Translating…
Lennart Karl has already played 3 times for the German national team so it doesn’t met the criteria of the article which apparently is about players who have not played for their NT.
Cap = playing for the national team. IIRC the term came about because teams used to exchange caps (hats) per game. You might see something like “Landon Donovan scored 57 goals in his 163 caps.”
Numbers made up.
Did you mean “until” ?!
(I think they should use VAR for all decisions, and allow teams n* appeals, like they do in tennis.)
*a small whole integer.
Ah, I see, I overlooked the “uncapped” qualifier.
England certainly used to award actual caps to players for each appearance. Not sure about other national sides. I assume that’s where it comes from. Or maybe it predates football, could be cricket?
Are soccer players even allowed to wear gear on their head? Or, they could, but never choose to do so?
I don’t know about field players, but keepers sometimes wear caps to ward off the sun.
Some wear headbands, see Ronaldinho:
or bandanas.
Edgar Davids used to wear protective glasses, he suffered from conjunctivitis:
And many wear protective gear after injuries, often after having had the chin, the nose, or the cheek broken. Some did so during this tournament, others long before.
There was a Spanish football player, I think it was in the `50s, who hid his baldness under a toupé. During a corner kick one rival tore the toupé down. He knocked him out with a single punch. Then turned around, knowing that a red card was inevitable, and went off the pitch without looking back. Unfortunately, I have forgotten his name and my Google Fu is not working today. But that was also some kind of gear on the head, as long as it stayed there.
Petr Cech started wearing a helmet after he fractured his skull on a goalpost.
I think it is glaucoma.
I believe it was Stephen Hunt’s knee.
(Sorry, in a picky mood!!)
Though I don’t remember whose, yes it was a knee, and a horrible scene.
Raul Jimenez (Mexico, Fulham) wears a customized headband because of a skull fracture, also.