Player Eligibility and Switching National Teams: Case Studies & General Discussion

you cant be serious with this




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The charitable interpretation would be that they speak castellano rather than español venezolano.

 

He even changed his name

 

Veloz is a spectacular name for a soccer player.

 

Height doesn`t make players to be good or bad.
Some of the best talented players in the world have been short in height.
There are lots of players in less than 1,69 (Messi's actual height), including among others, Garrincha, Raymond Kopa, Romario, Nobby Stiles, Paul Scholes, Gianfranco Zola, Vava, and probably the best of all, Diego Armando Maradona, whom was only 1,66.

 

no doubt about that, plus a lot easier to pronounce than Barmettler, at least in Spain

 

Veloz, is his mother's last name.

 

I have to say, if I were a pro athlete and my maternal last name was Veloz, I'd do the same.

 

Rugby union doesn't even need you to have citizenship to play for a country. You only need to meet a certain residency requirement.

 

Seferovic is enough, Hajrovic also would be suicide. I'm glad that he scored the goal and not Dzeko or Ibisevic.

 

I'll try to explain. First of all, I'm actually tired of the ''new generation''. We've a lot of potential, talented and good football players for the future but unfortunately players like Seferovic which came through the Swiss youth system decided to play for Switzerland. Well, it'll be the same if I decided to play for Denmark instead of Bosnia & Herzegovina. Nonetheless, I'm one of those who's really nationalist and I'm disappointed of players like Seferovic. Another example is Halilovic, another potential, talented and good football player for the future. I've a feeling about this is more than just playing for your ''country''. I don't believe Halilovic when he's saying in a interview ''No one love Bosnia & Herzegovina like me''. I don't believe Seferovic when he's saying that we didn't called him and that's why he decided to play for Switzerland. I've so many examples and what I actually said in my last post was that I'm really glad to see Hajrovic in our jersey. To be honest, I'd be really sad and disappointed to see Hajrovic with Seferovic, another way to say this is - I'd be disappointed to see another traitor.

 

Well look at it the other way around (if it helps your feelings on the issue).

Think how we in Chile feel for losing such a superb and splendid player as Ricardo Rodriguez in precisely the position, where we are most weak on, at the defense, only because our stubborn coach of the time, didn`t want to even make a phone call. In inteviews done to his brother (Francisco), whom will probably follow the same steps of his elder brother, he said that they (as family) were waiting to get the call from our FA, and since nothing happened, his brother finally decided to play for the Swiss NT.

We lost a big gem, with his loss for us, and your gain.

 

His mother is 100 % chilean, and still is. It was her womb, the one that gave him birth, so he was chilean from the moment of his conception, 9 months before he acquired the swiss nationality at the moment of birth. So he is first chilean, then swiss.

Unless you can prove that he and both of his brothers were adopted.


Now if you want to say that he is "somehow" a product of the Swiss system, then that is another issue and you may be "somehow" right, because if it wasn't due to his parents support (whom weren't swiss), from the begining, he wouldn't be the star player he now is, and for the case, he would simply be another simple chilean who lives in a foreign country. Lots of chileans live in Switzerland nowdays

 

For his relationship towards his father being spanish, I'll accept their word that he is, his father. We could practice DNA exams in order to verify it, , but no one can put in question that he was born out of the womb of his mother. Nevertheless, between Chile and Spain there is an agreement where both nations recognizes each other in terms of accepting that one of our citizens, could hold both nationalities at the same time, (diferent than the dual nationality). So for this issue, there is no problem of his father being spanish, and therefore they retain their chilean nationality or could even have them both.

About your friend, francly I don`t have a clue, about how his nations of origin deals with the issue, so I will not say much on it.

The bottom line in "football" terms, is that FIFA recognizes the rightful right to any NT, to call any player bonded to the country of the NT, if there exists a direct parenteral relationship, such as the one Ricardo has with his mother towards her nationality. In other words, with a simple call to him, and if the player is not already cap tied, and also wishes it, he could have played for the team that he prefered to play filling out all the required paperwork, through FIFA, in order to switch NT's. No wrong doing in it.
Before being a football player, he was a citizen, and as a citizen he is entitled of the nationality that he holds. Therefore, he was a swiss-chilean-spanish citizen, so he could have chosen any of the 3, to play for whomever he wished for.
He chose Switzerland, and as he has already played official matches, he now is cap tied.
We lost him, Spain lost him and Switzerland won him, and this is in "football" terms. In "social" terms, he can still hold the swiss-chilean dual citizenship, if Switzerland has recognized recognizes him/or his family to its citizenship, an issue I'm not quite aware of.

 

I'm sorry but Rickdog: who you are is first and foremost decided by the individual. If someone believes himself to be American, not Serbian, despite only living 5 years in America and 30 in Serbia, then he is American first and foremost.

Naturally the situation isn't as simple in football, as a lot of players will opt for the team they have a better chance of winning stuff with, not necessarily chosing with their heart. (Or conversely with the team that wants them)