We might think about getting the paperwork going for Fabrice Noel, assuming the political asylum exception to a foreign cap is still a FIFA rule.
And I suspect with his attitude he may not play for the USA either! Seriously-from my observations, if you want to play FOR Italy, you have to play IN Italy...and don't you think that not calling him into their U-20 squad is a big hint?
Your right that has been the case but they better change that with Cassano (IMO there most dangerous offensive weapon) signing with Real Madrid today.
It seems that some of you think that the USMNT does not bring players just to be on the NT...i'm not sure..but here's what I know about the situation. The MLS teams become the employer of players, which enable them to get green cards...if they stay long enough, they can become permanent residents first, then US citizens..but that is like 8-10 years removed from first arrival, unless of course, they marry here.
We are a country of a lot of immigrants (thank God) and we'll always have a few on the roster on average. Agree we should continue to avoid dragging in players like Regis (making him a citizen purely for soccer reasons).
yep, that's who i meant...El Guille Franco.... My bad...For some reason ...Fonseca/Franco keep getting them confused.... I'm with you here as well My guess is that quite few of them -over the course of many years, not right now- would play for Mexico...Seeing how they love naturalized players that might be an issue they'll have to contend with in the future.... Although i think IIRC, by Mexican law a parent being a Mexican citizen is good enough for the son to also qualify.....
A citizen is a citizen, that's fundamental. But I am happy that, unlike Mexico, we are not naturalizing people who came to the US as an adult to play soccer (though this is mainly a factor of the fact that our foreigners are not as good or are ineligible like Carlos Ruiz or Ronnie O'Brien or Sharlie Joseph as MLS players tend to come from weaker soccer countries than those in Mexico)
Yes, there are many, many more. At least 50% of the U17 national squad had at least one foreign parent. That's the next stage of U.S. development. The 1980s, naturalize the foreign-born. The 2000s, train the first-born. Maybe by 2020, we'll have a large number of kids from U.S. born parents who develop the passion for soccer, too.
An American is an American (no matter how small). And fellas, whatever might be happening with El Tri at the moment, you're kidding yourselves if you don't think Mexico develops enough good domestic players. This naturalization spike has much more to do with the politics of its federation than its player development pipeline.
I suspect that the exceptions are made with players already in the system-but for a youth player, I suspect it still holds. Frank
Why do you say this? I know that you are close to Cooper. Have you had any contact with Rossi? Or is this based upon the fact that he plays outside of Italy? Or, some other reason(s)? Please enlighten me.
He doesn't think Rossi is or ever will be good enough to play for the Azzurri or at the very worst to overcome the disadvantage of playing outside Serie A. Cassano needs to overcome his non-soccer brain more.
How is it that players like Roberto Carlos and Ronaldo are able to get Spanish citizenship, but are still able to play for the Brazil national team?
Dual citizenship is allowed. It's who gets there first type of a deal. Deco was non-capped and is playing for Portugal now.
hit the nail on the head.....on both counts.....Rossi hasn't been picked for any Italian youth national team since he signed for Man Utd and was totally overlooked for last summers u20's even though the Italians were fairly poor....
Play for your native country=Good Play for your adopted country=Good Adopt a country so you can play=Bad
Yep. Accordinging to the last census, 10.2% of Americans are foreign-born. So statistics would dictate that 2-3 of our World Cup 23 would be foreign-born. As far as I can tell, Mastroeni is the only lock in that group. Adu, Cunningham, maybe even Feilhaber are the others who would have a chance (miniscule as it would be). So, believe it or not, the US team is actually below the country at large wrt the percentage of naturalized citizens. Seems pretty counter-intuitive, but it's true.
After going through some of this naturalization crap, I think there's like an added rule that if you benefit the country you get quick naturalization. I think this was something done right after or during WWII to get all the Nazi scientist here and working on the space program. Now we use it to get the David Regis, or whoever. I think this is right, but I could be wrong. Either way, I came here from France at the age of two, I don't feel any affinity to France at all. I think at like an Adu coming here at 4, he probably feels very American, so to play for Ghana is playing for a foreign team.
Right, but FIFA should make them choose a soccer-citizenship. So they are Brazilian for the World Cup, but Spanish for world club competitions? How can this be allowed? If they move to the Premiership, can they give up their Spanish citizenship for English? This is clearly a case of getting citizenship for personal interest, not for love of country.
fifa does make you choose. At age 21 I believe, unless you choose earlier by getting captied in certain matches. They are actually stricter than the world at large. If you are a dual, or like my kids, triple citizen, you have full citizenship rights (and responsibilities) in all countries. So be aware of tax implication and Military service requirements before you go passport shopping.