Our creepy thread has another entrant! Born in the US........................ Welcome to the world our little boy!👶🏼 We are so happy.❤️ @AnaIvanovic pic.twitter.com/j5Kp6u0CiJ— Bastian Schweinsteiger (@BSchweinsteiger) March 19, 2018
Zlatan just said if he wasn’t married and didn’t have a family he would “spread his investment” across the USA to create legends of American players 😂 (h/t @dpshow)— Avi Creditor (@AviCreditor) April 19, 2018
Yup. It did seem muted at Man United at times, though. MLS really wants the "unleashed" Zlatan. Its perfect. Love him or hate him..............you have to watch.
He's not a baby anymore, but born in the US: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ls-scoring-two-excellent-goals-kickabout.html
Not an American at all in anything but the most technical sense of the word though, so should not play for the USA. People should represent countries for which they have genuine nationality, not just technical legal citizenship. This is why jus soli should be abolished, so the USA soccer team consists of genuine Americans, not technical citizens like (potentially) Sabanadzovic and this kid.
Um sure. Jus soli is also one of the things that makes America great so yeah....thanks? I mean there is no ethnicity tied to our nationality hence why its inclusive and really nothing "technical" about it. You are either an American or you are not.
But simply being born in a country doesn't really make someone "from" there if neither parent is from there and they don't live there for long. I wouldn't want Clint Dempsey's London-born son in the England squad, or Luca Bradley playing for Italy. In fact England fielding Dempsey junior would mean I wouldn't support my home country at all. (I needn't worry, since (a) we don't poach players from other federations (even Hargreaves always wanted to play for England), and (b) he isn't a UK citizen since Clint wasn't a permanent resident at the time...or would he qualify if Clint has an Irish passport through his Irish grandparent?)
Again that is what is great about being an American...its more an ethos. Ask Terrance Boyd if he feels American and he says yes. Ask Jonathan Gonzalez, he'd say yes he does feel American too but he thought playing for Mexico internationally would be better for him. Anyway, I am not mad about how we do citizenship and am not mad if any American citizen plays on our team.
What if he's not quite good enough for 4th-ranked Portugal and wants to play for the country of his birth and his mother?
Here's one we can potentially benefit from right now. Lucas' father is a former Dallas Sideckicks player from Brazil, Charles Ordonho. Lucas was thus born in Dallas. Reports out of Italy AC Milan will sign #usynt ‘01 striker Lucas Ordonho from Recife in Brazil. Milan reportedly beat out MLS and Portuguese sides pic.twitter.com/Wce2nvavD9— Joey (@USAprospects) June 15, 2018
Former Canadian NT player Kaylyn Kyle and Minnesota United player Harrison Heath just had a son: https://www.prosoccerusa.com/mls/mi...ayers-kaylyn-kyle-harrison-heath-welcome-son/ Not sure if Heath ever got his US citizenship (he said several years ago he was close), but I assume the baby was born in the US. At worse, he has 2 parents who have Green Cards and live mostly in the US.
Rodrigo Salinas of Toluca says his wife is American and his kids are as well. He said this in announcing (probably too late in his career) that he's interested in getting US citizenship and playing for the US. https://manchikoni.com/rodrigo-salinas-will-play-for-the-united-states/ "Many people do not know, but my wife is a gringa and my children are gringos and I'm looking for another way to get that illusion to return a shirt to a team "