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No intention of playing for England after World Cup: Carragher

By Super Admin

London, May 20 (ANI): Liverpool veteran Jamie Carragher, who is only making a World Cup comeback because England needs him, has no intention of carrying on with the team after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Carragher, 32, who quit England three years ago, said it will be South Africa and out again and that he only agreed to take part because of injuries.

Relaxing at England's training camp high in the Austrian mountains, Carragher realised that his time as a player was fast running out, The Sun reports.

"I've been playing football since I was five years of age and in another five years I'll probably never kick a football for the rest of my life. This is the chance to play at the highest level again plus, equally important, to work with this manager. Over the past 10 years Mr Capello has been the stand-out manager in world football," The Sun quoted Carragher, as saying.

Carragher retired as an international because he was fed-up playing all over the globe as a member of the squad. It was time to concentrate on Liverpool.

He is again in the same position as he was at the last World Cup, behind John Terry and Rio Ferdinand for the central defensive positions and a reserve right back.

Carragher's reincarnation is all the more surprising because he wrote in his autobiography how Liverpool was more important to him than England, The Sun reports.

He also told how his missed penalty in the 2006 World Cup quarter-final shootout against Portugal did not matter in the same way it would had he missed for his club.

"The stuff I mentioned in my book wasn't so much a slight on England, it was more that Liverpool means that much to me. But I couldn't complain if there wasn't a great reaction against Mexico at Wembley on Monday," he said. (ANI)

Story first published: Thursday, August 24, 2017, 17:07 [IST]
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