The Multi-Eligible Player Recruitment Thread (2026 WC Cycle Edition)

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If you’re Hall and reading the replies and your own Polish fans are calling you awful racist things, why would you want to play for that country?

I don’t wanna say there’s never anything bad said to players that crosses the line, but I don’t think USMNT fans tend to racially insult their players. I think the USMNT fanbase is generally more tolerant of players from the whole spectrum of backgrounds. I think it’s one of the pros to our team for players. You aren’t going to feel like being “different” in any way makes you ostracized, either by your teammates or the fans.

 

Indeed..........................

We went thru the whole Poland thing with Slonina.
Heck, with Szetela before that.

We should expect a nation like Poland to come after our prospects.
We've built a relationship up with Julian. I'm not more worried about that than with any other dual-national.

What percentage of our top prospects are dual-nationals? Its a high number.

I learned long ago that stressing about every one was going to give me an aneurysm.
There are people in the twitterverse who seem to thrive on it. They really WANT to have a reason to bash the federation by implying we're bad with dual-nationals. Why? I don't know. We're better with dual-nationals that just about anybody outside of Morocco.

 

The difference here is his skin color and like ussoccer97531 I've seen some pretty shocking comments. Worse than anything I've ever hear here even among some pretty racist guys. Is it really a thing in Poland?

 

Automatic citizenship revocation is nuts and borderline human rights abuse. There needs to be due process.

 

I'm not as sympathetic if Indonesia requires no dual citizenship and Netherlands says you give up Dutch citizenship if you get a passport for another country. Maybe not knowing one of those things is believable but both? Seems like no one thought it would be enforced and when a club filed a lawsuit the judge had to rule on the facts and the law. I am a bit sympathetic to the argument that no government officials brought it up. The solution is a stopgap law that grandfathers those that already did it while raising awareness for anyone doing it going forward. I guess they could eliminate the losing citizenship part but I don't see how they'd deal with countries that don't allow dual citizenship like Indonesia. If you renounce Dutch citizenship you'd have to be listed as a foreign player. Perhaps Indonesia needs to make a law carving out dual citizenship for special cases.

 

It's an unusual case in that The Netherlands is headed the opposite direction of citizenship trends in other countries (though Italy toughened their rules recently). There are several countries that require surrender of citizenship upon naturalization (Germany used to do this), but don't require it if you are born with the citizenship (by heritage in this case).

I don't know the details of Suriname's or Indonesia's citizenship laws, but it could be that the athletes weren't eligible for the citizenship at birth (based on parents or grandparents), so had to go through a process similar to naturalization. Even FIFA, in it's roundabout way, differentiates between citizenship by heritage and by naturalization.

This is further evidence that athletes aren't really clued into the rules outside the actual game.

 

Please don't lump "People have a right to dual-citizenship" as a human right. It's somewhat archaic in the world of air travel we have today, but it's not a right.

Ironically, I think these passport issues are coming from both sides! Indonesia, Cape Verde, and Suriname are among the 39-ish countries that either ban dual citizenship outright or have extremely specific rules about dual citizenship in very specific cases. Add in that the Dutch revoke your Dutch citizenship upon you gaining another one (MOST of the time), and it might be hard to get that Dutch passport back...

 

The key word is automatic. Automatic revocation can have a huge and disproportionate effect versus the actual intent and knowledge of the issue. Precisely because all those countries don't allow dual citizenship I am very concerned that the players may have been tricked into switching or that passports were issued without proper process. This all seems highly irregular.

Edit: I'm just remembering that Argentina makes citizenship irrevocable. I'm not sure what would be the thing to do in that case.

 

Alright, I went down a rabbit hole and there are a lot of exemptions in Netherlands for dual nationality. A big one is being dual national before you are of majority. Another big one is being married to a Dutch citizen or a citizen of the other nationality. In practice, I doubt anyone cares to denounce possible violators since there so many exemptions. That is, unless you are a club losing a game.

 

Keyrol to Honduras is a done deal. Here's the surprisingly touching video of Maynor and Keyrol.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2731695917212969

Here's the report from Spanish publication As.

https://as.com/us/futbol/keyrol-figueroa-elige-a-honduras-f202605-n/

 

Quioto has now retired and Lozano is 33 and Honduras has been calling up a lot of young players.

The young guy who has been played the most is Keyrol's younger half brother, Dereck Moncada. Dereck who is a RW on loan in Colombia and doing very well. I don't know how much the brothers have talked or even played together but Dereck looks the type to send in good crosses for Keyrol.

 

The size of this WC as well as the public nature of FIFA switches now has really upped the volume of switches. My social media feed is filled with switches to WC teams as well as those who have switched over for the next cycle.

I predict at least one WC team will have issues related to recently switched player(s) sometime during the tournament.

 

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