Everton and the World Cup in 102 easy steps..

ToffeeDan · May 21, 2014

This is a little taster for the World Cup... so far I have identified 102 links between Everton FC and the World Cups.. no doubt you can correct me and add a few more..

Directly involved (or projected to be involved) whilst an Everton player - that is to say selected to play in a World Cup Finals

England
1 Baines L
2 Ball A (winner in 1966, whilst playing for Blackpool)
3 Barkley R
4 Jagielka P
5 Labone B
6 Lineker G (top scorer WC 1986)
7 Newton K
8 Reid P
9 Steven T
10 Stevens G
11 Wilson R (winner 1966)
12 Wright T
also
13 (Stones J)

Scotland
14 McCall S
15 Parker A (first Everton player to play in a World Cup)
16 Sharp G

Sweden
17 Linderoth T
18 Alexandersson N

Eire
19 Sheedy K
20 Carsley L

Switzerland
21 Senderos P

USA
22 Max-Moore J
23 Howard T

Nigeria
24 Yobo J
25 Yakubu

Norway
26 Myhre T

Croatia
27 Bilic S

Denmark
28 Gravesen T

South Africa
29 Pienaar S

Portugal
30 Nuno Valente

Ivory Coast
31 Traore L

Holland
32 Heitinga J (runner-up)

Australia
33 Cahill T

Belgium
34 Mirallas K

The next part below - those who have played for Everton and been to a World Cup Finals.

ToffeeDan · May 21, 2014

Persons involved in the World Cup with an Everton connection (though not representing their country whilst playing for Everton)

England

Rooney W 1
Sansom K 2
Beardsley P 3
McMahon S 4
Gascoigne P 5
Martyn N 6
Keown M 7
Barry G 8
(Martin A - youth player at Everton) 9
(Woods C - coach at Everton) 10
(Ruddy J) 11

Scotland
Collins B 12
Scott A 13
Harper J 14
Hartford A 15
Rioch B 16
Wood G 17
Gough R 18
Johnston M 19
Collins J 20
Gemmill S 21
Weir D 22
(Donachie W - coach at Everton) 23
(Smith W - manager at Everton) 24

Wales
Vernon R 25

Northern Ireland
Jennings P 26 (although registered at Everton on loan at the time of his appearance)
Whiteside N 27

Sweden
Limpar A 28
Rehn S 29
Blomqvist J 30

Eire
Peyton G 31
Phelan T 32
Kilbane K 33
Dunne R 34

Switzerland
Hottiger M 35

USA
Preki 36
McBride B 37
Donovan L 38
Hahnemann M 39

Nigeria
Amokachi D 40

Norway
Baardsen E 41

Croatia
Jelavic N 42

Denmark
Jacobsen L 43
Kroldrup P 44

China
Li Tie 45
Li Weifeng 46

Portugal
Xavier A 47

Italy
Materazzi M 48 (winner)

Ecuador
Castillo S 49

Germany
Hitzlsperger T 50
(Mustafi S) 51

Ivory Coast
Kone A 52

Australia
Neill L 53
Carney D 54

France
Saha L 55

Paraguay
Alcaraz A 56

Slovakia
Mucha J 57 (had signed a pre-contract agreement, prior to WC2010, to join Everton)

Trinidad and Tobago
(Lawrence D) 58 (coach at Everton)

Brazil
Jo 59

Belgium
Fellaini M 60
Lukaku R 61 (registered at Everton at time of squad announcement)

34 Everton players 61 players who played for other clubs at the time..

96-100 5 World Cup matches at Goodison in 1966
101 Ray Wilson parades the trophy around Goodison (with Roger Hunt) at the FA Charity Shield in 1966
102 CD Everton's home ground "Sausalito" was used in the 1962 World Cup finals.

youngblue66 · May 31, 2014

ToffeeDan said:
This is a little taster for the World Cup... so far I have identified 102 links between Everton FC and the World Cups.. no doubt you can correct me and add a few more..

Directly involved (or projected to be involved) whilst an Everton player - that is to say selected to play in a World Cup Finals

England
1 Baines L
2 Ball A (winner in 1966, whilst playing for Blackpool)
3 Barkley R
4 Jagielka P
5 Labone B
6 Lineker G (top scorer WC 1986)
7 Newton K
8 Reid P
9 Steven T
10 Stevens G
11 Wilson R (winner 1966)
12 Wright T
also
13 (Stones J)

Scotland
14 McCall S
15 Parker A (first Everton player to play in a World Cup)
16 Sharp G

Sweden
17 Linderoth T
18 Alexandersson N

Eire
19 Sheedy K
20 Carsley L

Switzerland
21 Senderos P

USA
22 Max-Moore J
23 Howard T

Nigeria
24 Yobo J
25 Yakubu

Norway
26 Myhre T

Croatia
27 Bilic S

Denmark
28 Gravesen T

South Africa
29 Pienaar S

Portugal
30 Nuno Valente

Ivory Coast
31 Traore L

Holland
32 Heitinga J (runner-up)

Australia
33 Cahill T

Belgium
34 Mirallas K

The next part below - those who have played for Everton and been to a World Cup Finals.

Gordon West was called up for the 1970 World Cup but elected to stay at home with his family.