From: Abubakr on
Regulations need to come in to stop established professionals from
changing nationalities. One way to do this would be to have any player
registering a professional contract nominate his/her nationality and
that nationality stays with the player for life and cannot be changed.
This still allows juniors to choose between countries that they would
like to represent in international football but it stops third rate
(and at time even first and second rate) Brazilians and the odd
Argentine from playing for the likes of Croatia, Portugal, Germany,
Italy etc...

From: El Kot on
Abubakr wrote:
> Regulations need to come in to stop established professionals from
> changing nationalities. One way to do this would be to have any player
> registering a professional contract nominate his/her nationality and
> that nationality stays with the player for life and cannot be changed.
> This still allows juniors to choose between countries that they would
> like to represent in international football but it stops third rate
> (and at time even first and second rate) Brazilians and the odd
> Argentine from playing for the likes of Croatia, Portugal, Germany,
> Italy etc...

I totally disagree. You're full of it. Fie!

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From: Abubakr on
On May 14, 2:02 pm, El Kot <nono.black.e...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Abubakr wrote:
> > Regulations need to come in to stop established professionals from
> > changing nationalities. One way to do this would be to have any player
> > registering a professional contract nominate his/her nationality and
> > that nationality stays with the player for life and cannot be changed.
> > This still allows juniors to choose between countries that they would
> > like to represent in international football but it stops third rate
> > (and at time even first and second rate) Brazilians and the odd
> > Argentine from playing for the likes of Croatia, Portugal, Germany,
> > Italy etc...
>
>      I totally disagree. You're full of it. Fie!

You are entitled to your opinion but at least be man enough to give
reasons for your disagreement instead of offering gratuitous and
chickenshit ad hominem remarks.
From: The Scrutineer on


"Abubakr" <deltarasha(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:0eacae1f-1188-421b-a25b-7ec767970423(a)11g2000prv.googlegroups.com...
> Regulations need to come in to stop established professionals from
> changing nationalities. One way to do this would be to have any player
> registering a professional contract nominate his/her nationality and
> that nationality stays with the player for life and cannot be changed.
> This still allows juniors to choose between countries that they would
> like to represent in international football but it stops third rate
> (and at time even first and second rate) Brazilians and the odd
> Argentine from playing for the likes of Croatia, Portugal, Germany,
> Italy etc...
>

I agree totally with that, with one slight alteration, you may select all
nationalities (mother/father/birth/citizenship) when you sign a contract,
for obvious reasons, and can get called up by any one of those countries,
obviously choosing one at your discretion when asked, because you may have a
scenario where you are half Maltese and half Italian for instance, select
Italy for obvious reasons, though still being a hard decision, never play
for them, but regret it 10 years later when you notice Malta asked for your
Nationality status. but cannot represent them of a decision you made which
was kind of too hard line Your obvious response is BAD LUCK, but you were
never given the opportunity of flexibility which you definitely would have
taken by selecting both Malta and Italy!!!

What you think!!!

From: El Kot on
Abubakr wrote:
> On May 14, 2:02 pm, El Kot <nono.black.e...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Abubakr wrote:
>>> Regulations need to come in to stop established professionals from
>>> changing nationalities. One way to do this would be to have any player
>>> registering a professional contract nominate his/her nationality and
>>> that nationality stays with the player for life and cannot be changed.
>>> This still allows juniors to choose between countries that they would
>>> like to represent in international football but it stops third rate
>>> (and at time even first and second rate) Brazilians and the odd
>>> Argentine from playing for the likes of Croatia, Portugal, Germany,
>>> Italy etc...
>> I totally disagree. You're full of it. Fie!
>
> You are entitled to your opinion but at least be man enough to give
> reasons for your disagreement instead of offering gratuitous and
> chickenshit ad hominem remarks.

There's no chickenshit or ad hominem; I'm just disgusted by your
proposal (not by you personally, but still, as carrier of such
disgusting ideas...). If you can't see why your proposal is totally
disgusting and evil, I can't help you. Again, don't take it personally -
I'm disgusted by your ideas, not by you.

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