Who wore number 47 in football?

As squads around the world are bigger, and as players move more frequently, such higher numbers are being used more and more. Here are the few players who’ve used the number.

Phil Foden

Philip Walter Foden is an English professional footballer who is known as a midfielder for Premier League club Manchester City and the England national team.

Foden’s breakthrough into professional football came in 2017 when he won the FIFA U-17 World Cup Golden Ball award following England’s successful Under-17 World Cup campaign. He made his debut for City during the same year and in December was named BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.

Foden has since made over 100 appearances for the club, winning multiple honours including becoming one of the youngest recipients of a Premier League winners’ medal. In 2019, he won a second Premier League and became one of the club’s youngest goalscorers in the UEFA Champions League, and is one of the youngest English players to both start a match and score in the knockout stages of the competition. In 2021, he was named as the Premier League Young Player of the Season and the PFA Young Player of the Year.

Foden has represented England at many youth levels, scoring 19 goals in 51 youth caps. He was first called up to the senior team on 25 August 2020 and made his debut against Iceland on 5 September 2020, in a 1–0 victory in the UEFA Nations League.

Foden is left-footed, and can play as a wing-back, or a winger on the right, though Pep Guardiola has described him as “more of a midfielder”. In 2017, Guardiola described him as “a special player”, saying: “It’s dangerous to say good things about young players because they are still young, and they have to grow and they have to learn many, many things… But we have a lot of confidence to help him, because we believe he is a guy who has potential, even if he’s not strong, he’s not tall.” In 2017, Louise Taylor of The Guardian described Foden as “boasting tight, adhesive control and blessed with the knack of drifting past opponents”. In 2018, veteran football writer Brian Glanville described him as a “gifted and precocious teenager”, adding: “Young players of his skill and inventive quality are pitifully thin on the ground.”

Nathaniel Phillips

Nathaniel Harry Phillips is an English professional footballer who is known as a centre-back for Premier League club Liverpool.

Jack Clarke

Jack Raymond Clarke is an English professional footballer who is known as a winger for Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur. He can also play as a striker. He decided to represent England U20s at international level.

Clarke is a versatile forward, who can play as a winger on either side. He can also play as a striker. He is known for his pace and his dribbling skills, as well as his ability to run at opposition defenders and take them on.

Joscha Wosz

Joscha Wosz is a German footballer who is known as a midfielder for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig.

Andrea Consigli

Andrea Consigli is an Italian professional footballer who is known for playing for Sassuolo as a goalkeeper.

An experienced and reliable keeper, Consigli was considered to be a promising goalkeeper in his youth, and is known for his goalkeeping technique, quick reflexes, shot–stopping, and ability in one–on–one situations. He has also stood out for his penalty–stopping abilities throughout his career; with 19 stops in 364 appearances since 2009. His role model as a goalkeeper is Gianluigi Buffon. Considered to be one of the best goalkeepers in the Italian top–flight, and one of Sassuolo’s best players, in 2012, Padraig Whelan of forzaitalianfootball.com described Consigli as “perhaps the most underrated player in Serie A in any position,” and as a goalkeeper with “few weaknesses in his game.”

Milan Badelj

Milan Badelj is a Croatian professional footballer who is known as a midfielder for Serie A club Genoa and the Croatia national team. He is a member of the Croatian squad that finished runners-up in the 2018 FIFA World Cup.