Rice, Costa, Zaha, Puskas: Which footballers have played for more than one country?

Inaki Williams is set to join a fascinating list of male footballers who have picked up caps for more than one national team.

The Athletic Bilbao forward joined Stephen Ambrosius, Ransford-Yeboah Konigsdorffer, Patric Pfeiffer and Brighton & Hove Albion’s Tariq Lamptey in declaring his allegiance to the Ghanaian national team ahead of the 2022 World Cup this week.

Williams had previously aligned himself with Spain having been born in Bilbao and played his entire professional career in the Basque Country, eventually picking up a cap for La Roja in March 2016.

According to the BBC, Williams said in a video posted to social media: “Today a new challenge begins. From now on, I will defend Ghana’s T-shirt with all my will whilst I give my best. I’m one of the Black Stars.”

The nation that anyone, never mind a footballer, most closely identifies with can be a deeply personal and poignant matter that can depend a lot on somebody’s upbringing, family history and much, much more.

As such, it should come as no surprise that Williams won’t be the first male professional footballer to have played for the senior teams of two different countries when he inevitably represents the Black Stars for the first time.

In fact, some of the greatest players in football history have seen their international caps spread across two nations, while there are also some more modern examples that will make Williams feel at home in his convictions.

So, in celebration of the 28-year-old taking a decision that’s so important to him in his own career and life, we’ve take it upon ourselves to comb through the record books and find other cases of male players who picked up caps for two, or more, countries.

We’re strictly talking about the senior teams of the