England's U-21s. Because he doesn't yet have US citizenship, he is officially cap-tied to England, now.
Hard to interpret your question. That "just" can make it go several ways. He played for the English U21s in Euro U21 qualifying. That's an official competition. Any player who plays in an official competitive youth match is immediately limited from filing a one-time switch to any country that he did not hold citizenship in at the time of that competitive youth cap. Jack's not a US citizen, so he can never switch to the US under current rules. This is exactly the same situation as Diego Fagundez finds himself in.
Seems the Harrison report started with Kristian Dyer: https://www.msgnetworks.com/videos/felipe-wants-to-play-for-the-usmnt/ A couple of sources were repeating this and then deleted when they figured out it was incorrect. Ives even thinks Harrison wasn't aware of the implication of the matches, but he's likely to move to England before becoming a US citizen anyway.
They should make the rules more difficult for someone to change. It kind of devalues the sport at a National level when you have "x" person play for a NT only because he would have never had a chance to play for his home country.
Hockey has a rule that says you have to play two years in the country you play for. I think FIFA should have something similar. Although I wouldn't be surprised if they loosened the rules since a large number of FIFA members benefit for France and German leftovers.
Well, if nothing else, they are having to issue way too many waivers to players who came to a country as kids. That's a sign you need to fix your rules. But if you want to see abuse, take a look at the men's handball team for Qatar... http://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/la-sp-oly-qatar-handball-20160816-snap-story.html
2 years is nothing. It will soon become a World Cup of the best players, just representing another country they were never born in. Sort of like the world cup of clubs. Can't really take pride in something like that. And a lot of nations have used Naturalized players and more are joining.
A year isn't that unusual for a Green Card process to run. I don't think there was anything in his background that would qualify him for the EB-1 Green Card (the "exceptional ability" category-- call this the "David Beckham" exception).
My point was that he satisfied the residency requirements pretty quickly. I would say anyone who can play professional soccer has exceptional ability but I could be biased
There are no residency requirements to get a Green Card (not in the same way there is for citizenship). You have to maintain residency to keep the Green Card.
950741271513128960 is not a valid tweet id Blessing related. http://ghanasoccernet.com/los-angeles-forward-latif-blessing-ready-to-switch-nationality-to-usa Not sure what his time frame is.
5 years from the time he received his Green Card or 3 years if he marries a US citizen. He's a long way off, so I'm guessing things will change a lot before he's anywhere close to being eligible.
Blessing received his green card on 28 Nov 17. So if he got married the earliest is Nov 20 if not Nov 22 too late for the WC.
What I've found is that the players themselves often don't have a clear knowledge of the timelines involved in the citizenship process. There was very little reason for Latif to say "I am ready to switch nationality and play for USA." His eligibility is so far in the future that you never know what'll happen. I remember these cases like Andy Najar and Diego Fagundez. We spent an enormous time on these threads talking about Najar's timelines in particular as we wanted him to be eligible for an Olympic cycle. Not only did he not make those timelines prior to Honduras being interested, he NEVER became a US citizen as far as we know. DIego Fagundez is as American as apple pie. He has all of these pictures on his twitter feed of a recent bear hunting trip he went on. But the timelines didn't work for him to get citizenship. Uruguay called him up for one cap-tying tournament, got some token appearances, and that was that. Same thing just happened with Jack Harrison of course. So its a weird thing. If people want Latif in the US program, they have to hope he's good..................but not good enough to get called up by Ghana or get signed away from MLS. It does happen on occasion: See Kekuta Manneh.
Do we know for sure if he's eligible? Wasn't there some confusion about FIFA's live here 5 years after you turn 18 rule
Well, they applied for a waiver back of the 5/18 rule in early 2017. No one ever reported back on the result, but he's 23 now and has lived the 5 years after turning 18 all in the US. He should be eligible to play for the US without restriction now.
any words on our current Gen Ad crop with Mo Adams, Francis Atuahene, Jaoa, Moutinho, Ema Twumasi, or Gordon Wild? Anyone else doing the leg work on that would appreciate it that might know a thing or two about any of those cases that we might not.
Gordon wild grew up in a traveling circus in Germany https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-circus-and-joined-the-maryland-soccer-team/