English players Dual Nationality thread

I don't think any of them three players chose Wales cause they thought they were guaranteed a 2018 World Cup spot.

 

They chose the easy life, it’s as simple as that! Today’s stories of “they’re Welsh players” and not defecting to us are because the Welsh are scared to death that England might dangle a carrot in front of them. I think England should play the other home nations at their game and play young and up coming talent.

 

They are, well I think they are.

 

That hasn't worked out well through the escence of time.

 

Malcolm Ebiowei (Arsenal) & Noah Ohio (Man City) called up to Dutch u15 squad. Ebiowei was in the England u15 camps.

Not really major but Tendayi Darikwa, Admiral Muskwe & Kundai Benyu were all in the Zimbabwe squad and committed their futures to them. Muskwe was in England youth squads before.

 

Brooks MOTM today for Wales. Not good enough to get in our under-21 squad ahead of Kasey Palmer though apparently even after his player of the tournament performances in Toulon

 

Is that effectively why he suddenly went back to Wales because he couldn't get into our U21 Squad?

 

Looks like it.

 

I wouldn't worry about Brooks honestly. Much more confident with Mount, Edwards, Nelson, and several more coming up not including the current U21s.

 

Maybe the Zimbabwe recent links I put up wasn't nothing. They on a recruitment drive and next up is Reiss Nelson.

https://www.thezimbabwedaily.com/ne...-still-pondering-on-playing-for-zimbabwe.html

Once again Ghana soccer all over Appiah.

http://ghanasoccernet.com/ghanaian-...land-u-17-come-from-two-down-to-beat-portugal

 

I would be amazed if they managed to persuade Nelson to play for them, not in the near future anyway.

 

That is for sure. Pretty much zero chance in the short to medium term.

 

They are keen on Tristan Nydam too and he often gets mentioned - in fairness he was born in Zimbabwe and lived there until he was 8 and his parents split up and he moved to Colchester.

 

Zimbabwe are in turmoil atm, football should be the last thing they are worrying about. I've heard very good things about Nelson but Arsenal always seem to think they've unearthed the next big thing.

 

On the subject of Wales, Chris Coleman now looks set to take over at Sunderland. To me they have a good chance of qualifying for Euro 2020 so that's a surprise.

 

I'm not necessarily surprised that he wants to go back to club management. I am pretty surprised that he's doing it at Sunderland. Perhaps he thinks they can't go any lower and he'll get credit for their regression to the mean.

 

http://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=25484

Does anyone know anything about Owen Otasowie?

 

I suspect that, like Gboly Ariyibi, Otasowie was born in the US to Nigerian parents but moved to England at a very early age. US Soccer Federation lists Otasowie's official hometown as Merryhill, Wolverhampton, not anywhere in the US, so he has been brought up in England.

 

Appears he was born in New York, according to info released today by US Soccer. Likely moved to England at an early age.

 

Could be interesting if any truth in this article https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/leon-bailey-country-england-belgium-jamaica-bayer.jsp

 

Given that he's also said his dream is to play in England, it does kind of point to us as Jamaica's main competition for his allegiance.

I have to say, I'd have mixed feelings about that, regardless of how good he is. We've done nothing for him, have we? He's never lived a day here. I know there are other countries that don't trouble themselves with silly little things like making any contribution whatsoever to producing their national team's players, but there have only ever been a small handful of England players who hadn't at least partly grown up here, and I'd kind of like to keep it that way. It's the way it should be.

 

Interesting. I wonder what the connection is to England as it wasn't particularly clear. Just said he has English ancestry but the article kind of indicates he can qualify for England in some way so guess he must have an Granny or Grandad born here?

Not sure Southgate would go for it anyway, maybe for the U21's initially but we know how Southgate is big on loyalty and rewarding in this regards so not sure I can see it happening. Not sure how I feel about it either tbh.

 

I wonder if he's even eligible for us. I doubt it. There's a lot of murkiness surrounding him and his adopted Dad.

 

Hard to see who else he'd be considering though, isn't it? He spent a couple of years in Austria, a couple in Slovakia, a couple in Belgium, and a couple in Germany, and now he's talking about moving here. I guess he might think he's eligible for England and be wrong, but it's heavily implied that he thinks we're his other option.

 

Well that's kinda my point, there's been a lot of crap to wade through from him and the people around him over the last three years or so. I highly doubt he's eligible for us anyway and so I just think it's a bit of a non-story. If he really was, it'd have come up before, especially with the way his 'father' has been desperate to get him some sort of European citizenship.