Players on National Teams with different Nationalities

what? because these players have played for clubs in those countries that doesn't make that their nationality.

usa- pablo mastreoni and carlos bocanegra barely even speak spanish, they were never developed by any other country but the US. Freddy Adu moved to the US before anyone knew about him as a soccer player

 

why do you have so many greens then?

 

'coz most of my reps were gotten recently. They purged reps that were older than 75-90 days.

 

Too bad about him...he's one of my favorite players now. Your D wouldn't have surrendered as many goals against Germany if he was in. Top 5 defender in Bundesliga.

But at least you still have Skoooookkko.

Adu (Ghana)- US
Kuranyi (brazil)- Germany
Klose(Poland)-Germany
Asamoah(Ghana)-Germany
Zidane(Algeria)-France
Deco(Brazil)-Portugal

 

Zidane's name always comes up in these discussions but he was born and raised in France.

 

rep whore half of my reps are gone but I didn't notice until I saw others complaining...

 

no one likes me....ohwelll...thats kool

 

Chris Armas was born in New York City, and lived his whole life in the US as far as I know, and attended college in the US. He played 5 matches for Puerto Rico, though, before playing for the US.

As it stands, Mastroeni is the only foreign-born player that gets regular time with the US national team. He came to the US when he was 4 years old and basically grew up and lived like any other American, going to school and college here. I wouldn't consider him foreign.

Carlos Bocanegra is American, born and raised. He doesn't even speak Spanish.

Claudio Reyna was born and raised in New Jersey. He spent some time in Argentina as a child since his dad is Argentinian, but he attended high school and college in the US.

Here is the US senior player pool: http://www.ussoccer.com/teams/teamhome_custom.sps?iType=265&icustompageid=475&mtype=8215

Of those players, the ones who can be considered to be "foreign":
- Jeff Cunningham (naturalized citizen, born in Jamaica)
- Diego Gutierrez (naturalized citizen, born in Colombia)
- Earnie Stewart (born in Holland to an American father, raised in Holland)
- Zak Whitbread (born in the US to English parents, raised in England and Singapore)

- Paul

 

Carlos Bocanegra is a fagtard...even if i'm a lame fulham fan

 

And Francileudo Santos How did he get his tunisian citizen so ?

 

Ibrahimovic was born and raised in Sweden.

 

But he also has bosnia citizen ...

 

If You want to argue that Zidane doesn't belong in the French team because of Algerian ancenstry, then i guess United Stated should have bunch of Native Americans playing for them.