I pulled out of a few England squads – my situation was similar to Ben White at Arsenal
Gabby Agbonlahor has admitted that he pulled out of several England squads — before comparing his situation to Arsenal defender Ben White.
The Aston Villa icon earned three caps for the Three Lions between 2008 and 2009 with his last call-up the senior squad coming in 2011. The 37-year-old received high praise from ex-England skipper John Terry for his performance against Germany in a friendly but a consistent run in the team never came to fruition.
In an appearance on the Ben Heath Podcast on Tuesday (May 7), Agbonlahor opened up about his time with England and admitted that he was somewhat unlucky to play at a time when the country was blessed with several stellar strikers.
«In that era I played in, you had so many good strikers, we're talking about [Wayne] Rooney, Michael Owen into the last bit of his career, [Emile] Heskey was a player that did very well for England and Capello really liked playing Emile and he did fantastic,» he said.
«You had [Peter] Crouchy, [Jermain] Defoe, and Darren Bent who was scoring goals and [Carlton] Cole doing well.» Having spent his entire professional career with Villa, Agbonlahor admitted he'd pull out of England squads if he was nursing an injury that could affect him at club level.
«I didn't enjoy going away with England, say if I had a calf injury where maybe it wasn't super bad but it was something that could affect you for the next [Aston] Villa game,» he remarked.
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«I would pull out of England squads because I think I was into 13 to 16 England squads but I pulled out of quite a few because I was more thinking 'am I gonna
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