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Posted July 12, 2015 05:28 · last edited July 12, 2015 05:29

Jeff Vader wrote:

Ok so here is a hypothetical based on Holloways post in the Herald that needs disproving:

John Smith arrives in NZ aged 3 from USA and is now aged 15 and is pretty bloody good at football - catching the eye of national age group coaches. He has no parents or grandparents of NZ decent and was not born here. Is it being posed that even though he is has lived here pretty much his whole life and for all intents is a Kiwi, he cannot play for NZ for another 8 years until he hits 23?

If this is the case then there will be a lot of people in trouble. Surely this cannot be correct.

Yup, it does seem like plenty of other players would be caught by this all over the world - someone mentioned Zalalem earlier. Thing is, it looks like Zalalem was officially cleared to change nationality by FIFA:

 http://www.espnfc.us/united-states/story/2447973/g...

His situation is not different to Wynne's - in fact, it is even worse because he had played age group football for Germany. He doesn't meet any of those 4 points outlined in the statutes either. So either FIFA cleared Zalalem and they actually shouldn't have under their own regulations, or Wynne should be eligible too. Unless we never got official FIFA clearance for it or something.

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ConanTroutman edited July 12, 2015 05:29
Jeff Vader wrote:

Ok so here is a hypothetical based on Holloways post in the Herald that needs disproving:

John Smith arrives in NZ aged 3 from USA and is now aged 15 and is pretty bloody good at football - catching the eye of national age group coaches. He has no parents or grandparents of NZ decent and was not born here. Is it being posed that even though he is has lived here pretty much his whole life and for all intents is a Kiwi, he cannot play for NZ for another 8 years until he hits 23?

If this is the case then there will be a lot of people in trouble. Surely this cannot be correct.

Yup, it does seem like plenty of other players would be caught by this all over the world - someone mentioned Zalalem earlier. Thing is, it looks like Zalalem was officially cleared to change nationality by FIFA:

 http://www.espnfc.us/united-states/story/2447973/g...

His situation is not different to Wynne's. So either FIFA cleared Zalalem and they actually shouldn't have under their own regulations, or Wynne should be eligible too. Unless we never got official FIFA clearance for it or something.