i wasn't trying to be racial when creating this thread or say that having people with different nationalities play on your team is bad. i'd love to have some players with different nationalities play for south korea! for example like japan and alessandro santos. i bet a lot of people in brazil went for santos in 2002 WC Russia- Shin Eui Son (korean but played twice i think as Russia's goalkeeper) Germany- Gerald Asamoah (Ghania) USA- Freddy Adu (Ghana) Japan- Alessandro Santos (Brazil) South Africa- Hans Vonk (Netherlands) Poland- Emmanuel Olissadebee (Poland), Tunisia - Francileudo Dos Santos (Brazil) Tunisia - Clayton (Brazil) Germany - Oliver Neuville (Switzerland) Germany- Paulo Rink (Brazil) Hong Kong - Lawrence Akandu (Nigeria) Lebanon - Jadir Morgenstern (Brazil) Vietnam - Robson (Brazil) Trinidad & Tobago - Christopher Birchall (England) Singapore - Daniel Bennett (England) England - Owen Hargreaves (Canada) Mexico-Zinha (Brazil) Italy - Camoranesi (Argentina) Portugal - Deco (Brazil) Holland - Clarence Seedorf (Surinam). Canada - Thomas Radzinski (Czech Republic) USA-David Regis(Martinique) France - Rio Antonio Mavuba (Angola) France- Peguy Luyindula (DR Congo) France-Alain Boumsong (Cameroon) France-Jean Alain Boumsong (Cameroon) France-Claude Makelele (Congo) Norway - Hasan El Fakiri (Morocco) Lebanon - Gilberto Dos Santos, Newton de Oliveira (Brazil) Macedonia - Aguinaldo Braga (Brazil) Singapore - Egmar Gonçalves add on if you want!
FRANCE : - Patrick Vieira (Senegal) - Djibril Cissé (Ivory Coast) - Camel Meriem (Algeria) - Bernard Mendy (Senegal) - Sidney Govou (Benin) - David Trézéguet (Argentina) - Robert Pirès (Portugal) - Olivier Kapo (Ivory Coast) - Patrice Evra (Senegalese)
France are the complete kings of taking advantage of African talent-imagine where they'd be in the football world without their former empire Don't forget there's also: Australia Max Vieri (Christian's forgotten brother) (Italy) Technically was born in Australia, but pretty much everything else about him seems pretty Italian to me We've stopped picking him lately though... And the three greatest examples of traitorous scum to walk this Earth: Croatia-Josip Simunic (Australia) Croatia-Ante Seric (Australia) Croatia-Joey Didulica (Australia) All of Croatian heritage, true, but born, raised and bought up as footballers in Australia OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
Traitor! I'm pretty positive that Radzinski is more or less completely Canadian. I know he grew up in North York, Toronto (Where I live) since when he was a kid... Plus, I believe he is of Polish Descent, not Czech.
Germany - Kevin Kuranyi (Brazil) God,we have too many Brazilians playing at different countries.Maybe I would move to Macau or Guam and get another nationality Well,Lebanon and Brazil have a solid relationship,so it's normal.They must have 3rd or 2nd Lebanese heritage,so that's easily explained.
dont forget to add Zidan too. his parents are from Morocco, but he was born and raised in france so that make like vut... 7 players. but i think the complete king o takin advantage of other countries is the States. the entire team is foreign. vut 5 latino players, we got adu, mcbride form england.... Also, Iran ... Freydoon Zandi (D). hes gotta persian name but hes more german than irani. he speaks little farsi and with the wierdest accent i have ever heard. his mother is german, his gf is german....
lol at france, its all african, ghana cudve been a powerhouse would like to add davids and kluiverit (surinam) zandis dad is iranian, hes not a case
Singapore - Ittimi dickson(nigeria) - Agu Casmir(Nigeria) Indonesia(Dutch east Indies) -SOmmers(dutch) Japan - Ruy Ramos(Brazil)
it's 'puff, puff, pass', not 'puff, puff, hold ... puff, puff, smoke some more' .... but whatever you're smokin, give some to me Zinedine Zidane's parents are from Morocco???? that's news to me. and him. last Zizou checked, he was Algerian. and Brian McBride's from England????????????? did you seriously write that? Brian McBride is born and raised in the US (and his parents and their parents). as far as the 5 latino players that were born outside of the US ... let me think: Pablo Mastroeni, he was born in Argentina. there's one. Bocanegra was born in California. Claudio Reyna was born in New Jersey. Chris Armas is Puerto Rican, which last I checked is part of the US. where are the other 4 players??? hmm ... i'm starting to think you're less than informed.
