{"id":47,"date":"2016-08-11T17:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T17:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2017-10-25T13:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T17:00:33","slug":"british-players-abroad-gary-lineker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2016\/08\/11\/british-players-abroad-gary-lineker\/","title":{"rendered":"British Players Abroad: Gary Lineker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new series of articles focusing on the <strong>British<\/strong> players who have spent a portion of their career away from their native soil. The first part focuses on one of the best-known faces in <strong>English<\/strong> football. In spite of this, not a lot tends to be written about the club career of <strong>Gary Lineker<\/strong>. It seems largely forgotten that, during the <strong>1980\u2019s<\/strong>, he played for one of the biggest clubs in world football.<\/p>\n<h1>British Players Abroad: Gary Lineker<\/h1>\n<h3>British Players Abroad<\/h3>\n<p>The <strong>Premier League<\/strong> has a large percentage of players from all over the world plying their trade. Many clubs have more players from outside the <strong>British Isles<\/strong> than not. Strangely enough, this does not work both ways, and never really has.<\/p>\n<p>Look at all of the \u201c<strong>Home Nations<\/strong>\u201d who qualified for <strong>Euro 2016<\/strong>. Other than <strong>Gareth Bale<\/strong> at <em>Real Madrid<\/em>, only two players from those four teams play outside of <strong>Britain<\/strong>. They are <strong>Ireland<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Robbie Keane <\/strong>(<strong>L.A. Galaxy<\/strong>) and <strong>Northern Ireland<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Aaron Hughes<\/strong> (Melbourne City). The fact that both are in the twilight of their careers, and not playing in any of the world\u2019s top leagues, tells its own story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can find the rest of this article at our previous site\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\" target=\"_self\">Last word on sports<\/a>. Keep it locked here on <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Football<\/a>\u00a0for all the latest analysis, news, opinion and more about the beatiful game as we expand and bring you a dedicated, football only site. It is all the best of what you expect from last word, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new series of articles focusing on the British players who have spent a portion of their career away from their native soil. The first part focuses on one of the best-known faces in English football. In spite of this, not a lot tends to be written about the club career of Gary Lineker. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials","category-featured","category-la-liga"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}