There are some Hong Kong media and fans who would like to see Hong Kong born Italian striker Antoine Viterale play for Hong Kong. He has been to RCD Espanyol and AC Chievo's youth teams. In December he signed for Hougang United in Singapore. I think they should let him join the U23 for the 2018 Asian Games first, if he chooses to take up the HK SAR passport.
I'm not sure if anyone had mention this but from an article two years ago: https://hkfa.com/news_details/12605 Now with KC Southern, Roberto Fronza is another naturalised player who could potentially represent Hong Kong.
There has been a lot of talk in regards to whether the Singapore national football team should consider or draft in 3 players for the Foreign Talent Scheme who would become eligible to represent the team having met the residency. These players are South Korean born defender Song Ui-Young, French defender Sirina Kamara and Canadian midfielder Jordan Webb. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...-reconsider-the-foreign-talent-scheme-8853826
Does anybody know what happened with this ? Until today, none of them has played for Banglsdesh and it seems that at least Kingsley has left the country in the meantime
Indonesia Naturalized footballers list updte: 1. Jhonny Van Beukering (Netherland, Indonesian blood) 2. Tonnie Cussel (Netherland, Indonesian blood) 3. Diego Michels (Netherland, Indonesian blood) 4. Ruben Wuarbanaran (Netherland, Indonesian Blood) 5. Stefano Lilipaly (Netherland, Indonesian Blood) 6. Ezra Walian (Netherland, Indonesian Blood) 7. Sergio Van Dijk (Netherland, Indonesian Blood) 8. Raphael Maitimo (Netherland, Indonesian Blood) 9. Kim Jeffery Kurniawan (Germany, Indonesian blood) 10. Christian Alfaro Gonzales (Uruguay) 11. Victor Igbonefo (Nigeria) 12. Greg Nwokolo (Nigeria) 13. Bio Pierre Paulin (Cameroon) 14. Guy Junior (Cameroon) 15. Herman Dzumafo (Cameroon) 16. Ilja Spasojevic (Montenegro) Herman Dzumafo, Guy Junior, Ruben Wuarbanaran are still 0 caps.
The Hong Kong national team did naturalised another three players who were originally Spanish: 1. Jordi Tarres 2. Fernando Recio 3. Daniel Cancela
Ahamad Azzawi (Iraq -> Japan) His parents are from Iraq but he was born and rasied in Japan. He currently plays for Al Kahraba FC in the Iraqi top division. https://www.transfermarkt.com/ahamad-azzawi/profil/spieler/484148 https://www.facebook.com/ahamad.azzawi
Here is an up-to-date list of all the naturalised players who had represented the Hong Kong National Football Team from the past to present: Arthur G dos. SANTOS - Portugal - 1953 J.H. TOLEIDO - Portugal - 1958 T. WATSON - England - 1959 Charlie WRIGHT - Scotland - 1960 EVANS - England - 1963 Ken G. WALLIS - England - 1963 Peter McCLAREN - Australia - 1965 Dave ANDERSON - Scotland - 1978 Derek CURRIE - Scotland - 1978 Hugh McCRORIE - Scotland - 1980 Mark GRANGER - England - 1995 Dale Michael TEMPEST - England - 1997 John MOORE - England - 1999 Anto GRABO - Bosnia & Herzegovina - 2000 Lawrence Chemezie AKANDU - Nigeria - 2003 Guy Ambassa GERARD - Cameroon - 2005 Cristiano CORDEIRO - Brazil - 2006 Colly Barnes EZEH - Nigeria - 2006 Godfred KARIKARI - Ghana - 2012 Jaimes Anthony McKEE - England - 2012 Wisdom Agbo FOFO - Ghana - 2013 Jack SEALY - England - 2013 Christian Kwesi ANNAN - Ghana - 2014 Festus BAISE - Nigeria - 2015 Jean-Jacques KILAMA - Cameroon - 2015 PAULINHO - Brazil - 2015 SANDRO - Brazil - 2015 Alex Tayo AKANDE - Nigeria - 2015 ITAPARICA - Brazil - 2016 ROBERTO Affonso Junior - Brazil - 2016 Andrew James RUSSELL - England - 2016 HELIO Goncalves - Brazil - 2016 Paul Olivier NGUE - Cameroon - 2016 Jordi Paramo TARRES - Spain - 2017 Daniel Rodriguez CANCELA - Spain - 2017 Fernando Comi RECIO - Spain - 2017 Here is the list naturalised players who were originally from China who had represented Hong Kong from the past to present: SONG Lianyong (SUNG Lin Yung) - 1997 FENG Jizhi - 2000 XIAO Guoji - 2002 LIU Quankun - 2006 CHAO Pengfei - 2008 GAO Wen - 2008 LI Haiqiang - 2008 XU Deshuai - 2008 BAI He - 2009 DENG Jinghuang - 2009 ZHANG Chunhui - 2009 JU Yingzhi - 2010 YE Jia - 2010 WEI Zhao - 2011 HUANG Yang - 2012 LIU Songwei - 2012 WANG Zhenpang - 2016 Sources: Fanpiece blog (in Chinese) Fanpiece blog 2 (in Chinese)
Further naturalised Hong Kong players: GIOVANE da Alves Silva - Brazil - 2018 Yuto NAKAMURA - Japan - 2018 Today, China had fielded their first-ever naturalised player in Elkeson (Ai Kesan) during today's FIFA World Cup qualifying match against the Maldives.
Now UAE has 3 naturalized players. Sebastian Tagliabue (Argentina) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastián_Tagliabúe Fabio Lima (Brazil) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fábio_Virginio_de_Lima Caio Canedo (Brazil) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caio_Canedo_Corrêa
Nigerian striker Eleta Kingsley obtained his Bangladeshi passport and has been called up to the Bangladesh squad. The 31-year old has been playing for various Bangladesh Premier League clubs since 2011.
Hong Kong has added a few more naturalised players in which they could feature for the national team in the future: 1. Diego Moreira Eli (Brazil) 2. Sean Tse (Irish/Hong Kong) 3. Fernando Augusto Azevedo Pedriera (Brazil) Players who are eligible to represent Hong Kong having lived there for at least seven years (are in the process of obtaining a HK passport): 1. Wellingsson de Souza (Brazil) 2. Tomas Maronesi (Brazil)
China added 5 naturalized players from Brazil and England to their national team to help them qualify for the World Cup. 3 of those participated in their WC qualifier against Guam a few days ago scoring 3(2 by Alan Carvalho and 1 by Elkeson) of the 7 goals that China registered in their dominant 7-0 win.