Roy Hodgson confirms the end of John Terry's international career

John Terry

England boss Roy Hodgson has confirmed once and for all that former English defender John Terry‘s international career is over. Hodgson said he had no plans to persuade the defender to come out of international retirement, despite the Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho saying that Terry has been an outstanding defender in the league this season.

Although Terry’s return to form has been instrumental in helping Chelsea claim the top spot in the league as of now, but the English boss has decided he will be sticking with the players who helped England qualify for the 2014 show-piece.

He clarified that the Chelsea man will not be featuring in his plans for the summer tournament in Brazil.

“John has retired,” said Hodgson. “As far as I’m concerned that is the situation. We’ve got along without him for the whole of the qualification, and quite a few friendly matches, and we’ll have to get along without him in the future. As far as I’m concerned retirement is retirement.

“You respect that when players retire. We move on. We moved on after the first qualification game when John Terry limped off [against Moldova]. Since that time we have got on with it and have chosen the players who are available, who have represented us well in my opinion and so we’ll continue with that.”

This announcement effectively ends the defender’s International career, unless of course Terry comes out of retirement and declares that he will be available for selection, a thing which Terry came very close to doing post his retirement.

Terry had retired in protest of a disciplinary case filed against him by the Football Association, after he had been acquitted in court for the same case of racial abuse against QPR defender Anton Ferdinand. The defender was subsequently found guilty of misconduct by the independent commission of FA and was handed a four match ban.