Posted by admin | Posted in Football Talk | Posted on 18-03-2010
Does each country have its own rules or is it a FIFA rule.
For example: lets say i was born in the U.S. and im a US citizen but my parents are both Canadian citizens, but i have lived most of my life in Mexico. So what national teams can i play for?
Or are there even rules to this (can i just play for any national team)
These are examples i just want to know how that works; and would greatly appriciate a link to a set of rules on how that works
i think you can play on any national team (provide you have citizenship in that country)
Yeah any country you’re a citizen of, but if you have dual citizenship you can’t change after you’ve already played for one team
if your a citzen of any country you can play for any of them at school boy level but when you play professionally you onli play one
Sorry I don’t have a link to the rules, but I know you can play for a country that you can show ancestry to or connection to (ie naturalization). The rules are pretty liberal, except that once you play for one nation’s national team you can never play for any other nation.
An example is Benny Feilheiber, who was born in Brazil of Austrian parents, grew up in the USA, and could trace his ancestors to Israel. He could have played for any of those nations, but chose USA.