7 Footballers Who 'Discovered' New Nationalities
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- From Ben Brereton's fabulous recent transformation from an England youth team international to a senior Chile international, to Premier League full-back Matty Cash recently declaring for Poland, HITC Sevens takes a look at some of football's more unusual nationality switches.
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As a rovers fan the difference in Brereton since he started playing for Chile is insane and shows what confidence can do for a player
adding Diaz to his name made him better
@@hoze1235 imagine what adding dinho would do to him
@@hoze1235 hopefully our defence all become diaz’ aswell
Breretondinho
@@dackszn5690 hahah
The story on Ben Brereton is madness. The lack of confidence he had before lockdown, to now going to play for Chile.. crazy story. As a rovers fan, we are loving it - the influx of Chilean support for rovers and enjoying watching him at international level. Crazy how football manager made a difference!
Really can’t believe how football manager can change the world of football. Another favorite story about fm is firmino to hoffenheim
Let's go Rovers a new supporter ftom Chile!!
My son plays for a category 3 academy and is a real good footballer. I doubt he’ll ever get the call from the 3🦁s and nor from Spain (his mother’s nationality).
He could get the call from Argentina and Chile (one great grandparent from each country) but they’re great teams as well!
So I came up with a solution!
My grandfather was born in Rwanda!
His father worked there for a Belgian company for a year.
I sure hope he’ll be good enough for their national team!!!
Go Rwanda 🇷🇼
As a Rovers fan for 50 years:
1. I never for one moment ever expected that I would have such an interest in following the Chilean national team, and
2. I love the fact that any highlights of Rovers' matches on CZcams are followed by a comments section that is 50% written in Spanish!
@O.G FORT oh no… it was a Belgian colony. Many decades ago. The Belgians were very cruel to the locals who are such lovely people.
What's crazy to me is that Brereton is still 22
I thought he was about 27 years old
Just looking at his pictures I thought he was 35 😂
As an Arsenal fan I clearly remember him in his early days when he literally fucked Mertersacker
Who knew Ben Brereton could become different class just by adding Diaz to his name, he is like a footballer equivalent of Clark Kent
And now his name makes him sound like a real football player - not a bricklayer
"Ben Brereton" to the tune of this song czcams.com/video/u3wrsiIwOIM/video.html
@@Ese96Agoaye Can't quite shape the opening lyrics but here's how the bridge might sound 0:49
_Ben Brereton Diaz, come dine with me. I'll treat you to sunday roast with asado & chicha beer.
Ben Brereton Diaz, you are the goat. You take on every shape and size to drive them home_
@Red eyed Wolf he already has a goal this season
Diaz is from his mum. That's how naming works in Latin countries. Most don't usually use the matrinymic everyday, but their name officially does.
He's not Matty Cash, he's Mateusz Gotówka🇵🇱🦅🇵🇱🦅🇵🇱🦅
cashowski
Matek Gotówka
🇵🇱 🦅
~ "The Sun"
What's wrong in him playing for his mother's country 🇵🇱
It's a shame I was never any good at football growing up, I'd be eligible to represent the mighty Gibraltar.
Eh. You’re probably good enough for Gibraltar anyways
Are you a waiter?
@@stone5048 yeah I was going to say, that might not rule him out
@@eddixon2015 I've been at San Marino's level since 10 lol
ay mate were in the same boat kinda. Im german but Im actually eligible to play for san Marino through my grandfather haha. I would call myself a half decent footballer and it was always my dream to play for them once or at least at youth level. Well, obviusly didnt work out, the San Marinese is also pretty notorious for not being very open to "outsiders".
