Wandsworth represent

comment by Blarmy - Haaland is inevitable (U14547)
posted 56 minutes ago
Callum was born in Wandsworth ffs and went to school in Croydon. I think its a little weird to go represent a country you havent lived in
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Does he know someone who lives in Cardiff maybe he can play for Wales

Those first 6 fixtures are a bit much ey

comment by Blarmy - Haaland is inevitable (U14547)
posted 9 minutes ago
Those first 6 fixtures are a bit much ey
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No... Smash into them head on

https://link.chelseafc.com/SSpXBmLh8gb
Here's a link from The 5th Stand, Chelsea FC's official app: Media Watch: Chelsea linked with Pedraza, Gallas calls Kante ‘the best player in the world’ and former Germany boss backs Werner

comment by Blarmy - Haaland is inevitable (U14547)
posted 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
Callum was born in Wandsworth ffs and went to school in Croydon. I think its a little weird to go represent a country you havent lived in
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Any person who holds multiple citizenships will tell you it’s possible to feel as part of the country your parent(s) are from just as much as the country you live in. If I was a footballer I’d be happy to represent Nigeria even though I’ve never lived there - why wouldn’t I?

Agree - CHO parents/larger societal group might have given him that feeling of cultural belonging

comment by Vorsprung durch Tuchel (U1641)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by Blarmy - Haaland is inevitable (U14547)
posted 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
Callum was born in Wandsworth ffs and went to school in Croydon. I think its a little weird to go represent a country you havent lived in
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Any person who holds multiple citizenships will tell you it’s possible to feel as part of the country your parent(s) are from just as much as the country you live in. If I was a footballer I’d be happy to represent Nigeria even though I’ve never lived there - why wouldn’t I?
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Yeah if Pakistan had a half decent team then I’d consider playing for them too

comment by CSTP (U1453)
posted 9 seconds ago
comment by Vorsprung durch Tuchel (U1641)
posted 15 minutes ago
comment by Blarmy - Haaland is inevitable (U14547)
posted 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
Callum was born in Wandsworth ffs and went to school in Croydon. I think its a little weird to go represent a country you havent lived in
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Any person who holds multiple citizenships will tell you it’s possible to feel as part of the country your parent(s) are from just as much as the country you live in. If I was a footballer I’d be happy to represent Nigeria even though I’ve never lived there - why wouldn’t I?
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Yeah if Pakistan had a half decent team then I’d consider playing for them too
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I would never represent east Korea

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comment by Vorsprung durch Tuchel (U1641)
posted 18 minutes ago
comment by Blarmy - Haaland is inevitable (U14547)
posted 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
Callum was born in Wandsworth ffs and went to school in Croydon. I think its a little weird to go represent a country you havent lived in
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Any person who holds multiple citizenships will tell you it’s possible to feel as part of the country your parent(s) are from just as much as the country you live in. If I was a footballer I’d be happy to represent Nigeria even though I’ve never lived there - why wouldn’t I?
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I disagree with all of you

Living in a country is a huge part of it for me, you arent representing a culture so much as cultures go across the somewhat arbitrary borders we have set up. You are representing a nation state which you should be an actual part of if you want to play sport for it

Id make a certain length of residency necessary for national team football

Would you make it the only necessity?

What plsses me off is that I'd be eligible to play for Canada in football because my English Grandad was born there yet I wouldn't be eligible for Canadian citizenship lol.

comment by NPE ★★ (U22521)
posted 14 minutes ago
Arsenal, City, Spurs and Liverpool in the first six games. Three of which are away.
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Couldn’t have got a worse start.

Will city have their A team tho

comment by tcw (U6489)
posted 9 minutes ago
Would you make it the only necessity?
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Nahs its an addition to the existing

comment by Blarmy - Haaland is inevitable (U14547)
posted 35 minutes ago
comment by Vorsprung durch Tuchel (U1641)
posted 18 minutes ago
comment by Blarmy - Haaland is inevitable (U14547)
posted 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
Callum was born in Wandsworth ffs and went to school in Croydon. I think its a little weird to go represent a country you havent lived in
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Any person who holds multiple citizenships will tell you it’s possible to feel as part of the country your parent(s) are from just as much as the country you live in. If I was a footballer I’d be happy to represent Nigeria even though I’ve never lived there - why wouldn’t I?
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I disagree with all of you

Living in a country is a huge part of it for me, you arent representing a culture so much as cultures go across the somewhat arbitrary borders we have set up. You are representing a nation state which you should be an actual part of if you want to play sport for it
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But you can be, or feel, an actual part of it even if you’ve never formally lived there, definitely. Even if not for you, but for others. Representing a national team tends to broadly align with citizenship rules for the country which I think is pretty reasonable. So many players represent countries different to where they grew up..not weird at all imo

Laporte representing Spain or even Emerson for Italy is one of the few cases where I think it’s ‘weird’ the player is representing that country. Where they’ve basically moved to the country as an adult and is fast tracked to represent the national team. But such I suppose loopholes like that have to exist the way the system works

Telegraph had an interesting article regarding all this, which I agree with.

#EURO2020 is the first true post-multinational tournament - & shows the rules are right.

Euro 2020 the stage for a new generation of multinational footballers

Fluid regulations allow players to switch allegiances, reflecting a necessary understanding of their ancestry which challenges nationalist themes associated with the international game, writes Miguel Delaney

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/euro-2020-dual-nationality-players-laporte-b1862004.html

I still meet people who who completely perplexed I have a passport/an a citizen of three countries.

Soz for more spam but again, interesting - From the available information, 175 of the 622 selected for Euro 2020 have dual nationality. As many as 23 of those possess triple nationality, with one - Wales’ Ethan Ampadu - having been eligible for four countries.

comment by Vorsprung durch Tuchel (U1641)
posted 32 minutes ago
comment by Blarmy - Haaland is inevitable (U14547)
posted 35 minutes ago
comment by Vorsprung durch Tuchel (U1641)
posted 18 minutes ago
comment by Blarmy - Haaland is inevitable (U14547)
posted 2 hours, 40 minutes ago
Callum was born in Wandsworth ffs and went to school in Croydon. I think its a little weird to go represent a country you havent lived in
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Any person who holds multiple citizenships will tell you it’s possible to feel as part of the country your parent(s) are from just as much as the country you live in. If I was a footballer I’d be happy to represent Nigeria even though I’ve never lived there - why wouldn’t I?
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I disagree with all of you

Living in a country is a huge part of it for me, you arent representing a culture so much as cultures go across the somewhat arbitrary borders we have set up. You are representing a nation state which you should be an actual part of if you want to play sport for it
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But you can be, or feel, an actual part of it even if you’ve never formally lived there, definitely. Even if not for you, but for others. Representing a national team tends to broadly align with citizenship rules for the country which I think is pretty reasonable. So many players represent countries different to where they grew up..not weird at all imo
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I didnt say it was weird, its a completely normalised thing i dont agree with

comment by Blarmy - Haaland is inevitable (U14547)
posted 4 hours, 48 minutes ago
Callum was born in Wandsworth ffs and went to school in Croydon. I think its a little weird to go represent a country you havent lived in
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You did tbf

Fair play