New Zealand U-23s - Quali Whites

Deklan Wynne was born in South Africa. Does he have NZ citizenship? Both passports?

Anyone have the info on Deklan Wynne? Was he born a kiwi?.

Or know how old he is. Lol.

Deklan went to my school. He came here in 2009 and was new in my Social Studies class at the start of 2010. You would think he has citizenship, but I personally do not know. How many years do you have to wait to get citizenship?

The fudgeing state of nz football, jesus...

5 years i thinks

It depends what the ineligibility is?  Haven't heard if it is passport/age/cards...

It's a yellow cards issue?

How would be able to play in an U20 FIFA World Cup without a NZ passport???  the first thing they do at Tech Meeting is have every player stand up and the officials check off the person with their passport...

If he's not a citizen/passport holder, he's done well to get as far as he has so far...

im sure bill is happy that he skipped pre season for this...

he only played one game prior to Vanuatu so I doubt it's cards...

Guessing there must be different eligibility rules for this tournament than other matches?

Piney saying not yellow cards. Wiki says DOB is March, 95. So it's citizenship and / or passport.

why can I see this being a messy court room battle dragging our sport through the mud in the media a bit more?

So hes got no yellows, has the correct passport,  is within the correct age range. What other reason is there? .... shark hair cut? ?

Conspiracy theories here please...

didnt we have a pretty bad stuff up a few years ago? not quite as serious but just a silly if i remember.

Maybe he has a NZ passport under the Refugee act. And is not a full citizen.

So this is a shambolic clusterfudge of OFC/NZF proportions. 

Did we mis-spell his name on the teamsheet or the registration form or something?

You need citizenship to get a passport. Do FIFA require citizenship AND passport, as opposed to just citizenship?

So how the hell does Vanuatu know that he is not allowed to play, but our administration did not.

Did he ever play for a SA team in an official comp?

He's played for the national team, and just completed a fifa world cup... how on earth could he not be "allowed" to play.

Perhaps this is OFC trying to say F you for everything you have said about us lately... or has our vote against Sepp come back to bite us in the arse.

I know NZF have a history of this sort of administration "ahem" error. But I would give them the benefit of the doubt until the challenge process has gone through its course. As someone mentioned earlier, it would be very unlikely Wynne would have been eligible to participate in the FIFA U20 World Cup had due diligence not been done. I have far more faith in NZF than OFC in terms of administration.

There had to have been a tip off involved in this...

This whole thing is soo confusing.

The final nail has been struck.

NZF to join Asia.

Article 7 of the OFC Statutes just states:

That doesn't really clear things up.

Surely Fifa's rules on eligibility outweigh OFC's

I think I've worked this out - relevant FIFA requirements:

Wynne can't meet that requirement because he's not 23 yet. He hasn't lived in NZ for at least 5 years since reaching the age of 18. Therefore he isn't eligible for NZ?

Looks like a provision preventing appeal of any decisions relating to this matter... 

If it's the fault of an administrator at NZF, I hope heads will roll very quickly....

Why don't OFC name the player concerned?

Not naming the player reeks of a set-up.

Hopeless!

I won't be watching the Final now.

Stuff it! 

Wow, just wow!

OFC can't even get the name of the match today correct as I just pointed out to them on their Facebook!!!

This on their Facebook:

Fiji will contest the OFC Olympic Qualifier Semi-Final with Vanuatu after New Zealand was found to have fielded an ineligible player. http://bit.ly/1K1eW7m

But he's not assuming a new nationality as he already has one. This argues he can't have it if he doesn't meet blah blah, but the reality is, he already does have the nationality required to play in the team.

How OFC can say a player who is a full international player is ineligible is beyond belief.

so that means someone moving to NZ at age 14 would need to start a new 5 year stand down period at age 18 as they would have only had 4 years residence prior to that??? surely I'm reading that wrong, I am fairly thick...

this still doesn't establish how he was able to play a FIFA tournament if he was actually ineligible...

He might not have been eligible to play at the U20 WC too - it's just that no one ever challenged his eligibility then