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From my files, these are the relevant players (note that I do not have places of birth for everybody who's ever played for us). An * after the name means a player in on loan.

G: Davies (Australia), Hansen* (Denmark), Henderson (Australia), Jansson* (Sweden), Jones (Australia), Myhill * (USA), Paston (New Zealand), Petterson* (Australia), Raeder (Germany), Ricketts (Jamaica), Roberts (Australia), Sattelmaier (Germany), Schwarzer (Australia), Vaesen* (Belgium), Zabica (Australia)

RB: Halle (Norway), Petrescu (Romania), Podd (St. Kitts), Uhlenbeek (Surinam)

CH: Barr (Australia), Blake (Jamaica), Cooke (Dominica), de Oliveira (Portugal), Good* (Australia), Isherwood (Sweden), McGowan (Australia), Molenaar (Netherlands), Routis (France), Sas (Netherlands), Seip (Netherlands), Stewart* (Jamaica)

LB: Meredith (Australia), Youga (Central African Republic)

M/W: Barrau (France), Daley (Jamaica), de Vita (Italy), Dieng (France), Edds (Australia), Eisa (Sudan), Furman* (South Africa), Ismail (Albania), Johnson* (Jamaica), Jorgensen (Faroe Islands), Kulcsar (Hungary), Marshall (Jamaica), Morais (Portugal), Nix (Australia), Pehrsson* (Sweden), Petta (Netherlands), Pinto (Portugal), Reid (PJ) (Australia), Seedorf* (Netherlands), Sepp (Netherlands), Songo'o (Cameroon), Verveer (Surinam), Vincelot (France)

F: Adebola* (Nigeria), Ashikodi* (Nigeria), Bookman (Lithuania), Bruenker (Germany), Cadete (Mozambique), Carbone (Italy), Chilaka (Nigeria), Edinho (Brazil), Grodowski (Germany), Juanjo (Spain), Manners (Barbados), Ndumbu Nsungu (Congo), Rabiega (Germany), Regtop (Netherlands), Rodriguez (France), Steiner (Sweden), Stephenson (Jamaica), Sundgot (Norway), ten Heuvel (Netherlands), Topp (Chile), Vanhala (Finland), Vukcic (Slovenia), Wells (Bermuda), Zoko (Ivory Coast)

Edited to add Eisa and Songo'o, now that they've appeared for us.

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Red rag to a bull, questions like that! But you've diverted me from parish books and other early records, for which I am grateful -- those early ministers and assistants meant well with the records, but their handwriting tends to veer from bad to illegible! My head hurts...

Here we go then -- what I have as City's capped foreigners. The numbers are for full internationals, unless something else has been added, e.g. U21, Youth, etc., and they may not be completely up-to-date.

I missed Curtis Good in my OP; he's been added here.

City's Capped foreigners:

G: Hansen* (Denmark (U21: 1)), Jansson* (Sweden (U21: 2)), Jones (Australia: 6), Myhill * (USA (Wales: 20)), Paston (New Zealand: 36), Petterson* (Australia (Youth)), Ricketts (Jamaica: 100), Roberts (Australia: 1), Schwarzer (Australia: 109), Zabica (Australia: 28)

RB: Halle (Norway: 64), Petrescu (Romania: 95), Podd (St. Kitts: ?)

CH: Good* (Australia: 2), McGowan (Australia: 21), Stewart* (Jamaica: 57)

LB: Meredith (Australia: 2), Youga (Central African Republic: 6)

M/W: Daley (Jamaica: 72), Edds (Australia (U23: 2)), Furman* (South Africa: 25), Ismail (Albania (England: Youth)), Johnson* (Jamaica: 74), Jorgensen (Faroe Islands: 10), Kulcsar (Hungary (Australia: 3)), Morais (Portugal (U21: 2)), Nix (Australia (England: Youth, Semi-Pro)), Reid (PJ) (Australia: 2), Songo'o (Cameroon (U20: 3))

F: Ashikodi* (Nigeria (England: Youth)), Bookman (Lithuania (Ireland: 4)), Cadete (Mozambique (Portugal: 33)), Carbone (Italy (U21: 8)), Ndumbu Nsungu (Congo (U21)), Steiner (Sweden: 3), Sundgot (Norway: 1), Vanhala (Finland: 23), Vuckic (Slovenia: 1), Wells (Bermuda: 19), Zoko (Ivory Coast (U20, U23))

Edited to add Podd to the list as well.
Edited to add Songo'o. He also appeared for France (U16).

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And for a side (using only full internationals), how about:

G: Schwarzer
RB: Halle (think I'll still prefer him)
CH: Good, Stewart
LB: Meredith
M/W: Daley, Furman, Jorgensen, Johnson
F: Wells, Steiner

Subs: Ricketts; Petrescu, Youga, Reid, Kulcsar, Sundgot, Vuckic

Keeper and fullbacks no worries, pace to burn on the wings, and one natural scorer at least. Could do worse...

Edit: as per my later post, let's follow the sources and take Podd as a full international, put him into the starting XI, move Halle to the subs bench, and Petrescu to the squad.

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See my posts #39 and #40 on the previous page

Bruno and Lawrence were born in England, so in the context of this thread -- foreign-born foreign players -- I left them out. And I was in two minds about Irish players, but in the end decided to omit them as well.

Podd I wasn't sure about -- I expected he'd played internationally for St. Kitts, but so far I've not found a mention of the number of caps: Hugman doesn't give details, as he does for most other internationals, Rothman's hasn't helped, at least in the volumes I have, and the ever-reliable Wikipedia just says he played internationally for St. Kitts!

But yes, as one of our undisputed legends, let's put him in, move Halle to the subs, and Petrescu to the squad. Ces managed the St. Kitts national side for a few years, so that gets him in anyways -- he can be joint interim permanent manager with Pehrsson!

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Now there's a project...

I'll propose Louis Bookman for the list. Since my "capped foreigners" post, I've found that he, despite being born in Lithuania, won 4 caps for Ireland, one (in 1914) when he was playing for us, and then three more in 1921.

I've edited that post accordingly.

There's been a few cases like that: e.g. the Hungarian Kulcsar appearing for the Aussies, the Aussie Nix for the lower levels of England, along with English-born players appearing internationally for other nations.

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Just the one, I think, for a second booking in Todd's last match in charge.

Zoko is another who was adequate elsewhere, but didn't do it for us.

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