Canada almost deserves what they got with Begovic, he accepted a few call-ups and they didn't play him. Stupidity by the coach, but to be fair, back then you weren't allowed to switch countries after you played youth games for another. Fifa changed the rules in 2009 and Bosnia came calling.
One WCQ cycle we were already eliminated and had two games left and they rode Onstad or Hirschfeld pointlessly, I think that was Yallop, could have easily cap tied him... such a waste.
His reasoning/rationale for switching is still bull#### though. More than any other guy who switched he screwed us. He was our starter at every youth level in every major tournament... a program with no money invested a ton of their limited time and resources in him before he got a contract. Spurs and Portsmouth only noticed him playing for the nats. He really was helped a lot by the CSA.
He didn't like what he saw in the CSA and didn't think the right people were in charge. You don't play international soccer for the 10 suits who run the association, it's for the other 35 million Canadians.
The thing that really bugged me about him was that when the whole controversy was brewing he went on Canadian radio (the team in Vancouver) and said he wasn't going to switch and was committed to Canada. A month later he accepted a callup for Bosnia.
There have actually been some really far fetched theories in the Canadian soccer community about the Bosnian mafia and his family
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