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Fast Midfielder
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 Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:31 pm Post subject: Victory Internationals |
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| Why do the Home Countries not regard the Victory Internationals they played in 1919 and 1945-1946 as official? |
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EL G
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Might have been military teams. The "Jeux Interalliés" (I don't know what words I should use to translate this) organized in France in 1919 were not considered as "official" too. The countries involved were : France, Ceskoslovakia, Italy, Greece and maybe an other one. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| I believe the players were almost the regular national team players. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Sure. For those who were still alive. It might have been a kind of homage to those who disappeared. Or a tournament between allied countries to celebrate victory... |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2009 11:01 am Post subject: |
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| mcruic wrote: |
| I believe the players were almost the regular national team players. |
So do I, but why English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish FA does not regard Victory Internationals as official? Some of these matches have been played almost a year after the War. |
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They were created as Victory Internationals as part of wider celebrations on VE Day and carried on, but not really sure why they could not award caps or be classed as full games.
During the war, players sometimes played for England that were actually from Wales or Scotland due to a lack of numbers, don't know if this was the same in the Victory Internationals
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| Aki13 wrote: |
During the war, players sometimes played for England that were actually from Wales or Scotland due to a lack of numbers, don't know if this was the same in the Victory Internationals |
please can you tell me which matches England fielded Welsh or Scottish players? |
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Sorry I done some research and it was England who let Stan Mortensen play for Wales on 25th Sept 1943. England 8-3 Wales.
Im sorry I thought I remembered reading about it the other way around, although I have looked through some books I cannot find comformation that England ever did the same.
But I guess this may have happen in other places.
Sorry to have misled you there.
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| On 02-12-1939 Samuel Barkass and Eric Brook, from Manchester City, were due to start the England 2-1 Scotland game but were involved in a car accident on the way to Newcastle. Their places were taken over by Joseph Richardson and Thomas Pearson - who was Scottish - from the home ground team. |
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