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Posted July 14, 2015 10:32 · last edited July 14, 2015 10:34

nomeans wrote:


http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/fifas-eligibility-rules-explained-29647415.html

Q. Who can a player play for when he has never played international football?

A. A player can play for any country for whom they hold a permanent nationality.

Ireland's a really poor example, even FIFA statues can't resolve that easily.

The answer in the QA is simplistic - at a high-level, it's true, but as we have seen there are provisos to that in Sections 6 and 7 which are applicable to players who don't hold a straightforward permanent nationality. Otherwise, if the answer was all there was, Sections 6 and 7 would be redundant and not part of the statutes.

And actually, after just reading the article, it says absolutely everything I've been saying - it even states that Januzaj may have to wait until he's 23 to be eligible!

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el grapadura edited July 14, 2015 10:34
nomeans wrote:


http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/fifas-eligibility-rules-explained-29647415.html

Q. Who can a player play for when he has never played international football?

A. A player can play for any country for whom they hold a permanent nationality.

Ireland's a really poor example, even FIFA statues can't resolve that easily.

The answer in the QA is simplistic - at a high-level, it's true, but as we have seen there are provisos to that in Sections 6 and 7 which are applicable to players who don't hold a straightforward permanent nationality. Otherwise, if the answer was all there was, Sections 6 and 7 would be redundant and not part of the statues.