Latest master list of One-Time Switches: IN Folarin Balogun Tyler Boyd Teal Bunbury Cole Campbell Edgar Castillo Ado Jahic (futsal) Jesse Gonzalez Julian Green Aron Johannsson Fabian Johnson Jermaine Jones Edwin Lara Kristoffer Lund Aaron Maund Andres Perea Kenny Saief Malik Tillman Timothy Tillman OUT Danilo Acosta (to Honduras) Ayo Akinola (to Canada) Noah Allen (to Greece) Arturo Alvarez (to El Salvador) Issac Angking (to Puerto Rico) Julian Araujo (to Mexico) Eric Calvillo (to El Salvador) Dustin Correa (to El Salvador) Jonathan Gonzalez (to Mexico) Tayvon Gray (to Jamaica) Jeremy Hall (to Puerto Rico) Moises Hernandez (to Guatemala) Aaron Herrera (to Guatemala) Fuad Ibrahim (to Ethiopia) Gerson Mayen (to El Salvador) Nick Millington (to Guyana) Amando Moreno (to El Salvador) Alex Nimo (to Liberia) David Ochoa (to Mexico) Joshua Perez (to El Salvador) Rubio Rubin (to Guatemala) Obed Vargas (to Mexico) Oscar Sorto (to El Salvador) Nevin Subotic (to Serbia) Tony Taylor (to Panama) Zarek Valentin (to Puerto Rico) Eriq Zavaleta (to El Salvador)
Luca Koleosho, who'd need a one-time switch to play for us, is still getting called up by Italy U21s. I’m a little surprised by this, but Luca Koleosho makes the Italy U21 team. https://t.co/IbU5dlo8cp— American Ultras Talk (@usmntaut) March 15, 2025
Marcus Ferkranus has, according to the FIFA "OTS Platform", has switched from the US to Australia. FIFA Change of Association Platform
The list of guys who played friendlies for the USYNTs would be tough to manage. Lots of switches there.
Did Dante Sealy have to file a one-time switch to Trinidad & Tobago? He had played a bunch of time for USYNTs, but perhaps not in any competition that was provisionally cap-tying???
According to Transfermarkt, he played in 13 YNT friendlies, most of those at the U16 level. He never appeared in a competitive match for the US.
According to the FIFA Portal, Isaac Alexander Tortola has switched from the US to Canada as of October 1st, 2025. Odd, in that he hasn't played in a real competitive youth match for the US and had played competitive U17 matches for Canada earlier this year. He did play for the US U15s in the Concacaf Championship back in 2023. If the U15s were considered competitive (and the tourney used shorter matches & more than 5 subs, so shouldn't be), then Canada would have been in trouble for playing a provisionally cap-tied player. I guess you can just do an official switch even when you don't need one.
If you're Canada, you want him to file that "one time switch." That means he can't switch back. Right?
Theoretically, but I'm not sure if FIFA has ever ruled on someone who filed a switch but didn't need one.
Worth noting that Nathaniel Brown played for Germany in a WCQer this week. No longer eligible for a one time switch to the USMNT.
"The player has played in a senior match for their first nation but then permanently loses their nationality without their consent due to government authority and holds the association they wish to represent" There's always hope!
I It looks to me like more of "schwanzkopf" move by the germans. he got on in the 82' of a 4-0 beatdown.
What's the practical application of that, countries ceasing to exist such as at the end of the Cold War?
One example would be the break-up of a country, like Croatian players cap-tied to Yugoslavia could switch to Croatia. Another would be if an authoritarian government de-naturalized a class of people and no longer recognized them as citizens.
I think Cuban defectors tried in the past............................... I can't remember if it was successful or not.
We could play Germany in the World Cup and Nathaniel Brown could go all Frings and handle the ball ...but actually get called for it!...and sent off. And the US beats Germany. Turns out, he's a double-agent, and did it all intentionally. Scandal ensues and the result is the German government revokes his citizenship as a traitor against Deutschland. Then he files his switch to the US. Easy.
Ozzie Alonso tried for several years, and he even trained with the USMNT in a January camp while waiting for citizenship. Even though he had lost Cuban nationality, he could still only switch if the Cuban football federation released him, and they refused.
We lost a really really good one but also he was never really ours to lose. Born in Germany, spent his whole life in Germany and never played for our youth teams. He's a great talent though.