Why football's nationality rules have changed 

Yes that's they said, not play in any tournaments or more than three match

@@MiaSanMia_06no more than 3 matches? that must be a “Declan Rice” rule 😂

@@afcHalifax-xy5uu I not understand bro. Fifa rule is to change national team player should have played 3 or less than 3 match for their previous team and shouldn't also played in any international tournament like euro or wc

Kissed the Irish badge and all 😂

Grealish too

Shorts are op

And tifo have sold out

especially as rules were changing rapidly as the globalization hit harder In the 50's you could play for any national team of which you had the citizenship of. So Alfredo di Stefano represented Argentina, Colombia and Spain

Would like to know more too

It's an ad for the book

In November 2007, FIFA President Sepp Blatter told the BBC: "If we don't stop this farce, if we don't take care about the invaders from Brazil towards Europe, Asia and Africa then, in the 2014 or the 2018 World Cup, out of the 32 teams you will have 16 full of Brazilian players."

There were at least two Brazilians in the Russian team, but to be fair they were playing in Russia for years.

China has made football mandotary in schools. If they do that for a decade or 2 it will integrate in their culture and they will produce more higher skilled players. I mean if u have more than a billion citizens. There should be 11 skilled players by math I think?

You should look at futsal national teams from Azerbaijan, Russia or Kazakhstan, they're full of Brazilian players

I’m always fishy of national team players not speaking the national language.

Even legends like Alfredo Di Stefano or Puskas played for multiple national teams.

​Wait, was Puskas naturalized to Spanish right?​@@battistoberhoel8839

Apparently some argentinians switched to Italy as well between world cups. I just saw it on Football Iconic's Spain NT vid

AC Milan legend Jose Altafini, also known as “Mazzola” in Brazil, won the 1958 WC for Brazil but represented Italy in the next WC in 1962.

No, the video gets it wrong. It's either ancestral link OR having lived in the country you're a citizen of continuously for more than five years. There are cases of people being given citizenship to represent a national team e.g. Fernandes who played RB for Russia, he was from Brazil but had lived in Russia long enough for him to be allowed to play for them.

But friendlies don't count though

Imagine a 2008-2012 Spain that also had Messi

@@andresmartinezramos7513doesn’t even sound fair

Lmfao, madness.

Some of the Argentina squad that played the 1930 WC won the 1934 WC with Italy I believe

Playing for England definitely the right decision though....seeing as he's English...

​@@listeywonder why he played for Ireland then isn't it?

@@listey If he was English he probably shouldn't have accepted senior call-ups and not kissed the Ireland badge, then... Seeing as he's English.

​@@listeywith the most English name of Declan

Not some of them, most of them are EU based and don't speak Indonesian, they are also usually born to at least 1 Indonesian parent which makes them Indonesian at least according to Indonesia, yes some were naturalised but a lot were already eligible as far as Indonesia was concerned. Yesterday they beat the Phillipines whose 35 year old striker is from Sweden with a team that had 7 players who were born in the Netherlands.

What colonialism does to a mf

Could be say the same as Malaysia too. There could be many Malaysian blood out there without even need naturalisation.

Seems fair enough? They have a clear ancestral link to their country. No different to Antonio playing for Jamaica.

W? You can just reverse your decision? Sounds just as bad to me.

@@Big_flizz32 I'm specifically referring to how they stopped Qatar's plans.

@@Anton-wk8lv who cares about Qatar? They’re the most harmless nation in football

​@@Big_flizz32it's fine. Tbh, this happens a lot with young player rather than veterans. It should be fine.

​@@Anton-wk8lv yeah many countries like Qatar do this in other sports, where they didn't stop it. Like the Qatari futsal or handball teams are a joke

Belgium and Holland lose a lot of good Moroccans who play for their youth teams...

​@@GuntherSDoumson2178 That's fine. It was great seeing Morocco's performance in the last WC

The issue is that if the rules are stricter, then countries are going to try and cap players ASAP to lock them down. Which is a bad thing. You don't want national FA's putting pressure on 17 year olds.

plenty of other irish guys were aswell

It's a new rule. So existing players are grandfathered in I guess.

isnt that a loophole if u stay in the country for 5 or more u can play in NT ? thats why qatar always bringing in some youth talented player from any other country

​@@lyndaek99you can still gain eligibility by staying in a country for 5 years

Their rules have some pros tho. Like each team can only have 1 such “Embiid”. So 11/12 registered players of an NT have to be products of its nation’s youth system, not just taking advantage of those “half-, half-“ dudes who have developed through the basketball powerhouses’ programs My point of this upside is that each nation has to have a good youth program for it to actually excel

No ancestral link should be acceptable but only if you grew up there (obviously)

Leitch went to high school in Japan and has lived there ever since. I don't see anything wrong with his eligibility.

I'd retract this by saying why shouldn't he be allowed to play for Japan?! Why should he remain in the international wilderness?