I was just researching for my video about when Ailton (Brazilian football player from Werder Bremen) was approached by Qatar to switch his nationality for $1.4 Millions per year, despite having never lived in Qatar. That made FIFA tighten the rules to prevent these cases. Lovely video as always ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
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Good luck mate...Can't wait for it♥️♥️
Dude was still a beast at a old age , he played for my uncles Sunday league team and he would just dominate all game 😂
Mans out here begging it on someone else's video with no shame whatsoever 🤣🤣 TRYHARD FOOL
@@bobbybobstar1496 it's a comment regarding the topic of the video. If you don't agree with it, that's your prerogative
Should have included Lapadula. Same story as Brereton pretty much, Italian all the way but Peruvian mother. Someone on Facebook (at least that’s what I heard happened) discovered him when he blew up in Serie B. He got called up to the Italian NT first, and at one point was nearly considered a traitor here. Everyone laughed at him because his motivation was to go to the World Cup, which Peru did and Italy didn’t. But a few years down the line, he was nowhere near a call up from Italy, so he decided to just get Peruvian citizenship and play for the NT. He hasn’t starred as much as Brereton but my god, due to how popular he is you’d think he’s Jesus reincarnated. At first there was some sympathy towards him since no one ever passed him the ball, and he started fighting for every ball like if it was his goal in life. This gained him quite a bit of love, and he was pretty loved already. His popularity skyrocketed after a game against Ecuador in Quito, which is pretty darn high and there’s much less oxygen. Most players chicken out and just don’t run in order to not get exhausted, but Lapadula ran all 90 minutes after the ball and gave 2 assists to give us a vital win. And after challenging for the golden boot in the Copa America, he’s nearly reached national hero status.
Yeah he's tremendous as well. Sadly for you guys he's a bit in the older side. Enjoy him!
@@dariogutierrez6716 He’s Jesus reincarnated, he could be 2000 years old and we’d still pick him
I also mentioned him on twitter. one fun thing to add to the story: back when he was wanted by the peruvian FA he preferred to play for italy and "allegedly" wanted to make a deal that he has to be the main striker and asked for a guaranteed place in the starting 11 ahead of captain paolo guerrero. this didn't go well with many fans and the rest is history...
but in the end everyone can be happy I guess. he is playing well, the fans went to the world cup and watched italy fail PLUS they have a great striker now. everything worked out well in the end^^
@@frankunodostres473 Yeah such a turnaround. From nearly hated to a joke to a national hero.
I remember his tattoo that caused a lot of controversy because a lot of people thought he messed up and got a Mexican/Aztec warrior when in reality it is a typical costume from his mum’s town.
That pic of Matty Cash’s Polish ID card killed me, Gotowka in Polish literally means cash or money😂😂😂
I love how Brereton got discovered. I remembered how a lot of Filipinos playing in England got discovered thru the game and one of them became our all time top scorer. Fun times.
Edit: it’s Phil Younghusband. Him and his brother James did a lot to the national team.
Phil Younghusband? Always signed him from Chelsea in Football manager back in the day, and his brother James
Phil Younghusband is also the Philippines' most capped player. 52 goals and 108 caps for the Philippines.
Also Neil Etheridge
ah yes the younghusband bros, i remember his brother james also eventually being called up and representing the pinoys
And i think player like Areola is philphime
I love how random Ben Brereton’s story is. Born in Stoke, playing in Blackburn ends up representing Chile
My favorite is Maik Taylor. Born in West Germany to an English father and German mother, the family moved to Southhampton where Maik grew up. He spent most of his career in the first division/championship. He was nowhere near good enough to play for England or Germany but the home nations rules made him eligible for N Ireland where he won nearly 90 caps!
Knew this was gonna come out after the Matty Cash debut 😂
Yes, always recall Chris Birchall playing against England in the world cup. Trinidad & Tabago had a decent side.
Tony Cascarino's story was an interesting one. Played for Ireland as his Maternal Grandfather was Irish, but found out in his mid 20's that his mum was actually adopted, so there was no bloodline back to Ireland at all. at that point he'd already been to a world cup with Ireland, and it was too late to look back! 😂
I've just left a very similar comment!
Thanks for the mention! The story of Ben Brereton Díaz is a crazy story that has only just begun! #Vamos
Spain have also been pretty guilty of naturalising players and then selecting them for the national team - obviously there's historic examples like Di Stefano and Puskas. But there's more recent examples such as Marcos Senna, Diego Costa or Aymeric Laporte
Can you fault them though, especially for the Laporte case?
@@morehbein6207 It's absolutely ridiculous that he wasn't capped until he was 27 years old!
The Di Stefano and Puskas case were fully political, esp. with such a looser law before. Whilst Marcos Senna and Diego Costa were actually normal (same with Liedson in Portugal)
@@morehbein6207 I don't get why Deschamps kept picking Kimpembé instead
The first two have strong ethnic and cultural ties to Spain, while Laporte lived practically all of his life in Spain. Many of us actually thought Laporte was Spaniard when watching him play on the B teams. I remember going like "whaaat he's not 'la-porte" but 'lapoght'?".
So it's not a "bad" use of second citizenship. It simply that latin americans are culturally and ethnically linked with Spain, and some people live their entire lives in a different country.
