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Post by llannerch on Sept 24, 2010 12:22:13 GMT
We are at a disadvantage because we can't make anyone a 'welsh citizen' Most associations in the Caribbean, Africa and Asia, and many stateless nations such as Catalunya and the Basques, would say we have a massive advantage in having a team at all. The very prinicpal that brings about our inability in footballing terms to "make anyone a Welsh citizen" is the very principal that enshrines our footballing independence. Our footballing sovereignty is intrinsically linked to rulings such as the schooling one. I have no doubt whatsoever that FIFA would look upon the home nations eroding their own agreements as creating space for the moral argument for winding up their sovereignty |
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Post by flynnfan on Sept 24, 2010 17:36:54 GMT
We are the third oldest football nation in the world. For Fifa to start messing with 134 years of history would be idiotic.
Not sure I really understand your argument in the first paragraph llanerch. What exactly are you on about?
And before anyone gets too snooty about someone like Arteta playing for Wales, similar situations have occured before- Van Den Hauwe and John Robinson for example. Neither was born in Wales or have Welsh family. They were only eligable as naturalise British citizens. Not saying I agree witht this rule btw, just pointing out the ABSURDITY of someone like Van Den Hauwe with no Welsh connections being able to play for us, whereas someone like Chris Armstrong, raised and educated in Wales (even recieved a lot of his football education in Wales as he came through with local sides and Wrexham) couldn't.
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