Qwiss Think it's how Giroud ended up beating Henry's record too. There are so many pointless friendlies, Nations League, etc nowadays. WC qualifiers have been expanded too and tournaments have gotten bigger.
I was looking up Henrik Larsson recently and he barely made 100 appearances for the national team despite breaking through as a teenager and playing until he was 39. An average player in his early 30s might have racked up the same number of games on A level nowadays.