Not exactly the highest profile example of a weird one, I would like to introduce the Singapore National Team's Mirko Grabovac.
Born in then-Yugoslavia, Grabovac moved to Singapore after primarily playing in the lower leagues of Croatian football in 1999. After a pretty promising start in the S-League (which is a pretty rubbish league, mind you), where he was top scorer for his first 2 seasons, Grabovac was drafted into the national team as part of what was known as the "foreign talent scheme". He won 12 caps and scored no goals, despite having ended his career after 226 goals in 239 appearances in the S-League (Singapore are one of the big whipping boys of Asian football after all). He then renounced his citizenship to return to his native Croatia.
Interestingly, he returned to Singapore as head coach of his former club in 2018, a move that was met with disapproval, having previously renounced his citizenship a decade prior. He lasted a single season, before having been sent pack back to his home nation.
Great story. See also Alex Duric, the Bosnian-Australian-Singaporean.
2000's Singapore is probably king of Southeast Asia, we in Vietnam lost to them so many times that left us devastated for years :)
Malaysia has a guy from Kosovo in their national team at this moment. Forgot his name tho.
@@EagleEye517 Liridon Krasniqi. Malaysia also has a Gambian and a Brazilian in the team, Mohamadou Soumareh and Guilleherme De Paula
@@EagleEye517 now they have dion cools
Think you missed Rogelio Funes Mori. Was denied for years to switch to Mexico because be was capped with Argentina. Don't think he has any ties to Mexico. Just played for Monterrey and became Mexican. Funny that he plays for Mexico and his TWIN brother plays for Argentina lol
Born in Argentina, grew up in the US, plays for Mexico
Lucas Zelarayan is a more recent example of this, switching from Argentina to Armenia
What?
@@jairmorales2017 Yep, both Him and Briasco, currently on Boca, switched to Armenia, but both have Armenian family members. I think Briasco's grandmother and Zelarrayan's grandparents
Lmao imagine choosing Armenia over Argentina
@@slurpii4669 He wasn’t coming close to the Argentina squad. He’s 29. If he was going to be selected, it would’ve already happened. But with Argentina’s offense, he had no chance
@@jasontakhtadjian oh now it makes sense, thanks for the context
There has also been a very interesting call-up to the Bulgarian U21 national team recently. Sylvester Jasper, an Englishman who’s eligible to play for Nigeria but who has represented England at youth levels and currently plays for Colchester(on loan from Fulham), was recently called up to the Bulgarian U21 national team due to his mother hailing from a Bulgarian city.
So his mother was Bulgarian, which would offer dual nationality...
@@mintywebb "from a bulgarian city" so what, ur only bulgarian if you are from the countryside? Lol
@@krumkrum476 Bulgaria didn't have city, they live on horse like their ancestors in Mongolia
@@MasonGreenWeed lol source?
Ben becoming a hero for Chile incredible
Hello Alfie!
Just a quick note: Luìs Monti was an Argentinian international before joining our national team (just like Raimundo Orsi), so he actually was on the losing side in 1930...
Anyhow (or I should say, Eddie Howe), it looks like another very interesting video!
exactly! He's the one that infamously said that he would have been killed if he would have won the world cup 1930 or lost it in 1934...
As far as I know it seems that Yunus Musah was born in New York City when his Ghanaian mother was on vacation. Grew up in Italy and then England but cose to represent the USA. He was born in the USA but it was a pretty lucky coincidence he was born there (as a US fan)!
Could have represented England, Italy or Ghana
Number 1: any half decent Irish player finding out they're English or any shite English player finding out they're Scottish 🤔
RIP Irish Guy
Che Adams did once eat a Tunnock's Tea Cake, so he couldn't be more Scottish.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 his family
@@ctid7037 His family what?
@@ianmacfarlane1241 he ate his family not that cake
Maik Taylor would be a great mention if you do another one of these. Born in Germany, qualified by the Home Nations rule and was Northern Ireland's first choice goalkeeper for 10 years
Often wondered about Maik. Did he have any familial connection to NI whatsoever? Or another Van Den Hauwe?
@@user-kk4zw5jo4t Stolen from Wikipedia "Taylor was born in Germany to an English father and a German mother. As a British citizen who was born abroad, FIFA eligibility rules at the time of Taylor's first international selection entitled him to represent any of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom at international level. He opted for Northern Ireland, despite having no family connection to that country."