Gosh, imagine if the various Pacific Islanders seeded through all the international rugby teams were allowed to play for their home nations instead of being swiped by the richer ones. NZ, Aus, England etc would never see the world cup in their cabinets again!

absolutely no one in Japan would say Michael Leitch is not Japanese What, are we requiring DNA tests now?

The Phillipines has a Swede as their striker and Indonesia just yesterday fielded a team where 7 of the players were born in the Netherlands.

They were naturalized chinese before the rule change

​@@irishgodfatherchrisNo idea about other countries but all Dutch-born Indonesian NT players do have Indonesian ancestry. We have colonial history with the Netherlands from the 17th to mid 20th century; it's not uncommon for today's Dutch people to have Indonesian heritage albeit very small/far off.

​@@trashAndNoStar (neo)colonialism always wins in the end. Soekarno and the gang had been tripping back then lmao 🤣

Tim Cahill's brother represented Samoa

How?

He played for western Samoa u20 when he was 14. Took years of lobbying before he was allowed to play for Australia

@@gumnutgear Ah okay, as a Millwall fan I didn't know that 😅

Canada & Scotland both need all the players they can get. I am Scottish seen Canada a supple of times & they are just as bad as us.

History writes different stories and who are you to decide whether one should or should not choose the country one represents? It's impossible to regulate something of a subjective feeling. Especially if the opposite case, it is the player chooses to play in weaker national team, because one has more chance to play international football at all, also may happen.

Many do. You can't mandate a feeling anyhow.

@@skoczek777 there are regular laws and regulations each country has to determine citizenship. Football players shouldn’t be allowed to make up their own rules. If you don’t find Brazilian players living in Germany being called up for Qatar an issue then I can’t help you.

@@julienbristow-goldschmidt7418 In some cases, you can get dual citizenship through a parent. There have been Nigerian players who were born in the USA and England who qualified through their parents. There’s nothing wrong with that.

@@23_CM And I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that as long as there’s an actual connection to a country. My issues are around things like Brazilians becoming Qataris because they throw money at them. Issue is when players “pick” a nation that suits them rather than playing for the one they feel connected to in reality.

He is a Basque, most of Basques live in Spain and they have their autonomy their. France control small fragments of Basque Country, but probably Spain can claim that Basques are one of the few ethnic groups that collectively are called Spaniards (Andalusians, Aragonese, Asturians, Balearics, Basques, Canary Islanders, Cantabrians, Castilians, Catalans, Extremadurans, Galicians, Leonese, Valencians) even if Laporte nor his closest family did not live in Spain. Whereas France is hostile to ethnic minorities, you are supposed to be French. In other words somebody can identify as Basque AND Spaniard, while in France you are either French or Basque, but definitely not both. Laporte case was viewed in France very negatively as someone who abandon his "Frenchness" in favour of more regional roots.

It’s cause we’re the best, no one talks about Belgium and their Congolese players or Italy with their South American players but want to complain about players born, raised, and bred in France just because of how successful and talented they are.

​@@nathan225Belgium and Congolese is a very tricky case

Any nation that lets itself be replaced by others is morally sick. That's that

@@josuebarboza9809 No one is "replacing" anyone, you're making an argument based on a false premise.

@@MrJorge3010 they're literally being replaced in the national team.

No

So lets say your us american (born and raised) but your father is born in canada and your mother in mexico, additionally your grandparents are from (born in) germany, italy,france and england. My understanding is that you would be eligable for all of those countries. it gets even more complicated if youd move to lets say brazil as a child, i think that would add to the list if you stay there long enough.

Idk about his specific case but it seems to be allowed if you've lived there continuously for x years (thus preventing the Qatar case where they just threw money at random players who didn't even live/play there to naturalise them). Latest case i know is Dean Huijsen (Juve player on loan to Roma). Dutch-born, both parents are Dutch, moved to Spain with his family as a child. Was a Dutch national but recently became Spanish citizen and got called up to Spanish NT training camp.

@@trashAndNoStar Yeah, Roger Guerreiro was playing in Polish league for few years before getting the citizenship. So probably this video just oversimplified.

​@Hadar1991 usually if you become a naturalized citizen they allow it. How that's different from what Qatar did is a thin line in a rule book. However it makes more sense for kids that spent years in a new country like Messi being asked to play for Spain. It's very tricky to say the least

No.

No 1. He's too old, there's a cutoff 2. He's got way too many appearances for Argentina, and at major tournaments 3. He's not a US citizen 4. He hasn't lived there nearly long enough to be naturalized or have any grounds for it

They were Brazilians. Almost all Brazilians have some Portuguese roots.

So is genocide but they do it anyway.

Not usually

Saka is from London, so is Konsa, Guehi has lived in the UK since he was one year old, Mainoo is from Stockport and Eze is from Greenwich.

