musiala play for England in wc....
Real SCREWED UP Hazard, that wont help them in the future.
USA's Gio Reyna was born in England when his dad, Claudio played over there.
Second
Gareth bale is from the city I live in
The one that has been left off this list because he is not current is Ryan Giggs. They begged Giggs to play for England but he wanted, like Bale, to play for Wales.
I don't think Bale was eligible to play for England
Giggs didnt qualify to play for Wales
Giggs couldn't play for England. He had no ties. His parents and grandparents were Welsh. He was born in Wales.He only represented England schoolboys because the criteria was you represented the country where you were educated
Eddie Nketiah and Callum Hutson Odoi aswell
Can anyone explain the criteria for playing for a country...
First
what the players actually know when explaining why they don't want to play for england: "i will never win a trophy with england"
Facts bro 💯 💯 💯
The same for Italy when they know they will never be able to be in a world cup ever again.
@@ivanhendy5298
Hello hello
Yeah cause they have much more of a chance with wales,Norway and Scotland? 😂 never mind “winning” they won’t even qualify.
England never win any major trophy 🏆 since e 1966 WC at home ground...Their only trophy 🏆 that they have won .....and that was already 56 years ago!!! ...already more than half a century....they were so close to win e European Champions last June...but lost to ltaly in penalties.. so disappointed 😞
You forgot Eddie Nketiah who chose Ghana for his senior international debut, it is a recent one as well
Really?
@@dillionwon6587 yes, you did not know??
@@dillionwon6587 he did after securing his Ghanian passport
Eddie Nketiah has not played for Ghana
@@gwd1095 not yet but he will as he has now got their nationality, and he made it clear that he wants to play for them
If that Japanese goal against Spain was disallowed going over the line which it did, would Germany still be playing in the 2022 World Cup on goal difference, does anyone know please. It might have spoiled the World Cup a bit because Germany went up a few gears towards the end against Costa Rica.
The bottom of the ball is over the line, not the middle, the ball is round and whole shape of the ball counts and it's clearly not over the line, you don't have to be a genius to work that out. Unbelievable some of you are not smart enough to understand that.
McTominay has scored 4 goals in are two euro qualifiers with a brace against spain!
I wish Bale chose England but I respect him for choosing wales
So glad none of them played for
England.
Antonio should come to Jamaica a long time ago
You forgot to put in Brighton player lamptey
Zaha
Sonny could’ve naturalized for Germany. Would’ve been bizarre and cool to see a South Korean on the German national team. There were a couple of Koreans that went through La Masia at Barça and could’ve played for Spain. Still waiting to see a Korean like myself play for a different nation. If I wasn’t so ass during my youth days I could’ve been the first to debut as a Korean-American on the US national team
Who u play or played for bro
Why wouldn’t you want to play for South Korea though 😂😂they’re a good team, Son made the right decision
@@bababababababa6124 they are a team that will be lucky to win 2 games in our group this World Cup… without Son they are nothing lol
@@nyu9819 not necessarily. The South Korean national team has star defenders and an attacker like Son creates a nice balance for them.
@@nyu9819 dude, you legit beat Germany 2-0 the last world cup. That should be something to aspire to.
Haaland wow didn't no that , 😳
We(England) have got enough top players as it is, we don't really need any more good players, just think of the ones that are currently injured and aren't even English e.g. Raheem Sterling: Born in Kingston, Jamaica, plays for England, Fikayo Tomori: Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada(did exactly the same as Owen Hargreaves.) They just become naturalized English if they are living here long enough.
I could play for England or wales when I am older
What’s your other options?
bale actually said golf over his team madrid
I think Ryan Giggs was missed off your list and probly would of made quiet a difference to the England side ,playing with scoles Beckham , Neville,
He wasn't eligible. His parents and grandparents were all Welsh. He was born in Wales. The only reason he played for England schoolboys is because the criteria was that you represented the country where you went to school at the time