Wait, so me, as an American with an English parent and an Irish grandparent, can play for USA, England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Republic of Ireland?
As someone who's half Trinidadian, learning about Birchall was super cool. Glad to see my country represented, thanks for the video!
You can also pay attention to the case of Medhi Benatia, raised in France but later joined Morocco. Before joining the Moroccans, he was a graduate of France's elite football school, Clairefontaine.
And plenty more cases like Hakan Calhanoglu (Germany -> Turkey), Harry Souttar (Scotland -> Australia), Jorginho (Brazil -> Italy) or Kieffer Moore (England -> Wales). And all of them began to have some taste with it.
Are you the former Polish player?
The legend that is Birchall! Will never forget what he did for us to make the 06 world cup 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
"Me Mum"
Is that the cup where they drew England?
He's my friends dad 😂
Every time one of the Caribbean nations qualify for a world cup, every single non-capped black player in England suddenly changes nationality.
Would say every English player who doesn't think they will get capped by England, declares for any other home nation until they get a sniff of playing for England, then change back.
Fact is, if you play in championship and are eligible for two countries, why deny opportunity to play international football hoping the England manager will pick you?
@@philwill0123 Actually it was more of the players who wait until X has qualified and then leaps at the opportunity to swap nationalities, having not actually bothered to help them get to the tournament to begin with.
Funny how they wait until a tournament is happening to suddenly find their roots
My son plays for a category 3 academy and is a real good footballer. I doubt he’ll ever get the call from the 3🦁s and nor from Spain (his mother’s nationality).
He could get the call from Argentina and Chile (one great grandparent from each country) but they’re great teams as well!
So I came up with a solution!
My grandfather was born in Rwanda!
His father worked there for a Belgian company for a year.
I sure hope he’ll be good enough for their national team!!!
Go Rwanda 🇷🇼
That s not good enough. He needs to have a granparent born there not a great grandparent
@@footballstats9127 what about Gibraltar then? England + Spain?…
They’ll take him for sure. Let’s say he’ll play in League 2 or maybe even 1, that’s an amazing footballer for Gibraltar
@@Ron.S. i doubt any english footballer can just play for gibraltar
@@footballstats9127 I checked… you must study there 5 years as a child…
Millwall wants him (at least a category 2) but his rubbish League 2 team wants £9000 for him! He’s just a young teenager. They will never pay it. And I won’t drive one hour to south London.
Van Den Hauwe rejected the Belgium call up when it became clear it meant he had to do his military service if he accepted. Imagine Belgium in the 80s with Van Den Hauwe on left back and Eric Gerets on right back ...
That's actually correct. At the time, Belgium had compulsory military service (they don't now) and, given he was born in East Flanders, Van Den Hauwe was definitely eligible. However, according to his book, which is an excellent read by the way - and I say this as someone who supports the red half of Merseyside - he turned down Belgium because of that reason and the fact he was part of Everton's greatest ever team, which he definitely didn't want to miss out on winning the league and the European Cup Winners Cup by doing a year of square bashing in Flemish.
Pat still works for The Blues to this day having resettled on Merseyside.
Some people just 'feel' Jamaican.
It looks bad on the Jamaican Federation too as he played for Jamaica without showing any proof.
Inter Miami had a player declare for Chile this year bc of his mom (he’s from South Carolina) and get called up. Then the day before the match he changed his mind and went back to Miami.
As a chilean I can't say I blame them, but he would've been a good addition to our attack. Hope he changes his mind and comes back later, but I don't think it will happen
@@stateofgrace2786 I think he's struggling mentally as his club form absolutely dropped off a cliff after that saga w Chile
@@stateofgrace2786 I don't think he would have been good enough for Chile anyway. The Championship has a higher level than the MLS.
Great video man, I love these stories. Keep it up ⭐️🥇
I have not played for a different nation as my call up for St. Vincent and the Grenadines unfairly still hasn't arrived at this point. However I still suggest:
Day 23: Top 7 protest clubs (FC United of Manchester, AFC Liverpool).
Can we find you on transfermarkt?
Atp should be able to walk right into the starting xi...
thought i was replying to someone else's comment, my apologies
@@skoczek777 I'm not even playing football the country is just a meme for my channel XD
Joy to watch Brereton’s improvement since becoming Brereton Diaz
Imagine brereton goes to the world cup with chile
Imagine he doesn't.😂😂
Watching the Chilean announcers trying to pronounce "Brereton" is very amusing. His name has an emphasis on the wrong syllable and un-Spanish pronunciations of R and B and on top of that, a schwa that doesn't exist in Spanish.
