For the first time since 1990 English team In the semi-final stage of the World Cup.
The team's performance in Russia has excited fans who are dreaming of celebrating their second world title, and are even singing “Football is coming home” – football is coming home.
Football's inventors only lifted the trophy in 1966, specifically at home, but a large portion of fans had not been born then.
The gap without achievements raises a question: Why don't the British play as a team defending the United Kingdom ?
The team will be stronger and, who knows, more relevant on the world stage.
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The answer has everything to do with it tradition. Unlike the Olympic Games, where the countries that make up today United kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) defend the same flag, in football each country has its own football association.
a FIFAthe entity that controls sport in England, for example, was founded in 1863 – 41 years before the Revolution. FIFA. The great rivalry between the countries, which had a major impact on FIFA, kept them apart in international matches.
At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the United Kingdom participated in the football tournament. The cast was made up of 13 Englishmen and five Welshmen, including the Manchester United legend Ryan Giggswho has never played in the Welsh Cup.
Currently a Real Madrid striker Gareth Balealso born in Wales, He will definitely be the main reinforcement for Utopia's team Great Britain and Northern Ireland In Russian territory.
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