As one of the four teams represented by English football, Welsh football has not had a strong presence in world football for a long time. Looking back at wales, they have only appeared in the final rounds of the World Cup once (1958) and the final rounds of the European Championship twice (2016 and this year). In fact, Welsh football has also produced many representative stars throughout the generations, until after the 2010s, Wales ushered in a period of high-intensity talent, and had the opportunity to show their faces and perform well in the World Series.
10. Chris Gunter
In his career, Chris Gunter plays as a right-back and can also appear on both sides of the brakes, the style of the ball is biased towards the attacking defender, the individual speed is fast, the ability to turn back and grab is strong. Like Ramsey, Gunter is from Cardiff City's youth system. In his subsequent career, Gunter has played for Tottenham, Nottingham Forest, Reading and Charlton, and has been in the Championship for a long time.
Chris Gunter belongs to the national team achievement is significantly higher than the club's achievements, since the age of 18 less than 18 years old to become the starting international of Wales, the current 31 years of age has been a cumulative 102 games for Wales, high attendance and performance is also very reliable, as the team's history of the king of appearances, Guntel occupies a position in the list is justified.
Craig Bellamy
For the name of Bellamy, I believe that veteran fans who know English football should not be unfamiliar. As a well-known Ronin striker, Bellamy and High Speed Breaker are known for their hard work on the pitch, playing for Norwich City, Coventry, Newcastle, Celtic, Blackburn, Liverpool, West Ham, Manchester City, Cardiff City and many other British teams.
For the national team, Bellemi played a total of 78 games for the team between 1998 and 2013, scoring 19 goals, and was a thigh player for Wales in the first decade of the new century. After Ryan Giggs officially withdrew from the national team in 2007, Bellamy took over the captain's armband for a while.
VIII. John Toshak
Looking back at the history of Welsh football, the most outstanding performance of their players in the middle and front three is the front. Between the 60s and 70s, John Toshak was arguably their number one. During his five seasons at Cardiff City from 1965 to 1970, Toshaq scored 74 goals in 162 games and 96 goals in 246 games for Liverpool from 1970 to 1978.
For the national team, between 1969 and 1980, Toshak played 40 games and scored 13 goals. Compared with his slightly longer playing career, modern fans are familiar with this famous player more from his coaching impression. Back in the early 1980s, Shatok spent five years bringing fourth-division side Swansea to the top flight, shocking European football. Since then, Châteauk has coached Real Sociedad, Real Madrid, A Coruña, Saint-Etienne and the Welsh national team.
VII. Aaron Ramsey
In his career, Aaron Ramsey mainly plays in the attacking midfield, and can also pull the left and right forwards and even wingers, defense, organization, advancement, shooting attributes are not bad, but unfortunately in the early years of Arsenal suffered a broken leg, behind a large impact on the speed and ceiling of the rise.
As a player trained by Cardiff's youth, Ramsey became famous very early, only 16 years old and 124 days when he first appeared in the Championship, and his performance at the age of 18 made Cardiff City receive about 5 million pounds of offers from Manchester United, Arsenal and Everton.
After some thought, Ramsey decided to join Arsenal to play for Wenger. During his time with the Gunners from 2008 to 2019, Ramsey made a total of 263 appearances, contributing 43 goals and 45 assists. In 2019, Ramsey moved to Serie A giants Juventus and finally scored the first heavyweight trophy of his career in the 19/20 season.
On the national team side, Aaron Ramsey is Wales' most trusted midfielder over the past decade, scoring 17 goals in 66 appearances since 2008, and Wales has made good achievements in the Final Round of the European Championship twice.
6. Billy Meridian
Billy Méridiffe was the first superstar of Welsh football and the early European superstar of modern football, mainly active from 1894 to 1924, with the player himself driving the crane west in 1958. At that time, football did not have a clear division of labor, but Méridiv was accustomed to moving on the right and playing as an outfielder. In the early 2-3-5 formation, the outfielder was responsible for the center and the inside, and this position has disappeared from modern football or evolved into a winger. Méridiv enjoys playing with a toothpick and has an extremely long career, playing until the age of 49 before retiring.
Billy Méridiffe scored 129 goals in 339 games for Manchester City from 1894 to 1906, and 35 goals in 303 games for Manchester United from 1907 to 1921 before returning to Manchester City to play for another three years. It can be said that the two males in Man city have left a brilliant record, and this Welshman is also an early god and man. For the national team, between 1895 and 1920 he played 48 games for Wales, contributing 11 goals.
V. Mark Hughes
Mark Hughes is an extremely talented striker with an unforgettable ability to handle the ball on his feet and his ability to plan his attack. A famous player produced by Manchester United's academy, Mark Hughes rose to fame at Manchester United in the early 1980s, then went out to play briefly with Bayern in Barcelona in 1988 and then for Manchester United in 1988 until 1995.
