Nope. That's why the Aussies have changed the import rule to
four for the A-League... As an Aussie club you allowed 3
non-Australians and that's it for the ACL.
That's tight. Then we're into convincing a swathe of young
Chileans/Brazilians to become NZ citizens. So what's the rule
on that? Does FIFA stop you swapping from your country of
birth? I mean there's a few Kiwi born, "foreign
passport" players out there.
To quote from Ricki's article"Add to the mix New Zealand
born players representing other nations at junior level, Winston
Reid in Denmark and Michael McGlinchey at Celtic spring to
mind"
im not 100% on the FIFA laws but im pretty sure you need to make a
declaration before you're 20th birthday if you've played junior rep
footy for another country.
if you havent played at all i would assume you would need residency (3 years?)/a NZ passport gings2007-05-11 22:54:59
if you havent played at all i would assume you would need residency (3 years?)/a NZ passport gings2007-05-11 22:54:59
Another obvious problem with these ideas ? In the Asian
Champions League you are allowed 3 foreign players. As we're
going to have around 10 kiwi's and/or 10 Aussies we would have to
recruit half a squad to enter...
I don't think that would be neccesary...I think we could
possibly do something like in the A-league where the Phoenix are
allowed to ave New zealanders in there plus Australians....So
I don't see why it can not be the same in the AFC..As the Phoenix
are part of the A-league and the A-league is an Australian
competition I don't see why the Phoenix can not be included...But
that is for the future...
And Like I said before, it would help if we could make a "
Donation " to the AFC.
Nestling2007-05-11 23:02:15
it would suk that if in a few years the phoenix dominated in the
comp and all the over teams werent even close to how good the
phoenix woulde be and we sent some aussie teams in that were
hopeless than that would giv the a league a bad reputation.
it would suk that if in a few years the phoenix dominated in the
comp
I think it would be Great. Dont know how it would suck. Losing
sucks, Winning is brilliant.
it would suk not goin through if we were 5 cuts above the rest
That would suck, but winning the league and being stand outs as a
team would open doors to competetions.
Phoenix to dominate in five years? Awesome :D