Obviously England, Scotland, Wales etc. issue each player with an actual embroided cap, but does this stretch to other nations as well, or is it just the name used? Do Brazil, Lichtenstein, Ivory Coast etc. bother with them?|||Yep, they do|||As far as i know they stopped giving out individual caps some time
ago for english, scottish etc, Iam sure they just receive one cap
depicting the number of games played after they retire now. |||Today it might seem an unusual and perhaps even a bizarre practice to present a player with an actual cap but in the early days of football the concept of each team wearing a set of matching shirts had not been universally adopted, with the result that a team's players would often take the field in a variety of different coloured shirts, and each side would distinguish itself from the other by wearing a specific sort of cap or other headgear. An early illustration of the first international football match between England and Scotland in 1872 shows the Scottish players wearing cowls and the English wearing a variety of school caps.
Actual caps are not usually given any more (caps for friendly matches still exist, and each player gets one cap per international competition), but the term "cap" for an international or other appearance has been retained.
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