ITT: Footballers that represented nations other than their nation of birth/upbringing
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cant fault him for scoring some facking goals for engerland instead of some concacaf shit
all the black european players :^)
but this guy just rode the dutch bench
What about when he scored some facking goals for Wales U19s?
Has any other player won WC while playing for a country he wasn't born in?
Poor Messi. Had he been in the 2010 squad with Spain he would have absolutely cemented his legacy as the GOAT.
In that very same squad they had Simone Perrotta who was born in England
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Podolski
Every Mgumbo on a European team.
Looks like the bad guy in The Princess Bride
Curacao is part of the kingdom so it doesn't matter if they were born in Curacao or The Netherlands. All people in these nations can represent The Netherlands.
When are we going to get the Channel Islands national team that we all want?
Literally only Muslims want to play for Bosnia. A third of Croatian athletes come from Bosnia. I'm pretty sure every Croat we have in top 100 tennis was born in Bosnia.
Our double agent Gabriel Arias from Argentina
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I always seethe with Costa
Look at him, he's not spanish fuck off
dzeko is white as fuck though
it came home in the end lads
No fuck that traitor
His injuries were divine retribution
At least his brother was based
Americans...
He's also a Muslim, look at Besic, he seems white yet his name is Muhammed
There's only space in the Canadian side for true Canadians, like Tomasz Radzinski
Liedson, Deco, Pepe
>Liedson
now that was a proper meme
We more than that, like Diego Souza. Or shit like Makukula
This
At least Mahrez know where he belongs
I miss this lil nigga like you wouldnt believe
Umtiti and Mandanda...
Are Pjanic and Dzeko Muslim?
Based retard
Bosnia isn’t a real country
>letting Mexicans in the USMNT
BUILD THE WALL
Umtiti was born in Cameroon.
Mandanda was born in Congo.
Luis Monti, Raimundo Orsi and Enrique Guaita were born in Argentina but won the WC with Italy in 34. Monti actually lost the 1930 final playing for Argentina. Guaita won the WC and then went back to Argentina and won the 1937 Copa America.
Yes it is
BiH is a meme though
In 2011 this Brazilian passed a his Dutch citizen test and he is eligible to play for our national team despite being born in Brazil, no ties to The Netherlands apart from having played at FC Twente. I remember this because people were seething at the time that it was hard for foreigners to get a citizenship and this guy gets a free pass because he knows how to kick a ball.
That Brazilian that played for Spain
Senna didnt win the WC
DiStefano is a great example of this. So is Puskas.
he looks abo desu
Barack Obama
How old is he in this pic? 16?
The GOATest of GOATS
Just imagine if Higuain had played in 2018 final instead of playing in the 2014 one
the italians in 34 and 38 had a bunch of argies and uruguayans
2014
Klose and Podolski (Poland)
Özil (son of Turkish)
Khedira (son of Tunisians)
J. Boateng (son of Ghanaians)
Mustafi (son of Albanians)
trezeguet
also based john barnes
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Is he an Arab?
Pic rel
Özil, Boateng, Khedira and Mustafi were all born here.
Khedira is half tunisian,half german.
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based
yes. bosnian muslims are pretty huwhite
Tbf about half of Scottish (and Welsh) footballers are from England
lots of argies
/hilo
Rakitic made a final
So is this a neck thread then? How do you get your neck to blend like that? I've been taking the pill for 2 years now, twice weekly, and my neck is muscular af BUT the actual circumference remains 16". My neck looks abnormally sinewy yet those guys with big neck don't have those popping sinews.
Half of the recent French squad
JOrginho and Emerson
What a deal
I thought Gattuso was born in Scotland and Vieri in Australia?
Vieri's family moved to Australia and he grew up here but he was born in Italy.
Only two of them were born abroad IIRC
wtf i never fucking noticed he was french ever
>Place of birth: Singapore
What is the rule for this again? You need to be 50% and like a 1st or 2nd generation, right?
Citizenship is enough I believe cuz this dude didnt come to Poland until adulthood and he sure as shit isn't Polish.
I wonder how it works for players in ex-yu. We have so many athletes from Bosnia and I'm pretty sure that in theory anyone born in Bosnia can play for Croatia. There might be a special ruling. I have no idea. Someone redpill me on this.
One grandparent, or a special exception made by FIFA, which usually involves naturalised players who've lived there half their lives.
For a current example, Kemal Ademi could represent four different national teams, Albania and Kosovo through heritage, Switzerland through naturalisation and Germany through birth.
For a particularly ridiculous example, Sandy Walsh is eligible to represent 6 different national teams
I think it depends on what it was when they were born
ZA DOM
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kek
Truly blessed
The player, at least one of the player's parents, or at least one of the player's grandparents have to have been born in the territory of the country they want to represent. Alternatively, they have to have gained citizenship and lived continuously in the territory for 5 years after the age of 18. Exceptions tend to be made for players who grew up in a country after being born elsewhere, even if their parents were likewise born elsewhere. Furthermore, there is a separate agreement in the UK that players have to have had 5 years of education before the age of 18 in the relevant territory to be eligible for that nation, so a player born in Scotland could represent England if they spent 5 years in education in England. This means the naturalisation rule doesn't currently apply to the UK. Additionally, Northern Irish-born players are automatically also eligible for the Republic of Ireland.
yes, loads
vieira, thuram, desailly, podolski, klose, perotta, umtiti, mandanda
senna is our nigga tho literally everyone here liked him
Wasn't he born in France and then moved to Argentina as a child
Thiago Alcântara, the Brazilian Judas
Tony Cascarino literally faked Irish heritage to play for RoI.
>players used to play like this
>in the 80s/90s(aids epidemic)
>in a sport where a good amount of players are homosexual.
yikes
You do know that muslims aren't a race?
They're slavs (serbs, croats) whose ancestors converted and now created the non-existant ethnicity "bosniak".
Because they're ethnic Croats, retard. You can get our citizenship based on blood, parents' nationality. B&H is a country of three (two) ethnicities; "bosniaks", serbs, croats. Serbs and Croats (mostly) don't want to play under the B&H flag.
That's why I wrote "son of", they born in Germany but parents were ausländer.
half of the swiss team wasn't born here
Touche
Half of our national team.
Based aussies shitposting irl
We love dudu, he grew up here, played for dinamo and then the nt, scored to arsenal in a away match
Shame about the injury, he could have been way better