http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/feedarticle/8539751 This is news is about a week old now, but I thought it would be interesting to discuss the potential impact of the new rule on concacaf national teams. Obviously Arturo Alvarez will now be able to join El Salvador and would be eligible before the world cup (should they qualify). Edgar Castillo of Las Cruces, New Mexico would be able to join the USA as he only has youth caps for Mexico. USA was his first choice to begin with, but he was ignored by our idiotic scouts. He would definitely be our first choice left back and he seems to be on the outside looking in when it somes to Mexico's seleccion. Bundesliga player Jermine Jones has some youth caps for Germany, but is eligible for the US thru his father now that the rule has changed. Who else?
Seems like the US got the first big boost, Jermaine Jones has stated his intentions to play with the US and should be a sure starter with the team, and likely one of the top midfielders in Concacaf. Not sure any other team in Concacaf will be able to lure a player of the came caliber.
Especially impressive for us because the German posters on this forum seem to believe that Jones never got a fair shot with Germany despite being one of the Bundesliga's best central midfielders. If I had to guess, I would bet Alvarez switching to El Salvador will be the next CONCACAF related decision.
Does the US have any good Mexican youth players at the moment? I think our youth system has more Mexican Americas than the US has.
Plays for Schalke 04, was rated by Kicker as the 4th best midfielder in the Bundesliga last season. #1 was some bum named Ribery. http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/...-09/topspieler_position/3/topspieler_verein/0
I dont like it, rich countries are gonna suddenly use former brazilian U17-U20 players on their teams, they shoulndt have changed it IMO
I disagree. Countries like Germany, England, Brazil, Spain, etc.......string players along making them think they will be a part of it all just to keep their player pools as deep as possible until the said player is too old to make a switch. Some of what you say will happen, but over all I think the new rule is fair.
Just who has England 'strung along'? And your point is incorrect, if countries wanted to keep player pools as deep as possible they'd cap young players left, right and centre as opposed to, you know, not capping them.
I'm guessing the Caribbean countries will be the ones to really benefit. We'll probably see a whole bunch of former English and US players switch.
Hopefully this will happen. I would love to see a couple Carribean teams make a serious ruckus in the Hex.
This will help the smaller teams such as Algeria etc. Many good players of African decent living in France who played at the youth level can now play for their motherland. Same for the Carribbean players living re England.
Too bad, Suriname is very stubborn about not using players who leave the country to play professionally. Imagine Suriname's roster that would be full foreign mercenaries.