The British Players That Reached Champions League Finals with Foreign Teams

When people generally think of Brits abroad, they either picture drunk Liverpudlians vomiting on strippers somewhere in Spain or David Beckham bringing British glamour and good looks to places like Los Angeles, Miami, Madrid, Milan or indeed the best stopover to buy some spices in the world. The old adage that British players don’t play abroad still stands true to this day, even in this hyperglobalist stage of world football, where players rarely stick around a single club or their home country for too long.

The advent of the top 5 leagues has meant that Western Europe has concentrated footballing talent from around the world and stories like Celtic, Steaua Bucharest and Red Star Belgrade winning the European Cup with completely homegrown squads have become a thing of the past. Similarly, national teams are now equally cosmopolitan in terms of where the players play their club football, with Brazil being the best example.

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Speaking of Brazil, they are the ultimate footballing exporters and you can find Brazilian players on every continent except Antarctica and you can be damn sure that as soon as we can melt those pesky icecaps and we can get some pitches going there, 34-year-old Gabriel Santos is going to have one last hurrah at Halley Research Station FC.