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Originally Posted by Matty81
Tosaint Ricketts moved to Israel's Hapoel Haifa on a two year deal:
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Fifa has lots of issues... doesn't mean they can't fix nationality rules too, they have been a joke for too long, even worse now that they let people switch even after representing another country at u-20 competitions.
They need to up the residency requirement and ditch ancestry rules that allow people to play for countries they've never been to asap. |
I take a lot of exception to those comments. As a Canadian father of 2 boys born in the US, I (as does the Canadian government) consider them Canadian citizens. Just because I decided to live in the same country as their mother doesn't mean that they should be any less Canadian and undeserving of deciding to play for Canada if they chose to. You should be able to represent the country you are a citizen of regardless of whether you lived there growing up.