West Ham’s football stars making international European team (7)

I believe the answer is:

faeroes

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'international european team' is the definition.
(Faroe Islands national football team)

'west ham's football stars' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'football stars' could be 'fa' (Football Association abbreviation) and 'fa' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

'making' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for faeroes that I've seen is " UK shipping forecast area".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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