Fijian golfer Vijay Singh also won the PGA Championship in August, and finished the year as a member of the international squad that gave the star-studded U.S. team a severe drubbing in the President's Cup in Australia.
Stefan Klos was out to make a point after being frozen out of the German international squad and made a great save to block at the feet of Stuttgart's Alexander Hleb.
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He scored eight league goals last season as he made it to the fringe of the full Spanish international squad with a string of outstanding displays from the right side of attack.
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The Ospreys are desperate to conquer Europe and boast a squad of international stars.
The Ospreys, with the majority of their squad on international duty, looked well short of their best.
Okocha, who captained the Super Eagles in the 2002 World Cup after Sunday Oliseh was left out of the squad, quit international football following Nigeria's poor showing that saw them finish bottom of their group.
Significantly, the maximum number of permitted international players in each IPL squad has been increased from eight to 10 - with four allowed in the playing side at any one time.
But the rest of Britain's Olympians will act as mentors to a squad featuring many having their first taste of international competition.
Like seven of his American teammates and six from the international squad, Woods is using the event as a tune-up for the Presidents Cup in Melbourne.
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In a hot and humid Hong Kong, O'Connell is set to lead out the team against the Barbarians -- a scratch team of international players -- with 17 of the 23 players in the Lions' match-day squad pulling on the team jersey for the first time.
Savage quit international football after Toshack left the Blackburn player out of the squad to face the Austrians.
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Nick Barmby finds himself back in the England squad after almost four years in the wilderness of international football.
But the rest of the squad is a made up of young prospects whose international credentials are far from established.
He will take the place of Valon Behrami in the West Ham squad, as the Swiss international is close to securing a move to Fiorentina.
Injuries and international calls mean that coach Lynn Howells is without 18 of his squad, but they are determined to make the best of the challenge.
United's squad has been depleted because of injuries, players away on international duty and Rio Ferdinand still serving a suspension for missing a drugs test.
Detective Inspector Paul Holmes, of the Metropolitan police's vice squad, agreed the challenge for international law enforcement was to create conditions in which the victims felt safe enough to testify.
Levein said getting his Scotland tenure off to a winning start was important and stressed that his choice of squad did not signal the end of any player's international career.
It had been widely reported that the Middlesbrough midfielder was the most likely member of Kevin Keegan's squad to follow Alan Shearer into retirement from the international arena.
And while Blanc, a former international team-mate of Vieira, has stated that some of the current squad members might not be reselected, Vieira has little intention of filling any vacancy that might occur.
"With regards what happens to me in the next couple of months, that's fantastic news for the football association and for the international squad as a whole, " added Worthington.
Made captain by Tilson, the Grenada international striker has played a visible role as one of the most experienced players in the squad, bringing the players closer together.
There are also places for 40-year-old Middlesex skipper Shaun Udal and Notts all-rounder Samit Patel, who was recently left out of the squad for the Caribbean after "failing to reach acceptable standards of fitness for international cricket".
The international career of Saracens centre Andy Farrell is now almost certainly over after his omission from the squad.
Glasgow's international stars will, of course, return later in the season and Lineen stressed the importance of rotating his squad.
The 24-year-old England international has concerns over the squad's strength and said Gill had not given him "any of the assurances I was seeking about the future squad".
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