[lfc-news] CROUCH: CLUB NOT COUNTRY IS MY TOP PRIORITY

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CROUCH: CLUB NOT COUNTRY IS MY TOP PRIORITY
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N149985050915-0929.htm
Mark Platt 15 September 2005
After another impressive performance for the Reds on Tuesday night Peter
Crouch has responded to renewed talk about his international credentials by
admitting the World Cup is not his number one priority.
Calls for the Liverpool striker to be recalled to the England fold have
increased following the 2-1 Champions League win in Spain but Crouch
insists his main focus is on his club form.

He says: "I'll have my own targets but I'll keep them to myself. I
obviously want to establish myself as playing regularly at a great club
like this. And maybe other ambitions will fall into place then.

"I'm not going to lie and say the finals are not something I've thought
about and the result in Northern Ireland the other night might help my
chances of getting to the World Cup this summer, but it's not my top priority.

"You don't get international recognition without doing the job at club
level so, if I do make it back into the England set-up, I'll have to have
done the business here at Liverpool."

Crouch won his one and only England cap against Columbia in the summer and
he adds: "I think the manager (Eriksson) has said he wants a bigger man up
front, there's a void to be filled there and I think I did reasonably well
out in America. I think if you're playing well at a club like Liverpool
you'll get a chance.

"The manager seemed to be positive in America, but obviously the club form
is the key. I'd like to think I'd be the player that comes through over the
next season. Obviously there are a lot of good strikers in the England side
and I'd like to get in among them. Mr Eriksson was complimentary while I
was away and so if all goes well hope-fully I'll be okay."

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