It has just been announced that yet another Ireland football player has retired from international football only. Damien Duff who is only 33 years old has retired from the honor of representing his country. He is not the first person to do this: Shay Given, Damien duff, Robbie Keane teased about it, the Fai is trying to bribe Richard Dunne to stay playing by offering him the captaincy and Stephan Ireland- well thats just another story with him.
It’s not just Irish players obviously, many players lucky enough to be a regular in their respective international teams retire from their country’s team at an early age to “focus on their club”
Ryan Giggs, Jamie Carragher, Jason Koumas, Paul Scholes just to name a few retired from international football quite early. Every single one of them said it was to “focus on their club career” but as we all know it was either because they were no longer good enough or simply because they didnt want to play damage limitation matches in world cup or euro championship qualifiers.
I find it outrageous that one of the people i mentioned earlier said that he wasn’t getting paid enough for international duty! In my opinion and the opinion of many others, you shouldn’t get paid at all for international duty. It should be an honor and a privilege to be even considered to represent your country to do the thing you love to do. Madness!
This is just my opinion but i feel that players should carry on representing their country for as long as they are physically able to, and not just pick and choose whether they want to do it or not.
themattsrus 