Mark Hughes then played at Chelsea, Southampton, Everton and Blackburn for a while until he retired at the age of 37. In the two Manchester United eras, Mark Hughes played a total of 365 games, contributed 120 goals, and his contribution and ability are classics in the history of the Red Devils.
For the national team, Mark Hughes played a total of 72 games between 1984 and 1999, contributing 16 goals. It can only be said that Wales at that stage was a bit top-heavy, and it was a pity that the attacking players were brilliant and still failed to advance to the final round of the international competition.
IV. John Charles
John Charles was an football star active in the 1940s and early 1970s, coming from the Swansea club's youth system, playing as a striker and then playing as a defender in his youth, and not receiving a single yellow card or red card in his long career, which is a typical example of early gentleman players.
Ten years before his debut, John Charles played for Leeds United, scoring 150 goals in 297 games. Since then, John Charles moved to Juventus in Serie A in 1957, contributing 93 goals in 150 appearances in five years, and his efficiency has improved again, and he is the representative of the early foreign superstars in Serie A. Later, Charles was in a state of decline, moving to Leeds United, Roma, Cardiff City and other clubs until he retired at the age of 43.
Between 1950 and 1965, John Charles made 38 appearances for Wales, scoring 15 goals. In February 2004, John Charles died of a heart attack at the age of 72. If you watched Leeds United's away match against Manchester United on 21 February 2004, you will remember the 1-minute silence of more than 60,000 fans in The Famous Man, which is enough to witness his position in English football.
Iii. Ian Rush
From the early eighties to the mid-nineties, Ian Rush was Wales' most iconic star and an extremely efficient goalscoring machine in European football. During his career, Ian Rush played for Chester City, Liverpool, Juventus, Leeds United, Newcastle and Sheffield, with the most prominent liverpool performance before playing for Juve from 1987 to 1988, the Reds years.
In Liverpool history, Ian Rush, who has scored a total of 346 goals, is the Reds' top scorer, and the cumulative number of goals is far ahead of others. During his Reds career, Ian Rush helped Liverpool win the English top flight five times and led the team to win the Champions League in Europe in the 83/84 season.
On the FIFA side, between 1980 and 1996, Ian Rush made 73 appearances and scored 28 goals, making him the Welsh striker king before Bale. Unfortunately, in Ian Rush's heyday, Wales' overall strength was mediocre, and he was unable to lead the team to the final round of the tournament.
II. Ryan Giggs
From 1990 to 2014, Ryan Giggs has been playing for Manchester United clubs, can play as left winger, center forward, forward and other positions, during which time he represented Manchester United in 963 games, scoring a total of 168 goals, helping the team win 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League titles, and is also the assist king in the history of the Premier League. Arguably, combining honor data on seniority, Ryan Giggs is a strong contender for the first man in premier league history.
For the national team, Ryan Giggs made a total of 64 appearances between 1991 and 2007, scoring 12 goals. Junsheng I am not born, Junlao I am not old, Giggs and Rush's peak staggered, is the regret of the two, but also the regret of two generations of Welsh fans, and like Rush, Giggs is also unable to lead the team to the final circle of the competition. It wasn't until the 2012 London Olympics, when Ryan RyanS took up a place for overage players to represent Wales and scored a goal, that he slightly compensated for his career regrets.
First, Gareth Bell
Two-time La Liga champion, four-time Champions League winner, two-time England PFA Footballer of the Year, Gareth Bale from the Southampton Academy first played as a left-back, later switched to playing as a winger, after moving to Tottenham Hotspur in 2007, he really went to the list of first-tier stars, and after the transfer of Real Madrid in 2013, he joined hands with Benzema and Ronaldo to form the BBC combination of Weizhen Champions League, and his personal reputation also reached its peak in Real Madrid.
As a winger, Bell is known for his high-speed breakthrough ability, leaving a lot of exaggerated forced overtaking scenes, but also a good free kicker, in his heyday, Bale, or just healthy Bale, has been countless first-class defenders afraid to face the nightmare. At the peak of the 15/16 season, Bale could deliver a fantastic stat of 20 goals and 10 assists in 31 appearances in the league and the Champions League.
In the history of modern football, wales have only appeared in the finals of three international competitions (the 1958 World Cup, euro 2016, and Euro 2020, which was postponed to this year. It can be said that the journey of the last two international competition finals in Wales and the results of reaching the final four and sixteen were based on the leadership of the core Bale. As the most iconic figure in Wales football in the past decade, Bale has scored 33 goals in a total of 95 appearances for Wales, and is currently the top scorer of the national team and the first star of Wales.