I mean British announcers do the same thing all the time with Hispanic names
@@___________________. Not just Hispanic names, pretty much anything that isn’t British
@@djsilversun for real
@@djsilversun no shit, literally every other country does the exact same thing
Yeah, but Spanish only has a couple sounds that don't work in English and the British announcers are usually pretty good at them. Some of the worse American announcers can get pretty and tho.
Great video, I'm glad the only mention of Ireland and Northern Ireland was an adopted Canadian
Yunus Musah is a very interesting story. He was born in New York while his mother was there on vacation, grew up in Italy, and England, and has absolutely no ties to the US.
Born in the US. Enough said! What other ties do you want?
@@RoM-po5md Do you even understand what we're discussing here?
@@RoM-po5md On a VACATION u know, i know that a person who was born in the us is recognized as an american in general, no exceptions, but it is pretty weird to play for a country just because you was born in there and there are no connections with that country
@@mantagegrullin it isn't weird at all. Alot of countries do this. They have been for years.
In Chile we love Brereton !!!
😎👌🏼👌🏼
Outstanding as always!
i would love a part 2, this kind of stuff really interests me.
0:08Luis Monti played for Argentina in 1930, not Uruguay
Honest mistake, given Uruguay is an Argentinian province
Obviously we need a part 2.
Glad you mention Ben '10' Brereton. In Chile we love him even when he didn't even speak spanish, and now is one of the top goalscorers in the Championship thanks to his confidence. We could have another chilean descendant playing for the team called Robbie Robinson, but at the last minute he decided to go back to USA and his carrer come to decline, unlike Brereton who plays 100% for a country which he never lived but felt like home
Maybe in a future part 2 you need to mention Gianluca Lapadula, born in Italy but peruvian descendant, he played for the Italy B Team to later decide to play for Peru in 2021, and like Brereton in Peru they love him
Bro Robinson was the #1 pick in the MLS draft after attending university. Not bad. Look at someone like Cyle Larin for how high the ceiling can be
David Regis played every minute for the USA at the 98 World Cup. IMO, he'd married an American and therefore, there was nothing shady about his being there.
Right 😉
Owen Hargreaves was a shout!!
Surprised Tony Cascarino didnt even get a mention
We need to hear about all 50! This is a brilliant video
Love to see a part 2
Marcio aurelio was born in brasil in 2007 i think he changed his name to mehmet and did get the turkish passwort, he played a key role on the euro 2008 run. He did play like 8 years in turkey.
That’s very impressive playing international football at only a year old lol born on 2007 but playing in the euros in 2008
@@timsmith1323 nah bro that is a other sentences haha
@@murat7176 that makes zero sense dude you’ve put he was born in 2007 and played at the 2008 euros that’s a year apart
@@timsmith1323 amk in 2007 he changed his passport to a turkish one
@@timsmith1323 The full stop goes between "brasil" and "in"
I had the occasion to briefly interview David Regis in 1999 after a USNMT practice during Bruce Arena's first reign with the squad. One of the main issues the squad had with him was that he was pretty much monolingual in French, and no one in the Yanks set up spoke it at all.
Another stellar video
Good to see Birchy on here. A Vale lad and I went to school with him.
This content is the reason I subscribe
Alfie, If you do a part 2 you should include Joe Gaetjens. Played 3 games for the US at the 1950 world cup and scored the winner against England despite not being a US citizen and having played for the Haiti national team before (and after) his US caps. Could actually probably make a pretty interesting 7 from just US players
@Insert Name Here would be a great topic for Alfie
Not only that, he ended up back in Haiti where he was kidnapped and murdered by François Duvalier's secret police "Les Tontons Macoutes" Bizarre, tragic story
I’m so glad you made this video Alfie. As someone who is eligible for 3 different nations myself, I found this truly fascinating. Shame I’m dross at football and have no chance to actually pull a Chris Birchall
We want a Part-2 of this video
The Van Den Hauwe reason was one I was aware of. Having been born in Germany to English parents I knew that I could represent any home nation (and Germany) when I was younger.
I mean, I say "could", but that ignores the fact that I am really, really bad at football, but you get the point.
Ty: Bellingham will do bits for the German national team.
