Internationals Archives: 08/2016

Currently on international duty with Switzerland, it seems as if Granit Xhaka has issued a statement saying he will do whatever he can to get to play for Kosovo.

Mo Marley’s England u19 side has been invited to play a tournament called the Women’s International Cup from the 18th to the 23rd of October in Northern Ireland.

Sam Allardyce has called Theo Walcott into his first England squad but has left Jack Wilshere and Alex Oxalde-Chamberlain out.

Laurent Koscielny and Olivier Giroud have been called up to the France squad that will face Italy and Belarus when the first interlull descends upon us next week.

Chris Coleman has hit out at Arsene Wenger for selecting Aaron Ramsey against Liverpool which saw the midfielder pick up an injury that has ruled him out for Wales’ upcoming international game (and, you know, some games for the club that actually pays his wages).

Chris Willock has been called up to the England u19 squad for their double header against the Netherlands and Belgium in September.

Serge Gnabry scored his penalty against Brazil in the final of the Rio Olympics Men’s Football tournament but had to watch on as the hosts won the shoot-out thanks to Neymar.

Arsenal’s centre-back, Josephine Henning, will come back to the club with an unexpected gold medal as Germany beat Sweden 2-1 in the Olympic final on Friday.

After scoring six goals in four appearances, if you were going to put money on one player to score to put Germany through the final of the Olympic’s football tournament, it would be Serge Gnabry.

The Arsenal centre back was again an unused sub and has not seen much game time in the tournament but will come back with at least a silver medal.

Granit Xhaka is one of a number of big name players who have been invited to play for Kosovo after they were finally granted FIFA status in May this year.

Serge Gnabry’s people have let it be known in Germany that a new contract for the player at Arsenal is ‘just a formality’ after the Olympics as the player continues to be linked with a loan move to Hertha Berlin.

Serge Gnabry is confident of sealing Germany’s place in the Olympic final when they face Nigeria at 8pm (UK) in Rio.

The Arsenal defender stayed on the bench for the whole 90 minutes as Germany beat China PR and avoided an upset, unlike world #1 USA and #3 France who went home earlier than expected.

There are two England senior camps planned next week and six Arsenal have been selected.

Unfortunately, Takuma Asano’s Japan were knocked out of the Rio 2016 Olympics on Wednesday night.

Serge Gnabry isn’t showing any signs of slowing down as he scored two more goals in Germany’s 10-0 triumph over Fiji in the Olympics on Wednesday night.

The Arsenal centre-back, Josephine Henning. was given her first start in the competition, but was withdrawn at half-time making way for Annike Krahn as Germany were defeated 2-1 by Canada.

We all know that there is no women’s football Team GB at the Rio Olympics because of politics and the respective home nation’s country FA’s being managed by people living a bit in the past, but how would it have looked if there ad been?

Takuma Asano isn’t letting Serge Gnabry steal all the Arsneal headlines from the Olympics as he grabbed his second of the tournament with another lovely takent effort.