@@irishgodfatherchris I don't care where they were born. None of them are ethnically English

@@Darth_Benga National teams are about nationality not ethnicity

Going by your stone-age standards, no countries in the America and Oceania continents could put together enough players for a single team. Good thing we dont go by that 🤷.

@@trashAndNoStar only Europe is diluted in this way. You don't see it happening to African or Asian teams so your takedown of my "stoneage" standards is flat out wrong

The rule is that you must have been born in the country, have lived there for at least two years prior to turning 18, or have a parent or grandparent who was born there.

Yes, otherwise these players couldn't represent France. Every single one of them has either at least one grandparent from the country they represent or had been born there.

​@@robs7163two years before 18 is way too short. They should apply something like staying in a country for 200 days within 10 consecutive years before 18, in some ways similar to how taxation or visa works for working adults. It's still too easy for some nations to mess around.

@@sususegar I just looked it up to make sure I was remembering it correctly and it turns out I was not quite. If you or your parents/grandparents are not born to a country, you must have been a resident of that country for at least five years if your residency began at age ten or older, or at least three years if that residency began at less than ten years. In addition, you must have a valid passport of the nation which you wish to represent. I also forgot to mention that you can also be eligible to represent a country if either of your parents are citizens of that country at the time of your birth - even if they were not born there.

@@sususegar in other words, if you and your immediate ancestors were not born to or citizens of a particular country, you must have lived in that country from before you turned 13 to be eligible for them

Did you even watch the video? The "ancestral link" part only applies to players representing countries they weren't born in. All those players have French NATIONALITY, not just citizenship. It would make no sense to force them to play for a country they might not even have been to in their lives.

@@MrJorge3010 it would make sense because they’re at French at all, only a piece of dirt says they’re French

The way I see it if you are born somewhere and spend your whole life there it's only normal you become a citizen of that country. Why should they only represent a country they have never set foot it?

To speak for myself, I wouldn't want Declan rice in the team, same with kane and grealish and every other English player eligible for Ireland. The reason people don't like Declan rice is because he played for us at senior level (and kissed the badge) before switching to England, and if you know the history between England and ireland, you can begin to understand why he gets so much hate.

He loves both ireland and England. Both are part of him so I really don't see why he as to hate one. People taking their politics and trying to makr it his problem.

@@lyndaek99except it literally was his problem for most of his life until it suddenly became beneficial to turn a blind eye.

Uh....it's relevant because that was what caused FIFA to change the rules?

@@anthonyfoco6396 So no other countries have been doing it before that? Matter of fact the current rules about ancestry makes it possible for some countries to stack up talent, as long as they can show some ancestor of a player who grew up with immigrant parents is eligible to represent their great grandfather's country.... And that my friend, is how you reach 2 World Cup finals in a row, 2018 & 2022.

@@oslonorway547Other countries have been doing it, Puskas for example played for Spain later in his career. He of course at least lived in the country, unlike the almost-Qataris, Fifa decided to step in at that point, so of course it is mentioned. Also it is not like you can go through medieval records to find the one ancestor you need to play for any country you want to, grandparents are the furthest generation you are allowed to go back to and from all the players France used in the final 2022 just two were not born in France. One of them is Thuram, whos dad played for France and was born there, it just so happened that Marcus Thuram was born while his dad played for Parma, so the family temporarily lived there. This leaves Camaving who was born in Angola to Congolese parents but lived in France since the age of two. It’s up to you whether you think that he should be eligible for France, I absolutely think so, since he probably doesn’t even have any memory from before they moved to France where he was raised but claiming that France abuses the system on any significant scale is just wrong.

@@BeWe1510 France isn't abusing it, they deserve it. Countries should be able to give citizenship to anyone as far as they meet the requirements for earning citizenship like any other regular person. And anyone who gains citizenship through the standard requirement (not fast tracking or exceptional routes), and hasn't played for any other country before, should be allowed to play for their new country. The current system is causing lots of talent to go to waste. Imagine how many Peles, Puskas and Messis aren't discovered internationally because they come from a corrupt country that won't give them international playing time, but it's too late to leave to become eligible elsewhere. For example the entire Nigerian national team is made up of England rejects who quickly pledged allegiance before they are too old, and while there they have to pay exorbitant bribes and continuous Mafia money to the federation from their annual club salaries, just to be part of that country's National team in tournaments. It was either that, or never play international football ever. Til this day you have young players "refusing to decide yet what country to represent," but actually it just means they're waiting for the better country to call them up. By the time they are past their peak, they rush to beg and bribe their parents country to play international football, for example the Inaki Williams at Athletic Bilbao who was better than his younger brother at the same age, but didn't play for Spain and now he is aging had to return to beg Ghana to play in Qatar. Meanwhile his younger brother already tasted World Cup games as a high school teenager for Spain.

@@BeWe1510 You forgot the a in Eduardo's surname. It's Camavinga, not Camaving. Other than that, everything else you said was spot on.