Fifa to review rules over player nationality

Dempsey

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/9475788.stm

Fifa will consider a proposal to relax the rules on the naturalisation of players at its annual Congress.

Personally, I think they are too relaxed as it is and far too many players jumping through loopholes for the sake of their careers than trying to represent the country that they feel they are from.

Other alarming intentions from FIFA is the passing of the rule that allows them to change referee's for any match they deem the referee "not qualified" enough.

Fr Tod Umptious

Dempsey wrote: »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/9475788.stm

Fifa will consider a proposal to relax the rules on the naturalisation of players at its annual Congress.

Personally, I think they are too relaxed as it is and far too many players jumping through loopholes for the sake of their careers than trying to represent the country that they feel they are from.

Other alarming intentions from FIFA is the passing of the rule that allows them to change referee's for any match they deem the referee "not qualified" enough.

As always it looks like this has a lot to do with money and opening up new markets for FIFA

Making it easier to represent a country helps the cash rich countries like Qatar build a team of foreigners and thus be more competitive on the international stage.

OhNoYouDidn't

This will have relatively little effect, as you generally need to be resident 5 years in a country to gain citizenship.

Neil3030

Football's governing body will consider a suggestion that a player over the age of 18 need only live in a new country for three rather than the current five years before he can play for its national team.

Wow! Just in time for the 2014 World Cup! What an unbelievable coincidence!!

newballsplease

you might see Jermane Pennant moving to Qatar!

Fr Tod Umptious

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

This will have relatively little effect, as you generally need to be resident 5 years in a country to gain citizenship.

Not necessarily, a country can always fast track these things or waive the rules when the 'right' applicant come along.

A bit like Ireland gave passports for cash in 90s

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It will hardly affect the Irish set up would it?

no players playing here are called up to the national team under Trappatoni anyway.

So international football becomes club football for billionaires to play with? Well done FIFA.

Neil3030

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So international football becomes club football for billionaires to play with? Well done FIFA.

Essentially. Mix money with anything and you'll eventually see its soul ripped out.

Next logical step is for players to be permitted limitless transfers from country to country, all in the interest of acknowledging the rapid diversification of contemporary society or some such lark.

Kolo, Yaya and Adebayor lining up for Qatar some day - don't for one second rule it out.

Pauleta

I believe in the 5 year residency rule but they really have to get rid of the granny rule. Its too open to abuse.

OhNoYouDidn't

Deleted User wrote: »

So international football becomes club football for billionaires to play with? Well done FIFA.

So why did they bring in the rules to stop billionaires (Quatar) dishing out passports in the first place?

Like it or not, a player who has lived in a country for 2 or 5 years and has a passport has far more moral right to play for their adoptive country than somone who has never even been to their new country and qualifies through a bloodline they were unaware they had.

Chucky the tree

Neil3030 wrote: »

Essentially. Mix money with anything and you'll eventually see its soul ripped out.

Next logical step is for players to be permitted limitless transfers from country to country, all in the interest of acknowledging the rapid diversification of contemporary society or some such lark.

Kolo, Yaya and Adebayor lining up for Qatar some day - don't for one second rule it out.

So you think Kolo, Yaya and Adebayor would be happy to play in the Qatar league for 3 years just so they can line up for Qatar at the world cup?:pac:

OhNoYouDidn't

Neil3030 wrote: »

Kolo, Yaya and Adebayor lining up for Qatar some day - don't for one second rule it out.

But FIFA moved away from the passport only rule specifically to stop Quatar playing Ailton and a raft of Brazilians.

They are tinkering round the edges of that rule now.

This is one conspiracy theory too far.

Neil3030

Chucky the tree wrote: »

So you think Kolo, Yaya and Adebayor would be happy to play in the Qatar league for 3 years just so they can line up for Qatar at the world cup?:pac:

Yup. If the money is right.

Helix

Neil3030 wrote: »

Kolo, Yaya and Adebayor lining up for Qatar some day - don't for one second rule it out.

apart from the fact that theyve already been capped for another international team? i only skimmed the article, but there was no mention of changing the rules to let competitively capped players switch nation?

eoin2nc

Pauleta wrote: »

I believe in the 5 year residency rule but they really have to get rid of the granny rule. Its too open to abuse.

Irish constitution guarantees citizenship to anyone that has a grnadparent with an Irish passport, its a legal right. Would it be fair or resonable to deny someone who has citizenship from playing for their country?

Neil3030

Helix wrote: »

apart from the fact that theyve already been capped for another international team? i only skimmed the article, but there was no mention of changing the rules to let competitively capped players switch nation?

Read all my post, dude:

Next logical step is for players to be permitted limitless transfers from country to country, all in the interest of acknowledging the rapid diversification of contemporary society or some such lark.

OhNoYouDidn't

eoin2nc wrote: »

Irish constitution guarantees citizenship to anyone that has a grnadparent with an Irish passport, its a legal right. Would it be fair or resonable to deny someone who has citizenship from playing for their country?

Yes, because it was abused by Quatar handing out 11 passports to Brazilians.

Its a well established principal as a result of that affair that to play for a country you must have two sets of boxes ticked:

1: Citizenship of that country
2: Comply with FIFA requirements.

Those requirements are currently that you either have had to live in that country 5 uninterrupted years, have a parent, grandparent or spouse from that country.

At the moment its very possible to have 1 or 2 ticked and not the other.

All FIFA are doing is tinkering round the edges of 2. It really isn't a big deal.

smokedeels

International football is in a sorry state.