Yes he will be a great squad player who never plays. (there are already gündogan and goretzka in his position)
@@zirbto5749 Gündogan is 31, he’s not going to be around forever.
jude bellingham has already had his first cap for england
@@joefuller1207 why not stay with England far better chance to get into the first team
@@mattwebb7984 he can still switch allengencies since he's under 21 and has less than 3 caps. Ruling came in last year by Fifa.
Paulino Alcantara also played at 3 national teams: Spain, Catalunya,The Philippines
I think this needs more parts in future, interesting one :)
Fascinating video, great research as usual. I say, has Alfie done an Ireland XI ☘️, if everyone eligible played?
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Lol the David Regis thing was hilarious. Considering it took my aunt 15 years to get approved for immigration to the USA.
That's cause the US isn't benefitting from your aunt
Excellent video as usual, Alfie. If I was ever good enough to play international football - which I am clearly not and besides I'm too old - I could have represented Canada, having been born there, any one of the four Home countries through holding a UK passport and having grown up in North Wales, Ireland through my mother and France through my paternal grandfather who was originally from Brittany.
Malouda case is different. French Guyana is a French department. Malouda was born there and grew up there until his late teens. So he can represent French Guyana...he didn't discovered a new nationality by playing for French Guyana since there is no French Guyana passport. He is French.
This happens in other sports, and IMHO, once you've pulled on a shirt to represent a country at any level, you shouldn't be able to suddenly switch country. And I do include Jack Grealish in this, even though I think he's a great player and he was amazing when he played for us as young kid.
He should never have played for Ireland I the first place. Its like Roy Keane playing for England.
@@singalexsong he played GAA as a kid, it’s not like his family had no Irish ties
Day 26: Best non-FIFA affiliated national teams
The Basque Country, Martinique, Catalonia
@@brohdez8857 exactly
you should check out the Funes Mori bros, the set of identical twins that play for different nations :s
I don't know if there's enough, but 7 brothers who played for different national teams would be good. Jerome and Kevin-Prince Boateng and Alex and Christian Roldan are the only other two examples I can think of.
Sheeeet! Ben Brereton and Matty Cash. Both involved in a quality performance for Forrest against Arsenal a few years ago, 2017/17ish i think, and knew both should have good careers. Young lads and gave a great show of themselves that day.
As a Brentford fan I remember watching Nico Yennaris play a few years ago, and he switched his name to Li Ke and internationality to China and became the first naturalised player to play for China
I remember that kid, came from Arsenal. Think he was Cypriot of something back then.
4:21 wait what’s with the caption? England did win the U19 Euros with Brereton top scorer and Mount player of the tournament.. I remember it was the year that England won like 3 youth tournaments(should do a video on it) signs of what was to come with the senior side reaching the Euros final this year
They also didn't play Spain in that final. They played Portugal (and won, as you said)
A player for the german third division i forgot his name something like manuel fröhlich he did play gor chemnitz i think. He played in the last african nations cup for namibia
Please do a part 2 🙏
I was under the impression that Jack Charlton was the main instigator of this when he managed Ireland with his use of the 'Granny Rule', though a lot of other countries, like Scotland, quickly caught up.
Wasn't John Barnes playing for England before that?
@@mintywebb Before Jack Charlton took over Ireland?
Yeah, Barnes first cap was in '83, while Big Jack took over Ireland in '86.
There were certainly a number of players playing internationally in that capacity, however Jack Charlton ran with it.
Not that I'm criticising him, or Ireland, as the rule was there - he was just the first manager who really went with it.
Everyone does it to an extent - the big, powerful countries might do less of it, but everyone is happy to use the rule.
Surprisingly, I'm Scottish, and I'd love to see a strong Scotland team featuring 11 Scotsmen, (however you want to define nationality) but we're struggling even with the rule in place.
It is still the case today but Irish nationality rules extend to having a grandparent born in either Northern Ireland or the Republic. Therefore, a lot of Jack's team qualified through eithe rhaving a parent who was Irish or a grandparent in the case of, say , John Aldridge, who was Irish. I think it applies to all nationalities but I may be wrong. Certainly, Scotland and Wales have players who have grandparents who are Scottish or Welsh but were born in England. Also, in the case of Wales - and especially North East Wales - the nearest maternity hospital is in Chester. Which, of course, is in England.
