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Originally Posted by 4X4
Isn't it a FIFA rule that you have to play for the country you play in? Them's the breaks... Once CSA gets their act together, then we can be choked that homegrown talent leaves. Which I guess was your original point. I just don't see it happening in our lifetime.
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Nope... you can play in any country you wish as a club player. For example, Didier Drogba is an Ivory Coast International that plays in England for Chelsea. Many countries rely on their top end talent getting picked up in a big Euro league to progress and take that improvement back to their NT.
Internationally, you have to play for either your birth country, parental country of ancestry, or, in de Guzman's case, a country where you've lived and worked for over 2.5 years and applied for citizenship. Its actually a bigger slap in the face than Hargreaves... at least he had English relatives... this guy is Jamaican/Filipino.