England

[123everton]

Who was the first non-white player to play for England at football?

[kawakiri]

Frank Wong Soo

[Drisgirl]

John Barnes?

[kawakiri]

Viv Anderson first black player to represent England

[Drisgirl]

Thats the name which escaped me Viv Anderson.

[123everton]

Right first time Kawakiri, thought that one might've lasted longer.
Who was he playing for when he gained them?

[redman41]

Notts Forest

[123everton]

No

[kawakiri]

Stoke City?

[redman41]

According to Wikipaedia he was playing for Forest when he gained his first England Caps.

[123everton]

I seem to think it was Everton.

[kawakiri]

From "The Stoke City miscellany" by David Clayton:
On 3 February 1945 Stoke City's Frank Wong Soo was the first player of Chinese extraction to play for England

[123everton]

The great miscellany mystery, we'll get Steve5 to conduct a stewards inquiry,
I've got the Everton miscellany.

[Sqad]

Bit of useless information, but I say Frank Soo play for Shrewsbury Town against Peterborough United in 1949.

He played right half and was bloody good.

[123everton]

He played for Everton, Chelsea, Millwall, Brentford and Reading, he made his first appearance against Wales 09/05/1942. that's from Wiki too.

[kawakiri]

Guested for Everton Media URL: http://www.whydelilah.co.uk/squad/midfielder/frank-soo.html
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[123everton]

Still played though, guested is a little like a loan I suppose, all his caps came during or immediately after the war whilst the main league programme was suspended.

[kawakiri]

All reports indicate he was a bit of a star.