Remember when everyone wanted Almunia as England goalie 🤣🤣
arteta could've played for England aswell as nzogbia
Cudicini as well
Enjoyed the video, although you did give honourable mention to half of the duo I want to make a case for, I believe the double act nature as well as other aspects means Martin Boyle and Harry Souttar deserved a start. Boyle and Souttar were scouted by Australian manager Graham Arnold, both from Scotland and both having never set foot in the country. Boyle had slightly gone off on his young career and had been loaned to Hibs for the year they won the cup, being signed permanently after that in a major turning point in his career.
Souttar was still very young at 20/21, also Scottish and was about to break into the Stoke XI and was rumoured to move to numerous premier league clubs in the last summer. At 200cm tall, he is Australia's tallest ever outfield player and scored 2 headed goals from a stand still from corners on debut against the not so vertically endowed Nepalese players. Everton are reportedly very keen to replace Yerry Mina with Souttar once they can shuffle him on (when his contract runs out) as the Scottish Australian is better in the air and much more calm and accomplished playing out from the back. This is no doubt in some way because of Australian national teams of the last 10-15 years religiously playing out from the back despite giving up plenty in talent to some of their opposition.
Martin Boyle has blossomed and is now regularly leading the SPL in successful take ons and was the early front runner for the golden boot playing on the wing for Hibs. The two of them are regularly in the top 3 or 4 performers for Australia and if not for Graham Arnold striking early with Scotland still looking like also rans for major tournaments, whilst Australia had made every world cup since 2006, made the QF, SF, been runners up and winners of the AFC Asian Cup. Neil Lennon was one figure trying to stop the defection as he saw it, claiming " these lads will bite us on the arse and do it quickly". 1 year into their successful Socceroos careers Scotland found a way to actually reach potential under Steve Clark, fitting Tierney and Robertson in the same lineup, Billy Gilmour and McGinn in midfield and somehow getting goals out of Lyndon Dykes, who ironically looked into Australian nomination due to living there and family ties, before being told not to waste his breath. ( Kieffer Moore of Wales fame tried the same trick with the same response).
Are these the only two players who would both stroll into the squad and probably the first XI of another nation with a 50% + chance of world cup qualification and almost scraped through to the knockout stages of the Euros? I can't imagine Brereton Diaz being the subject of an old fashioned saloon duel between Southgate and the Chilean gaffer, whereas Neil Lennon was right about one thing in the last 5 years, they've bitten the arse of Scotland quickly. I believe he now hates all things Australia, repeatedly stating Ange Postecoglou is doomed all the way until about 5 weeks ago when Celtic were humming and looking specials to reel in rangers.
Great to see a bit of information about our former Waterford FC manager Marc Bircham
Easily enough here for parts 2 & 3. I especially like the Tony Cascarino story of playing for Ireland due to an Irish parent before finding out he was adopted.
Thought it was his mother who was adopted?
Ireland holds the record for being the only country to have two teams in the world cup. During the conflict years in Ireland the North and South had two separate teams that both played qualifications matches and some players even played for both teams. It's a wild story.
There still is two separate teams, because Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are still two separate countries, both qualified for the same competition as recently as 2016 (euros). Anyone born on the island of Ireland as a whole can still to this day choose to represent either nation. That comes with a lot of baggage though.
Many Catholic players born in Northern Ireland choose to represent the Republic of Ireland as the Northern Irish football team is seen as institutionally Protestant and Catholic players over the years have suffered abuse and discrimination from both within the institution itself and also from the almost exclusively Protestant fan base of the Northern Irish football team, which has often been as extreme as legitimate death threats on not only the players themselves, but also their families as well and that is for simply choosing to represent the Northern Irish football team as a Catholic.
@@zimzimma5688 Only players born in the north can choose either. You can't play for the north if you're born in the Republic
@@killiansmyth9545 Yes you are right about that actually, my mistake.
My twitter comment of Boyle got mentioned! Him being interviewed as an Aussie is rather amusing but glad to have him.
Brereton is a Blessing 🇨🇱❤🌹
Stafford has made it to the big time of CZcams 🙌
This video could just be the entire Philippines national team (but then again, our laws do play fast and loose with dual citizenship, and we've got immigrants literally everywhere, so maybe the players' connections to the homeland aren't THAT tenous).
Or England cricket team...
