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Non-Scottish Players Included in World Cup Squads While Playing for a Scottish Club

Published on March 14, 2009 by Alistair Briggs in Soccer

Here is a list of all non-Scottish football players who were selected for their national teams squad in the World Cup while playing for a Scottish club. Some may not have played in any of the matches but all were members of the squad.

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As the description says, below you will find a list of all non-Scottish players who were included in their national teams World Cup squad while playing for a Scottish football team. You will find the players name, the Scottish club they played for, their nationality and the year they were included in the squad.

1	Artur Boruc	Celtic	Poland	2006
2	Bertie Peacock	Celtic	Northern Ireland	1958
3	Billy Simpson	Rangers	Northern Ireland	1958
4	Brian Laudrup	Rangers	Denmark	1998
5	Chris Morris	Celtic	Ireland	1990
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7	Claudio Cannigia	Rangers	Argentina	2002
8	Colin Miller	Rangers	Canada	1986
9	Colin Samuel	Dundee United	Trinidad & Tobago	2006
10	Dado Prso	Rangers	Croatia	2006
11	Densil Theobald	Falkirk	Trinidad & Tobago	2006
12	Fan Zhiyi	Dundee	China	2002
13	Gary Stevens	Rangers	England	1990
14	Hamed Namouchi	Rangers	Tunisia	2006
15	Hans Gillhaus	Aberdeen	Holland	1990
16	Henrik Larsson	Celtic	Sweden	2002
17	Jason Scotland	St Jonstone	Trinidad & Tobago	2006
18	Johan Mjallby	Celtic	Sweden	2002
19	John McLelland	Rangers	Northern Ireland	1982
20	Kelvin Jack	Dundee	Trinidad & Tobago	2006
21	Maciej Zurawski	Celtic	Poland	2006
22	Marc Reiper	Celtic	Denmark	1998
23	Marvin Andrews	Rangers	Trinidad & Tobago	2006
24	Morten Weighorst	Celtic	Denmark	1998
25	Pat Bonner	Celtic	Ireland	1990+94
26	Peter Kjaer	Aberdeen	Denmark	2002
27	Peter Lovenkrands	Rangers	Denmark	2002
28	Russel Latapy	Falkirk	Trinidad & Tobago	2006
29	Shunsuke Nakamura	Celtic	Japan	2006
30	Terry Butcher	Rangers	England	1990
31	Theo Snelders	Aberdeen	Holland	1994
32	Tommy Coyne	Motherwell	Ireland	1994
33	Trevor Steven	Rangers	England	1990
34	Ulises De La Cruz	Hibs	Ecuador	2002

Football trivia is a something that many people take an interest in, whether they are a real football fan or not. There are many many trivia questions that float about very often, I know, as I get asked them all the time when in the pub. Which team did…..? What player was……? How many times…..? the list goes on and on. Someboy once asked me to name every player who had ever competed at a World Cup and had at some point in their career played in Scotland. The more I thought about that, the more names I came up with. It was a very large number.

So what I have done above is narrowed the results down by asking a different question. If the question had been ‘How many players, while playing for a Scottish club, were picked for a World Cup finals squad?’ the number would be well over 100 due to the fact that it would include Scottish players. So I made the question ’Name all Non-scottish Players Included in World Cup Squads While Playing for a Scottish Club?’ and found that the answer had 34 answers. I tried the question out on some people. A few did ok, most struggled. But the problem was no-one could find the conclusive list written down anywhere, so it was decided to make it and that is what you see above.

Tags: Scotland, Scottish Football, World Cup

10 Comments

Sotiris

Posted March 14, 2009 at 6:12 am

That happens with a greek soccer player too. I don’t remember his name though!
Betty Carew

Posted March 14, 2009 at 8:07 am

Well done Alistair, I’m not a sports fan but your article was very well written and well presented
Darla Smith

Posted March 14, 2009 at 8:10 am

Interesting article.
rutherfranc

Posted March 14, 2009 at 3:33 pm

I guess football fans will have a field day because of this trivia.. good share..
George W Whitehead

Posted March 14, 2009 at 4:42 pm

Great list, Alistair.
Alina Beck

Posted March 14, 2009 at 4:49 pm

Just for a second, I thought this was a list of non-Scottish players who had somehow played for the Scottish World Cup squad!! Doh! Nice trivia fest
Alistair Briggs

Posted March 14, 2009 at 6:21 pm

lol@Alina Beck, although interestingly there has been a few players who have played international football for Scotland even though they were born outwith the country. For example both Andy Goram and Stuart McCall were born in England but played for Scotland. Richard Gough was born in Sweden but still won 67 caps for Scotland
Juancav

Posted March 14, 2009 at 10:27 pm

A researched list,well done.
CutestPrincess

Posted March 16, 2009 at 7:00 am

whoa, this is awesome list.. ill check them out!
revivor

Posted March 21, 2009 at 3:24 am

Bonkers post!!
Love it though – I’m a statto too
Could start a trend here – well done – revivor