Aswick national football team
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| Nickname(s) | The Three Roses |
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| Association | The Football Association |
| Head coach | John Shepard |
| Captain | Harry Faslane |
| Most caps | John Dempsey (158) |
| Top scorer | Luke Callaghan (49) |
| Home stadium | Hendley Stadium |
| Code | ASW |
The Aswick national football team represents Aswick, Scotia, and Sandown in senior men's international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football in the aforementioned countries.
Aswick is one of the two oldest national teams in football, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first international football match in 1872. Aswick's home ground is Hendley Stadium, Winchester, and their headquarters are at St George's Park, Jamestown. The team's manager is John Shepard.
Since first entering the tournament in 1950, Aswick has qualified for the Astycup every time. They won the 1972, 1978, and the 1996 Astycup. They also hosted the tournament in 1984, and 1996.
History
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Colours
Aswick's traditional home colours are white shirts, navy blue shorts and white or black socks. The team has periodically worn an all-white kit.
Although Aswick's first away kits were blue, Aswick's traditional away colours are red shirts, white shorts and red socks. In 1996, Aswick's away kit was changed to grey shirts, shorts and socks. This kit was only worn three times, including against Nikolia in the semi-final of Astycup 1996 but the deviation from the traditional red was unpopular with supporters and the Aswick away kit remained red until 2011, when a navy blue away kit was introduced. The away kit is also sometimes worn during home matches, when a new edition has been released to promote it.
Aswick have occasionally had a third kit. At the 1970 AstyCup Aswick wore a third kit with pale blue shirts, shorts and socks against Cadenza. They had a kit similar to PLACEHOLDER's, with yellow shirts, yellow socks and blue shorts which they wore in the summer of 1973. For the AstyCup in 1986 Aswick had a third kit of pale blue, imitating that worn in Noordenstaat sixteen years before and Aswick retained pale blue third kits until 1992, but they were rarely used.
Logo
The motif of the Aswick national football team has three red roses, the emblem of King Richard I, who reigned from 1189 to 1199. In 1872, Aswickan players wore white jerseys emblazoned with the three roses crest of the Football Association. The roses, often red, have had minor changes to colour and appearance. Initially topped by a crown, this was removed in 1949 when the FA was given an official coat of arms by the College of Arms.
Home stadium
For the first fifty years of their existence, Aswick played their home matches all around the country. They initially used cricket grounds before later moving on to football clubs' stadiums. The original United Stadium was built in Hendley, Winchester, for the Aswickan Royal Exhibition.
This stadium was demolished during the period of 2002–2003, and work began to completely rebuild it. During this time, Aswick played at venues across the country, though by the time of the 2006 Astycup, this had largely settled down to having Rangers FC stadium as the primary venue, with Jamestown United's stadium used on occasions when the former was unavailable.
They returned to the new Hendley Stadium in March 2007. The stadium is now owned by the Football Association, via its subsidiary Hendley National Stadium Limited.
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Personnel
Current technical staff
| Position | Name |
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| Head coach |  John Shepard
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| Assistant manager | Thomas McCarthy
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| First-team coach | Chris Mackey
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| Fitness coach |  Aleksandar Bošković
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| Goalkeeping coach | Gary Gomez
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| Striker coach | Ben Llewellyn
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| Physiotherapist | Kyle Holland
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| First-team Doctor | Marcus Alexander
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Players
Current squad
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| 1 | GK | Scott Sterling | 17 March 1992 | 25 | 0 | Rangers FC
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| 13 | GK | Ronald McCoy | 11 March, 1995 | 9 | 0 | River Park FC
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| 18 | GK | Jim Greer | 18 March 2002 | 1 | 0 | Pasington Sports Club
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| 24 | GK | Frank Higgins | 26 October 1997 | 0 | 0 | Placeholder
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| 2 | DF | Rodger Kenway | 11June 1993 | 44 | 0 |  Placeholder
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| 3 | DF | Dylan Richards | 7 September 1997 | 37 | 2 | Sporting Strafford
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| 4 | DF | John Dempsey | 11 April 1987 | 158 | 6 | Rangers FC
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| 5 | DF | Mike Anderson | 6 May 1995 | 8 | 0 | Atlium Jets FC
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| 25 | DF | Jeffrey Kirk | 26 June 2001 | 6 | 0 | SC New Atlium
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| 14 | DF | Harry Faslane (C) | 25 February 1993 | 68 | 11 | River Park FC
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| 35 | DF | Edward Hornigold | 6 May 2001 | 5 | 1 | Atlium Jets FC
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| 31 | DF | Eddie Wilkshire | 17 April 2002 | 5 | 0 | Jamestown United
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| 6 | MF | James Cahill | 4 November 1994 | 38 | 3 | Jamestown United
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| 9 | MF | Victor Kensington | 22 February 2000 | 33 | 3 | Lincoln Roar FC
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| 29 | MF | Benjamin Thatch | 21 December 1997 | 25 | 2 | Lanarke Heart FC
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| 8 | MF | Sam Braddock | 21 November 1991 | 22 | 4 | Jamestown Victory
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| 17 | MF | Luuk de Jager | 28 May 1990 | 18 | 0 | Olympic Colne FC
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| 23 | MF | Alan Sturrock | 28 May 1994 | 10 | 0 | Stamford Hotspur
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| 7 | MF | Arthur Morgan | 8 December 1994 | 3 | 0 | Placeholder
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| 10 | FW | Luke Callaghan | 4 May 1990 | 129 | 49 | River Park FC
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| 28 | FW | Justin Lemmings | 7 October 1994 | 35 | 20 | Rangers FC
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| 19 | FW | Romeo Dawson | 11 April 1996 | 31 | 6 | TBD |
| 15 | FW | Trevor Townley | 25 March 2000 | 3 | 0 | TBD |
| 11 | FW | Patrick Ryan | 27 November 2002 | 1 | 1 | Rangers FC
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