I think people seeing international play as a career advancement vehicle is really problematic and undermines the whole purpose of international soccer to represent your country. If you're not feeling it, skip international soccer all together.
It's always a big debate as to what constitutes "your country" but I think Fifa should definitely have rules to ban players from playing for countries they've never even lived in (like Bustos and Chile for example) at least.
As much as this is a kick in the shins to a lot of people right at world cup time... if you were born and raised in Canada, you are not from Portugal or Ireland or wherever because your parents or grandparents are from there. Before that, your ancestors wandered there from somewhere else in europe, by way of africa and you've got the same connection to those places. Ethnic nationalism is freaking ridiculous in this day and age.
Fifa needs to ditch the ancestry rules because they are bullcrap. And I'm not saying Canada hasn't used them (*cough* Bircham), but they are not logical at all.
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