Players on National Teams with different Nationalities

Shin Eui Son played for Tajikistan and was their starting GK for a long time. He may or may not have played for the USSR - I think he was 42 when he played his last match for Tajikistan.

I'm only going to list the ones that I think others will be slower to find.

Tunisia - Francileudo Dos Santos, Clayton (both Brazil)
Germany - Oliver Neuville (Switzerland), Gerald Asamoah (Ghana), Paulo Rink (Brazil)

Adu is not capped for the senior US national team. Also note that both he and Mastroeni came to the US at an early age and played all of their organized soccer in the US, so IMHO neither should count.

And some obscure ones recently capped:

Hong Kong - Lawrence Akandu (Nigeria)
Lebanon - Jadir Morgenstern (Brazil) and two other Brazilians, will look them up when I get home.
Vietnam - Robson (Brazil)
Trinidad & Tobago - Christopher Birchall (England)
Singapore - Daniel Bennett (England)

 

Japan - Alessandro Santos (Brazil)
England - Owen Hargreaves (Canada)

 

Mexico-Zinha (Antonio Naelson Matiasar )---he was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

Even though there's a lot of folklore out there that the AUS National team consists of many "foreign" players, there are many more cases of the opposite actually being the case.

For example, a number of Australian born & bred players are on the Croatian national team, with Joey Didulic (goal-keeper) one that comes to mind immediately.

 

Italy - Camoranesi (Argentina)
Portugal - Deco (Brazil)

 

Holland - Clarence Seedorf (Surinam). Approx. 2/3 of the 98 Dutch World Cup team were naturalized cititzens.

 

Canada - Thomas Radzinski was born in Czech Republic.
I`m not sure but it wouldnt suprise me is every one on Canadas team was born somewhere else. Our world cup cricket team had nobody born in Canada

 

There are many Polish-born players who play or have played for Germany. Klose, Podolski and Freier are only three examples. They could have played for either country by the virtue of their dual citizenship, but decided to play for the Germans.

 

USA's David Regis (Martinique)- USA fans remember this fiasco, boy it really helped the 1998 team.

funny thing, my high school soccer coach went to high school in martinique and played with him, says he was a good guy

im sure there were others for the USA, but thats all i can think of.

 

Wow this thread has more than 3 posts and no one has mentionned anything about players in the French squad....

France - Rio Antonio Mavuba (Angola)
- Peguy Luyindula (DR Congo)
-Jean-Alain Boumsong (Cameroon)
-Claude Makelele (Congo)

Norway - Hasan El Fakiri (Morocco)

 

Some more Brazilians capped by other countries...

Lebanon - Gilberto Dos Santos, Newton de Oliveira
Macedonia - Aguinaldo Braga
Singapore - Egmar Gonçalves

 

adu and mastroeni can go here, since they both have(had?) two nations to pick from. even is they came here at a young age, they could've played for a country not named the US(adu still can)

shaka hislop trinidad and tobago (england)

france
youri djorkaeff - (ethnic armenian. could've played for armenia because of heritage.)

marcel desailly (ghana)
patrick vieira (senegal)
robert pires (spanish and portugese)
david trezeguet(argentina)
zinedine zidane (algeria)
christian karembeu (new caledonia)

holland

davids (suriname)
van bronckhorst (indonesia)


USA

thomas dooley (german)
claudio reyna and tab ramos (uruguay)

the mpenza brothers- belgium (congo)

kuranyi was born in brazil, but to german parents

ibrahimovic- sweden-(bosnia)

eduardo da silva- croatia (brazil)

im pretty sure i missed some easy ones.

 

I don't think this is quite true in terms of citizenship. Seedorf moved to the Netherlands when he was two (in 1978) and I believe that Surinamers retained their Dutch citizenship until five years after independence (until 1980).

There were three other Surinam-born players on the 1998 teams (not sure where you get the 2/3 figure), but all the others were born pre-independence.

 

Why does someone have to start a thread like this every month or so? And why does some moron always have to list every non-white player who's ever played for France as somehow being foreign and less-than-french?

Why are people so bothered by the idea of someone who doesn't have all 4 grandparents born in a given country playing for it?

 

Oh, and the title of this thread is idiotic. All players on any given team have the same nationality, that of the country in question.

 

I agree that threads like this emerge to often, but there's nothing wrong with the title.

I think seven players with Croatian heritage played for Australia in the Confederations Cup

Yeah, they were born and bred there, but their nationality is Croatian, so I don't see the problem here, at least not while the thread title is Players on National Teams with different Nationalities

I'm not sure what is the correct definition of "nationality" in English but I think it is often mixed up with citizeship. Those are two completely dissimilar things at least in Croatian. Maybe those are synonyms in English, but then could someone tell me what would be the English term for what I think of when I say nationality.

 

But then the list of players from the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand will go on and on forever if this is how you define nationalities. Those countries are made up of immigrants. Brazil, Argentina and the rest of South America can also come with lists that go on forever.

Meanwhile, some players are of mixed nationalities too. Fox example, Oliver Bierhoff is half-Italian. He is as German as any German player on the German NT. Do we add him to the list?

 

to this list, yes. it's just a list of players who could've played for more than one NT. it's not a debate about who belongs on which national team.

 

Techincally, yes. But there is no need to go that far.

But take Adu for example. Would you dare to call him an American? I wouldn't. Yes, he has an American citizeship but from my point of view he'll never be an American (and my point isn't he shouldn't play for the US, but just to show you what nationality for me really represents).

 

I would definitely call Adu an American. Your view is a very European view and I don't mean that in a bad way, it's just a difference in cultures. We don't take much stock in what blood flows within whoevers veins. Immigrants are what this country is made of and what has made it great (my opinion ofcourse). Him and his family are just as American as my family that have been here for over a hundred years (and my ancestors did not come here willingly). And I think a lot of other Americans or people from other immigrant countries would think the same about people who come to their respective countries.

 

No, it's not. His view is his view and in no way representative of a whole continent. It is ludicrous to tar all Europeans (and I'm sure you'll include the British in that) with this. Ask any Briton if Lennox Lewis or Greg Rusedski are British. Or for that matter how about Vikram Solanki, Amir Khan, or Daley Thompson. They are all immigrants or the children of immigrant families and there is no-one (outside the BNP) who would call them anything other than British.

The same attitude applies in most of Europe, certainly in my experience.

 

I think threads like this are fun, especially during the off season, if only for the "what if" factor. For instance, its fun to imagine a Polish NT with Klose and Podolski (Polish born), plus Crystal Palace's Andy Johnson (eligible to play for Polish NT due to his Polish heritage), plus Danny Szetela (likewise), plus Diego Klimowicz (same thing). You can then imagine playing the coach/manager, and try to figure out whether it would be better to have one of those guys replace your National Team's regular, or not.

By the way, I don't understand why the French controversy keeps coming back all the time. France is the only former colonial power that considers its overseas territories to be a part of the country. Therefore, if you go to Martinique, you actually are in France according to French law. Same goes for people born in the French overseas territories.

 

I am no tarring all Europeans with the same brush, and yes I would include the British as Europeans, why that is important I don't know. I didn't say it was THE European view! It, I believe is a very European view ofcourse depending on where you go, relative to most immigrant countries.

 

Nationality - the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization (added emphasis)

I think you are looking for
Ethnicity - an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties
or National Origin.

I hope this helps.