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or consider Bale as the regular starter for a minor nation.
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Sissoko got 71 caps for France over about 10 years, I don’t think that really counts as fringe?
But to answer the question give me fringe at a bigger nation assuming some of those caps come at an international tournament. If you get lucky, you could come away either the World Cup or Euros/Copa America. Or both. If it’s fringe where you only ever play in qualifiers and friendlies then regular starter for a smaller nation is better.
Depends how small though, if it’s like Papua New Guinea don’t even call me up.
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Left Bale out after consideration because at his peak he would have walked into any XI in the world, club or country.
Sissoko is a stretch, admittedly, but he has also only played ≈600 minutes across 1 WC and 2 Euros. He's played a lot for France, but not a lot when it really mattered. And, most painfully, not when they lifted the World Cup.
For the sake of the hypothetical, I'd say a minor footballing nation like Wales, Austria, Costa Rica, Colombia. I.e. if you play for these nations as a "big" player, you're almost certainly going to play in at least one WC. You're also almost guaranteed never to actually win a medal.
On the flipside, as a marginal player for a major footballing nation, there's no guarantee you'll make a squad for a major tournament. But if you do, there's a decent chance you will win a medal.
The conundrum is you have to make this choice as a teenager, without any real knowledge of how things will pan out, despite the fantasies of youth whispering in your ear that you're going to be an all time great.
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These 2 are too good for U21s but not good enough to play against men.
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And Cape Verde (population just over 500k) have reached World Cup despite being ranked as 70th.
Africa has 9 team places reserved for it (dare I suggest the quid pro quo for supporting
Gets subbed off at half time. Despite being probably the only one not being totally useless in the first half. Genuinely think the manager is actively trying to get sacked now.
The Danish sleeper agent is out to get us.
Whao Jordan Pickford no longer looks like a wannabe bank manager!
Literally boys against men!
We hired Danish Ange.
He is dead set on having us play his style of attacking football and it refuses to click after a hot start in the nations league.
An improvement on last month's 2-0 defeat to Kosovo though
Doesn't help that our strikers went on a strike during the summer and has been completely unfit during these qualifiers. The Dane is obviously the big problem though. Sweden has never sacked a manager before but I assume that will change now.
In a sense Isak and Gyökeres going like this is kharma for their behaviour in the summer. Shame that it happened just when we needed them the most.