What does cap mean and how do you earn one?

Answer 1

A cap is the amount of games (or appearances) a player has made for a certain team.

Answer 2

When a player is selected to play for the national team there are said the have earned a "cap." It comes from the time when they use to give the player an actual cap for making the team. When a particularly old player died they went to his house to clean up and the opened a closet and hundreds of caps just fell out of the closet.

Answer 3

It could mean many things, but from the context of your other questions, I believe you're talking about a salary cap.

This is a maximum amount a professional sportsman can earn in a year in salary for playing the sport. The cap is typically set by the league the player is in, but can occasionally be instituted by teams to send a signal to the players for bargaining.

Answer 4

In soccer caps are the number of times a player has represented his country (Not his Club) in internacional friendlies or competitions.
The record holder is the Saudi-Arabian goalie Al-Daeyea with181, Claudio Soares from Mexico with 178, and Hossam Hassan from Egypt with 170.
The fourth place is the American Cobi Jones.
The US has the more players with 100 or more caps than any other country. The list counts on Cobi Jones, Jeff Agoos, Tony Meola, Marcelo Balboa, Joe-Max Moore, Eric Wynalda, Claudio Reyna, Paul Caligiuri and...?

Answer 5

Cap means the number of games a player had played for his country or club.For example,David Beckham has 94 caps for England,which means he had played 94 times for England.

Answer 6

I think i know wut u mean a cap u can earn wen u play a game with a team it means u have played 1 game or 1 cap