Anything other than a Rooney performance rolling back about 12 years will cast further doubt on the player’s ability to last the course until Russian Federation. “Russian Federation will be my last opportunity to do anything with England so I’m going to try to enjoy these two years and hopefully I can end my time with England on a high”, he added. “Hopefully I can end my time with England on a high”, he said (via ESPN and BBC).
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“I said before the Euros I enjoyed playing in this team, and that’s the case still”. The reason why it is important is so that Rashford “gets games because he hasn’t played much” says Rooney and he thinks “it will be good for him” going forward.
“I made my mind up before the Euros, whether we did well or didn’t do well, that I would continue after the tournament”.
“It’s still two years away and I started playing professional football at 16 and global when I was 17 so it’ll have been 15 years, it’s a lot of years and I think that’ll be the right time to finish”. “My mind is made up”. “Russian Federation will be my last tournament”.
The 1966 world champions suffered an embarrassing exit at the hands of Iceland in the round of 16 in Euro 2016.
The 30-year-old was once England’s unquestioned star and has a remarkable 53 goals for the Three Lions, but the last few years have been tough on him. His level of play has stopped and he’s been under criticism for club and country, especially as both have brought in young players who some feel are better than him.
11 & 2 – Having been famously sent off against Portugal in the 2006 World Cup and again in a Euro 2012 qualifier in Montenegro, Rooney also has 11 yellow cards in his worldwide career. Allardyce has even clarified Rooney’s position, saying that his captain will play as a No. 10.
“In a multi-national side from all over the world he could speak four different languages, communicate very well with some of the players who couldn’t speak quite as good English”. Then I said to myself “become an international”.
Rooney’s England-record goal haul.
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The 22-year-old has enjoyed an impressive start to the season at Everton and Allardyce insists that “the door is always open” for an England return for Barkley.
