Wayne Bridge scored once in 36 appearances during his seven-year stay with the England senior national team. The left-back played for both the England u-18s and u-21s before he was given a call-up to the senior team by Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson. Virtually all his managers in the England youth team setup predicted that Wayne Bridge will play for the senior team and that prediction came to pass when he was given an invitation to the senior team and the defender made his first full cap against the Netherlands on February 13, 2002. Wayne Bridge proved himself quickly as a reliable left-back and he went on to make two appearances at the 2002 FIFA World Cup tournament in Japan and South Korea. All his appearances at the World Cup in Korea and Japan came as a substitute.
Wayne Bridge also made the 23-man squad for England to the Euro 2004 tournament in Portugal, but he didn’t play at all throughout the tournament as Ashley Cole was the preferred choice at left-back. Wayne Bridge was also used as a left midfielder to solve the problematic position only for him to lose the position to Chelsea teammate Joe Cole due to an injury.
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Wayne Bridge along with Frank Lampard won the Premier League in the year 2005. He was desperate to get the appointment for the job. He is of the belief that Roman Abramovich has finished up with Lamps because he knows that bigger names will refuse to join and the reason for that is the transfer ban.
He is known to have featured in the early success of Chelsea in the era of Roman Abramovich. He has played along with some of the greatest players in the history of the Blues. It doesn’t come as a surprise that Chelsea will dominate the perfect 5 sides of the former left-back. Wayne Bridge chose Matt Le Tissier, the legend of Southampton and as the manager, Glenn after he worked with the former midfielder of Chelsea in the south coast. However, the rest of the 5 side team comprises of teammates from the time he used to play at Chelsea. It includes Frank Lampard, Marcel Desailly, Didier Drogba, and Petr Cech.
Wayne and Frankie Bridge confess that they would love to have more children when they opened up about their family life at a recent interview. Frankie, the Saturday star, aged 29 and the former footballer at 38 years of age, admitted that they think about it but is not always in sync with the idea. Wayne says that he is open to having another baby but it would not happen so soon. It is not easy and that is also what Frankie agrees. She is not open to the idea of motherhood and that is why she needs time to think about having another baby.
When you ask a footballer about his most memorable moment as a player, you would expect him to say something about winning a major title or scoring a cracking goal. However, Wayne Bridge seems to be the odd one out.