{"id":335649,"date":"2011-03-24T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/24\/former-chelsea-midfielder-ray-wilkins-champions-league-overshadows-international-football\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T16:47:00","slug":"former-chelsea-midfielder-ray-wilkins-champions-league-overshadows-international-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/former-chelsea-midfielder-ray-wilkins-champions-league-overshadows-international-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Chelsea midfielder Ray Wilkins: Champions League overshadows international football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h4>24 Mar 2011 16:47:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"65.2798982188\">\n<div readability=\"12.5033112583\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ray Wilkins - Chelsea (PA)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/83fcc63a43550_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ray Wilkins &#8211; Chelsea (PA)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"27.723943662\"><\/p>\n<p>        Former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/16\/england\">England<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> stalwart Ray Wilkins has claimed that international football now plays second fiddle to the Champions League. <\/p>\n<p>Wilkins, capped 84 times for the Three Lions, was asked by <strong>Goal.com<\/strong> at the latest <strong>Castrol EDGE webchat<\/strong> if the international game is in decline. <\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;Well, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s in decline as such but the Champions League is such a wonderful competition that it seems to have taken over international football. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019d never say international football was in decline because that\u2019s the pinnacle of your career, whether it be as a player, or as a coach or as a manager.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You want to play for your national team and you want to play as much as you possibly can for them as well. But there\u2019s so much football being played at the moment and injuries being picked up \u2013 the Champions League is such a wonderful competition that it does tend to overshadow what\u2019s going on out there in international football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Chelsea assistant coach was participating in the <strong>Castrol EDGE <\/strong><strong>webchat <\/strong>with ex-England boss Glenn Hoddle ahead of England&#8217;s Euro 2012 qualifier with Wales on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>Wilkins added, &#8220;We\u2019re playing in Wales; the stadium will be absolutely packed, great atmosphere. I expect us England to win, we\u2019ve got far more experience.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/83fcc63a43550_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/3284\/euro-2012\/2011\/03\/24\/2409536\/former-chelsea-midfielder-ray-wilkins-champions-league\" title=\"Former Chelsea midfielder Ray Wilkins: Champions League overshadows international football\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Former Chelsea midfielder Ray Wilkins: Champions League overshadows international football<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 24 Mar 2011 16:47:00 Ray Wilkins &#8211; Chelsea (PA) Related Links Teams Former England and Chelsea stalwart Ray Wilkins has claimed that international football now plays second fiddle to the Champions League. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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