LMAO I knew I’d see this mentioned somehow. Younghusband, Greatwich, Schröck, Reichelt, etc. But if they’re proud of their Filipino parent’s heritage and want to represent the country, why not right? Besides, Gilas basketball naturalizes players who actually don’t have ties to the PH fairly often. Most Azkals go through getting dual citizenship, only Maroñon is actually a naturalized player
Love this one, especially the Forest theme!
Martin Boyle played his first game for Australia in Australia this week, first time he had been in Australia
Should've included:
Janusz Michallik - born in Poland to Polish parents, 44 caps and 1 goal in the USA national team; almost drafted into WC1994 USA team
Emmanuel Olisadebe - born in Nigeria, not related to Poland at all, yet had 25 caps and 11 goals in the Poland national team (including a goal against USA during WC2002). He earned citizenship because his former club coach - Jerzy Engel - got a job as a national team coach and Engel wanted Oli as his main striker.
Janusz moved to the U.S. as a teenager, and Olisadebe was uncapped at junior level for Nigeria and became a naturalized Polish citizen.
When you're a South African Stoke City fan, who's rivals are Port Vale and all get mentioned in the video ❤
A south african that supports stoke, u must be lonely. Stoke lol Du u know other people that support them in south africa
How did you end up a Stoke fan in SA 🤔😅😂😂
Part 2 please!!!
I am extremely so happy to see these respective footballers playing for their respective countries and ever this trend must continue ever mainly in Europe,Africa,North and South Americas,good friends!!!:-D
Another one would be Josip Simunic. As a 17 year old chose to represent the Joeys as that was a requirement for the continuation of his Australian Institute of Sport scholarship. Bed and board 10 months of the year, equipment, sports science he could only dream of, flights and transport to international tournaments and training camps. This was due to his migrant parents struggling to provide anywhere near the institute's perks. Meanwhile his uncle had already organised a contract from the day of his 18th birthday with Red Star and papers to nominate for the Croatian national team after milking the Australian government for years.
In a lovely twist, he received 3, yes 3 , yellow cards and finally a red in the final group match of the 2006 WC against Australia. Croatia needed to win the game but to Josips disgust a 2-2 draw saw him eliminated with a dose of karma. He retired from international football never reaching the last 16 in a major FIFA competition unlike the 18 loyal players, many of whom he roomed with for 3 years 😜
Poll confused him with the Australian defender (Craig Moore) because of his Australian accent, hence he got the Yellow that shouldve went to Moore.
@@IHSpark7325 that was his first yellow card and was the excuse Poll offered as it was the biggest blunder of recent world cup history. Did the size, baldness and different shirt, not to mention that Moore has a Glaswegian accent from his long career in Rangers
As personally unpatriotic person I would take any national team that wants me to play for them.
I wouldnt consider myself patriotic at all but I support/would play for the national team for some reason. I think its just from growing up and that
So brereton is are guy like there was so much hype about this guy and the crazy thing is that he debuted against Argentina in the Copa America fast forward the guy is everybody favorite player.
When he learns to sing the national anthem I think people might cry and also he has a commercial with Pepsi
3 players in the current Australia squad first visited their"home" nation last week all have played multiple game's for the soccerroos
i think the Younghusband brothers of the Philippines should be here..
I thought Aymeric Laporte would be in this list, since he's such a great defender yet never got a cap for the French National Team, ended up transferring to the Spanish National Team just before the Euros, and even got Spain to go farther in the cup than France lol 😂 But I guess his case is not as strange as the other ones in the list lol
Exactly. Not as strange. He was born in the french portion of the Basque country, and grew up and became a professional footballer in Bilbao with Athletic, which only recruits pure Basque or basque-related players (which is his case), as you may already know
@@fabioorlando8787 funny how this "longstanding tradition" of recruiting French Basques began after the birth of my oldest grandson
@@Boredoutofmywits i didn't say they always recruited french basques, i said Bilbao always recruited pure basques or basque-related players, which includes french basques. Bixente Lizarazu played there in 1997, and nothing can prove he couldn't have played for Spain if the France national team didn't call him up. Just like what happened with Laporte
@@fabioorlando8787 they've done more tricks to pass players as "basque" (Even if thery were neither born ther nor raised there) that you can even imagine. Lizarazu was bought by president Arrate José María Arrate justyfing that it was "tradition" the first of a tradition in almost 100 years. A joke.
The Lucas Zelarayan shout out at the end made my day
Surprised Socceroo legend Tim Cahill wasn’t included in this video. At one stage he eligible to play for Soma, Ireland and England.