craig bellamy is the most capped england football player.
who is the most capped england football player?
craig bellamy
greenwood included him in the squad for the european championship finals in italy as an experienced reserve, but hughes ultimately did not play and england were eliminated in the group stages. hughes was england's only connection with their previous foray into the finals of a tournament – the 1970 world cup – but his non-participation in either made him england's most capped player never to feature in a major finals. he also became only the fifth player to represent england in three separate decades, joining jesse pennington, stanley matthews, bobby charlton and peter shilton. the 57 caps hughes earned in the 1970s make him the most capped england player of that decade.
emlyn hughes
the current head coach of the owls is steve marino, who will begin his 23rd year coaching westfield state in 2011. he has the second longest coaching tenure in the 16-team new england football conference, highlighted by three consecutive nefc championship game appearances in 2001, 2002, and 2003. during the past nine seasons, the owls have compiled a 41-23 divisional record. marino guided the 2001 squad to its first perfect regular season, a 10-0 record. the owls won their first new england football conference championship and qualified for their first ncaa tournament, where they lost to western connecticut state, 8-7, in a first-round game. marino's coaching during the special 2001 season did not go unnoticed as he was selected the american football coaches association northeast region coach of the year; the new england division ii/iii coach of the year by the new england sportswriters, and the gridiron club of greater boston division ii/iii coach of the year. marino has been the new england football conference coach of the year twice. he was a unanimous pick by the coaches during the nefc championship season, and the nefc coach of the year in 1992 when the owls were 6-3. in the spring of 1990, marino was named head coach at westfield state. marino is the fourth head coach in the westfield state football program’s 30-year history, and he has provided the stability that was lacking in the program's first decade when there were three head coaches during an eight-year span.
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