Sorthern Northland national football team Number, name, age, position (n/a for goalies and forwards), club (club's country in brackets, if not a Sorthern club)
Goalkeepers:
1. Piran Hean (captain), 32 y/o, Ousevale Borough (Krytenia)
13. Leroy Nghiêm, 24 y/o, Marquez-Onwere (Candelaria And Marquez)
23: Yasser El-Borolossy, 18 y/o, 17th of October
The ever dependable Piran Hean naturally retains the number one jersey and the defence in front of him with confidence and now also has the added responsibility of having a captain's armband to go with the one he wears at his club side.
Leroy Nghiêm whose impressive displays of benchwarming for Marquez-Onwere have seen him move up to second in the pecking order. Just the captain standing in his way of the number one shirt now, exciting times! Oh, and Yasser El-Borolossy, who quite frankly looks more likely to become number one when Hean does eventually lose his place.
Defenders:
2: Margh Bastian, 30 y/o, right back, Atlético Jutense (Cafundéu)
12: Laura O'Bagels, 26 y/o, right back, Beningrad
Bastian, a right-back rather fond of bombing up and down the right-wing, even whilst rapidly losing the pace he once had retains the first choice right back slot. Though a left back for most of her career Laura O'Bagels is also quite capable on the right and will be making to look an impact should she be given a chance. And she's not in the squad just because of her surname and you can't prove anything.
3: Santiago Fuentes, 29 y/o, left back, Port of Clotaire (Candelaria And Marquez)
23: Mike Pohl, 22 y/o, left back, Tenderville United (Nethertopia)
Santiago Fuentes will have a point to prove – though some will say a weight of pressure off his shoulders – after being stripped of the captaincy following allegations that he drank a can of
Landsberg. Other than that indiscretion he's a very good attacking full-back who can on occasion get rather lost defensively. In reserve to him Pohl has spent the last few seasons in Tenderville maturing into a splendid (okay, a half decent) left-back and is a two time Di Bradini Cup winner, having lifted DBC12 as the Sorthern-U21 captain.
5: Candelario Oliveira Tavares, 29 y/o centre back, Emberton Reds (Krytenia)
6: Andrew Heywood, 26 y/o centre-back, Heathfield City
15: Kaeton Fishsnapperbottom, 24 y/o centre-back, Marquez-Onwere (Candelaria And Marquez)
16: Brian Andrews (vice-captain), 33 y/o centre-back, Port of Clotaire (Candelaria And Marquez)
Despite being vice-captain Andrews has most definitely dropped behind Fishsnapperbottom and Heywood in the pecking order. Each of are very capable centre backs and, yeah.... other than being good footballers they're all rather dull really. Fishsnapperbottom has a pet llama though. Maybe.
Midfielders:
7: Siobhan Ní hÓgáin, 27 y/o right winger, Corcaigh
27: Tadhg Ó Lorcáin, 19 y/o, right winger, St. Patrick's
Having seen the ban on women playing top level football in Sorthern Northland being lifted largely in part due to her efforts during World Cup 49 and the previous AOCAF Cup, Ní hÓgáin has made the number seven shirt her own after proving her critics wrong and developing into a fine winger with a knack for mazy runs, accurate crosses and an eye for goal.
Ó Lorcáin meanwhile hails from the fine academy of football that is the Little Clotaire based Saint Patrick's Football Club. Famous for producing really good Sorthern footballers and shipping them off to the real Clotaire to play for Port of Clotaire in the CMSC. Ó Lorcáin with his pace, his silky skills, and his oh so good crosses has all the attributes to follow in the footsteps of the likes Lee Waywide, Alan Cooper, Franny Sánchez Garciá and Iñaki Arrigorwhashisface.
11: Timm Holtz, 26 y/o, left winger, Tenderville United (Nethertopia)
17: Baral Qaavigaaq, 22 y/o, left winger, East Reading
Timm Holtz stays as first choice left winger despite his tendency to go completely missing in the red and gold shirt of Sorthern Northland. In reserve Baral Qaavigaaq, who as well as having more a's than his really smart sister got at school is good with both feet (really though, these lot are professional footballers, they should be able to use either foot), a fine taker of set-pieces and coming from the Northern Wastes is a man who considers any temperature above 0°C as nice and warm. Makes a lovely fish stew as well. Has crap fitness though, which is perhaps why he's not first choice.
4: Martijn Barentstochter of Bergkamp of Drotske of Groethuysen of Hackenbroch of Struycken, 27 y/o Central-midfielder, NAPCC (Nethertopia)
8: Will Hooper, 24 y/o, central midfielder, Port of Clotaire (Candelaria And Marquez)
14: Frank Vroon, 29 y/o, central midfielder, América (Cafundéu)
18: Aisling Ní Cheallaigh, 20 y/o, central midfielder, Baile an Fheirtéaraigh
Barentstochter of Bergkamp of etcetera (we just tend to call him Martijn to be honest) as well as providing a massive windfall in takings on replica shirts for his club provides the box-to-box drive and grit and determination and all those other words that unstylish but effective midfielders are described with. Hooper meanwhile provides the creativity and the passes to bring the crowds to their feet, and having been shifted to the right wing at Port of Clotaire is versatile as well. Which is always handy.
Vroon is in much the same mould as Martijn, though he does lack Martijn's sexy haircut. The long drawn out end to Marek Krofcky's international career would finally seem to have arrived with his place in the squad being taken by Aisling Ní Cheallaigh, who some are saying is the finest Sorthern attacking midfield talent since the Krofcky first broke onto the scene. Oh, those days when Krofcky was proclaimed as the future of Sorthern football. Weren't they wonderful, Nóirín? Nóirín?
Forwards:
9: Francisco Manuel Sánchez Garciá, 29 y/o, Port of Clotaire (Candelaria And Marquez)
10: Iñaki Arrigorriagakoa, 29 y/o, Port of Clotaire (Candelaria And Marquez)
19: Eulàlia Marxuach, 22 y/o, Reading Town
20: Seán Ó Murchú, 21 y/o, Rode Ster Amsterdam
Considered by many Sortherners (and probably very few other people to tell the truth) to be amongst the best strike partnerships in the whole motherflukeing-multiversez Sánchez Garciá and Iñaki (we call 'im that, we can't pronounce his surname unfortunately) certainly know each other inside out having spent much of their professional career playing – and scoring plenty of goals – together at the quaint Harper Street. They certainly can prove to be a handful for any defence out there. Marxuach meanwhile broke into the senior team looking to have a bright future having scored plenty of goals at Di Bradini Cup 12 (which we won, might've mentioned that when talking about Mike Pohl) whilst Ó Murchú is always capable of finding the vague vicinity of the goal, a handy skill for a striker to possess. Though a number of his efforts do end up in row Z. Still, they said that about Lee Waywide once.
Coaching staff:
Manager: Caio Meback
Assistant manager: Ray Kirs
Coach: Tighearnach Ó Conaill
Coach: Amets Urzúa
Fitness coach: Seòras Mac a' Ghrùdair
Goalkeeping coach: Jonny Sage
Physiotherapist: Ashleigh Trumble
Kitman: Fernando Cervera
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Numbers 1 to 11 are the usual starters.
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