LOL Zidane is from Algeria ! FRANCE : - Marcel Desailly (Ghana) - Youri Djorkaeff (Armenia) - Alain Boghossian (Armenia) - Jean Tigana (Mali) - Ibrahim Ba (Senegal) JAPAN : - Wagner Lopes (Brazil) ITALY : - Fabio Liverani (Somalia) - Simone Perotta (England) RUSSIA : - Lee Song-Nam (South Korea) SPAIN : - Catanha (Brazil) BELGIUM : - Vincent Kompany (RD Congo) - Emile Mpenza (RD Congo) - Mbo Mpenza (RD Congo) - Anthony Vanden Borre (RD Congo) - Luigi Pieroni (Italy) - Walter Baseggio (Italy) - Roberto Bisconti (Italy) CROATIA : - Dado Prso (France) SENEGAL : - Tony Sylva (France) - Habib Beye (France) - Lamine Diatta (France) - Souleymane Diawara (France) - Ibrahim Tall (France) - Omar Daf (France) - Aliou Cissé (France) - Amadou Makthar N'Diaye (France) - Sylvain N'Diaye (France) - Pape Sarr (France) - Frédéric Mendy (France) - Issa Ba (France) - Moussa N'Diaye (France) - El-Hadji Diouf (France) - Souleymane Camara (France) - Mamadou Niang (France) MALI : - Frédéric Kanouté (France) - Cédric Kanté (France) - Fousseni Diawara (France) - Sammy Traoré (France) - Djibril Sidibé (France) - Mamadou Bagayoko (France) GABON : - Daniel Cousin (France) IVORY COAST : - Emerse Faé (France) - Gérard Gnanhouan (France) - Abdoulaye Meïté (France) - Guy Demel (France) - Aruna (Burkina Faso) - Dagui Bakari (France) - Didier Drogba (France) - Ibrahima Bakayoko (France) SWEDEN : - Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Bosnia Herzegovinia) TURKEY : - Ümit Davala (Germany) - Ilhan Mansiz (Germany) - Hamit Altintop (Germany) - Tayfun Korkut (Germany) - Baris Deniz (Germany) - Havutçu Tayfur (Germany) - Akin Serhat (Germany) CAMEROON : - Bill Tchato (France) - Valéry Mézague (France) - Patrick Mboma (France) - Jean Noël Perrier-Doumbé (France) - Salomon Olembé (France) - Jean-Hugues Ateba-Bilayi (France) - Jacques Momha (France) - Eric Djemba Djemba (France) - Essola (France) TUNISIA : - Selim Benachour (France) - Adel Chedli (France) - Medhi Nafti (France) TOGO : - Jean-Paul Abalo (France) - Mickaël Dogbé (France) NIGERIA : - Peter Odemwingie (Russia) - Jay-Jay Okocha (Turkey) - Obafemi Martins (Italy) - Bartholomew Ogbeche (France) - Célestine Babayaro (England) SWITZERLAND : - Hakan Yakin (Turkey) - Murat Yakin (Turkey) - David Sesa (Italy) - Patrick Müller (Austria) RD CONGO ! - Herita Ilunga (France) - Hervé Lembi (Belgium) - Chiguy Lucau (France) - Shabani Nonda (Burundi) BENIN : - Oumar Tchomogo (France) BURKINA FASO : - Abdoulaye Cissé (Ivory Coast) MAROCCO : - Mustapha Hadji (France) - Youssouf Hadji (France) - Gharib Amzine (France) - Yacine Abdelssadki (France) - Jaouad Zaïri (France) - Marouane Chamakh (France) - Ali Elkhattabi (Holland) - Bouadbid Bouden (France) - Farid Talhaoui (France) GHANA : - Otto Addo (Germany) GUINEA : - Pascal Feindouno (France) - Fodé Mansaré (France) - Dianbobo Baldé (France) - Morlaye Soumah (France) - Pablo Thiam (Germany) ALGERIA : - Mohamed Benhamou (France) - Medhi Meniri (France) - Brahim Hemdani (France) - Ali Benarbia (France) - Anthar Yahia (France) - Samir Amireche (France) - Yazid Mansouri (France) - Madjid Adjaoud (France) - Malek Aït-Alia (France) - Madgid Bougherra (France) - Fodil Hadjadj (France) - Karim Ziani (France) - Ali Boulebda (France) - Sabri Tabet (France) - Salim Arrache (France) - Abdelmalek Cherrad (France) - Nassim Akrour (France) - Mansour Boutabout (France)
He's born in Edinberg, Scotland, but raised and currently makes his home in Brampton (Near Toronto), I believe.
It's a US territory or something like that. I think all Puerto Ricans are US citizens but are not allowed to vote in us elections.
wow, i had two green cards not a while ago but now look at me. must be bunch of jealous stupid cry babies neg repping me with full of inferior complex and hatred.
Yeah, I work with a Puerto Rican, and he says that Puerto Ricans cannot vote except when they are residing in the US.
haha kinda same with me.. i hate 4 green cards and all of a sudden i got lowered to two, and i havent been negative repped in like since june, and then i still had 4 green cards and i havent got anything except pos reps, and all of a sudden i checked yesterday and i was at two green
I think that you have to separate the players who change nationalities once they are either; adult, pro player and those who change nationalities when their families emmigrate to another country and they are kids. Example the Brazilian player who took up German citizenship were already adult and established pro. His reason for taking German citizenship I suspect was to get by the foreign player limits and possibly play for the NAT team. The US player Pablo Maestroni moved from Argentina with his family when he was 3. Not many three olds are scouted as potential players. It also depends on the countries immigration policy. France, US, UK (and other countries) take in a many refugees and immigrants. The above example Pablo Maestroni came from Argentina during all the political trouble there and was just one family of many who left the country. On the other hand you have a guy like Wagner Lopes who helped Japan secure the 1998 WC slot. He was Brazilian and changed nationality quickly to help the J-NAT team. Japan is a country that has an appalling low acceptance of refugees, less than 3 a year...
Zidane is from Marseille. he is of Algerian ancestry. there is a difference vis a vis the topic at hand.