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title: "The last Aston Villa player to feature for England in an international tournament"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Crippy Cooke"
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published: "2021-06-01T21:39:29Z"
modified: "2021-06-01T21:39:30Z"
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# The last Aston Villa player to feature for England in an international tournament

Aston Villa have two players in the [England team](https://www.englandfootball.com/Articles/2021/Jun/01/20210601-england-squad-named-for-uefa-euro-2020) ahead of this summer’s European Championships – Tyrone Mings and Jack Grealish. Ollie Watkins was nearly the third representative after making the provisional 33-man squad, but he was cut when the squad was trimmed to 26 players.

Not only is it rare that a Villa player makes the England squad for an international tournament, it’s been a while since a Villa player actually featured, so *Read Aston Villa* looked into the last time a Villan made an appearance in the World Cup or Euros.

James Milner and Emile Heskey were playing for the Midlands outfit when they were named in the [England squad](https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/southafrica2010/teams/team/43942/) ahead of the 2010 World Cup and both featured in England’s opening group game against the USMNT.

The Three Lions infamously [drew 1-1](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/spielbericht/index/spielbericht/986783) in front of more than 38,000 supporters at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium. Milner made [three appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/james-milner/nationalmannschaft/spieler/3333/verein_id/3299) in the tournament and [joined](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/james-milner/transfers/spieler/3333) Man City after the Euros while Heskey made [four appearances](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/emile-heskey/nationalmannschaft/spieler/3142/verein_id/3299) and [stayed](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/emile-heskey/transfers/spieler/3142) at Villa until 2012.

Mings is likely to be cover in defence for Harry Maguire and John Stones, but Grealish has a good chance of playing for England in the Euros, so he might end the 11-year wait.

***[In other news, it’s been nearly 10 years since Gerard Houllier stepped down from Aston Villa](https://readastonvilla.com/2021/05/31/nearly-10-years-since-gerard-houllier-stepped-down-from-aston-villa/)***