English players Dual Nationality thread

Mbappé was born in Paris.[2] His father Wilfried hails from Cameroon and, as well as being his agent, is a football coach, while his Algerian mother Fayza is a former handball player.

 

For what it's worth, Owen Otasowie has quickly become a regular for the USA U18s. 190 centimeter, 83 kg central midfielder who also plays center back. Born in 2001 but recently got his first start for Wolves U23 in Premier League 2. Also rumored interest from bigger clubs, as well as the offer of a pro deal from Wolves:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/5369911/wolves-owen-otasowie-everton-juventus-ajax-schalke/
https://www.instagram.com/otasowie88/

England won't miss him given their stunning depth, but he looks to be valuable for the US.

 

American Soccer Now reports that Arsenal U18 forward Folarin Balogun was born in the USA, raised in England, is of Nigerian heritage, and may join up with the US youth setup soon.

 

Getting to be very amusing that the septics want all these players who have been brought up in the English system.

Especially as certain types have spent years slagging off the English system.

On the bright side, the USA fans now get to found out how annoying Nigerian fans and media are with dual national players. About as bad as Ghana.

 

Balogun, like Otasowie, is born in 2001. He's the leading scorer for Arsenal U18 and also has a handful of appearances for the U23s including one start. Appears the US Soccer federation discovered Balogun's eligibility when Arsenal were recently on US soil for the Dallas Cup, similar to how they did for Carter-Vickers in 2014 when Tottenham's academy side beat the US U17s in Florida.

 

Just out of interest do you have a link for this? I can't seem to find anything on it.

 

A prospect to keep an eye on? I am hearing the leading scorer for Arsenal's U-18 team (9 G, 3A, in 14 games), Folarin Balogun, was born in in the United States, raised in England, and holds Nigerian citizenship. I believe he's eligible for all 3 NT's.

— Brian Sciaretta (@BrianSciaretta) April 4, 2018

Sciaretta is almost always a reliable inside source (and a longtime BigSoccer poster himself).

 

Sciaretta reports Balogun was born in New York City, just like Owen Otasowie. He just scored the equalizer for Arsenal U23 today vs. Liverpool. Sciaretta says he's optimistic Balogun will enter the US YNT setup. The 2001-born class for the US is rather light on center-forwards, so I'd expect at least an attempted callup for Balogun soon, whether or not it is accepted depending on if he wants to hold out for England.

 

03-Jamal Musiala and Bright Arrey-Mbi are in the German U15 team that will face the Netherlands in a double friendly in early May.
https://www.dfb.de/u-15-junioren/team-und-trainer/?no_cache=1

 

Yeah, saw this on our U15 thread. Just out of interest do you know what the connection is with your Country? Born there maybe?

 

the 1st call up was a camp, now its for actual games.

from what I've seen majority of the German Brits seem to have at the min 1 German parents. Guys like the Nmecha brothers, Bennetts, Glatzel etc But not 100% sure about these 2.

what I read about Jamal Musiala is that he left Germany at the age of 7. Grew up in Fulda, Germany before moving to Chelsea. Couldn't find any info on whether he was born in Germany. Although decent chance he was. Comes from a mix parentage too.

Bright Arrey-Mbi on the other hand, I have no idea. Can barely find anything about him. Although he's confirmed to have German nationality.

these 2 are also highly likely to be triple nationals, just like the Nmecha brothers and Bennetts are.

 

His mother is apparently from Stuttgart, which probably means that he was born in Germany too. I don't think he was born in Fulda though, as some articles claim: this one seems to have been based on conversations with his family and people who knew him, and it says that he lived in Fulda roughly between the ages of 2 and 8.

 

Ok, interesting stuff, thanks for the info

 

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Arsenal's Folarin Balogun, born in New York and raised in England, is on the latest England squad for the 2018 U17 Euros. Very good news for England, as they can provisionally cap-tie him in this competition if he plays. It's his first-ever England callup, and for a major continental youth tournament no less, so one wonders whether interest by the USA -- little doubt they attempted to call him up to their 2001-birth-year squad too -- was part of the equation for England. All the more power to England if so, after seeing many English-developed prospects go to other countries.

 

And there it is, Balogun enters the match vs. Israel and will be England's for at least quite a while. US will still certainly watch him with hopes he becomes the next Benik Afobe.

 

Callum Robinson (1993) got his first Irish call-up.

 

the new German-Americans.

 

They cap way too many players. All ends in them missing qualification ..
maybe they should go back to being in a permanent camp like the pre 94 era .

 

Refresh my memory. Robinson, Carter-Vickers and ??

 

Presumably Dom Dwyer.

 

Ah yes! Completely forgot about him.

 

dom dwyer

Played for them on residence rules . lol

 

TBF it is four years until the next major tournament for them. If England were in that situation I wouldn't want to see the same old failed cloggers getting a run out - people on here moan enough about players like Henderson getting games enough as it is without us being in that position.

This current squad is an odd one though - they've called up a few players who don't look like they'll go anywhere special in the game who are only there on the back of being 20-22 and playing in Europe while ignoring a few players in the 23-26 age range already playing at a decent level who should be the backbone of the team.