Pointless thread of the day and it's only a quarter past midnight. Well done.

 

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Pointless thread of the day and it's only a quarter past midnight. Well done.

Don't like it? Go to sleep loser.

 

very interesting indeed.

 

Denny Landzaat who plays for Holland is half Indonesian.

Maybe Holland will get another one soon.

Salomon Kaloe (Ivorian) wants to have the Dutch nationality.
For now he has to wait a couple of years but it can come sooner.
If he gets it he will be guaranteed a place in the Dutch national team.

 

You got to love the French team, yet some people in this forum would tell you that they are 100% French

 

Belgium

Vincent Kompany - Congo
Anthony Vanden Borre - Congo
Nordin Jbari - Morocco
Gaby Mudingayi - Congo?
Roberto Bisconti - Italy

 

whats the point of this? To have a go at France from the looks of it.

Italy:

Monti (Argentinian)
Orsi (Argentinian)
Guaita (Argentinian)
Demaria (Argentina)
Humberto Maschio (Argentina)
Omar Sivori (Argentina)

Theres a few more to be getting on with

 

Russia (Current and Past)

Andrey Karyaka (Ukrainian)
Sergei Ignashevitch (Belarussian)
Sergei Semak (Ukrainian)
Alex Onopko (Ukrainian)
Oleg Salenko (Ukrainian)
Euvgeni Aldonin (From Ukraine but ethnic Russian)
Valery Karpin (From Estonia but ethnic Russian) (obviously)

Ukraine
Aliev ( Russian)
Milevsky (Belarussian)

Of course Russia and Ukraine both have players playing for them who were raised in Russia or Ukraine but are either full or part ethnic Russian or Ukrainian, like Voronin, Rebrov, Pavlyuchenko, Gusin, Gusev, Kirichenko, etc, etc.

Also 90% of Latvia's nt is ethnic Russian, and 25% of Estonia's NT is ethnic Russian, as well as many Russians or Ukrainians in the Kazakh and Uzbek sides.

 

The Mozambique players you listed for Portugal aren't technically "naturalized" because Mozambique was a part of Portugal back then. He was born in Mozambique, yes. They didn't have to go out and get any papers signed in order to become Portuguese, etc. as would be the case now. Same thing with Angola. Exception to Abel Xavier.

Some more players for Portugal though:
Derlei (Dynamo Moscow/Brazil) Not capped
Deivid (in process/Sporting/Brazil) Not capped

Petit of Benfica is half-French.

Also Rossi of Manchester United who is known to most as Italian is actually American-born.

 

Tristan is from argie heritage???? maybe that's why I always like that lazy potrero style bastard..Kiko seemed like one, but I don't think he has

 

whats the point of this? To have a go at France from the looks of it.

Italy:

Monti (Argentinian)
Orsi (Argentinian)
Guaita (Argentinian)
Demaria (Argentina)
Humberto Maschio (Argentina)
Omar Sivori (Argentina)

Theres a few more to be getting on with

There's stacks of them from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, but as far as I know anyone who's ever played for Italy has been of Italian descent, if not birth, so keep trying Fred :lala:

 

Giovanni Rosso's grandfather was Italian I believe, which is where the name comes from but he married Croatian and Rosso's mother and father are Croatian.

Ibrahimovic is Bosnian and Croat.

 

Ante Razov of from the US NT is of Croatian descent as well. Surpised me because i thought only Russians, Bulgars and Macedonians have the 'ov'.

 

Thomas Brdaric of Germany is also of Croatian desent.

 

Just foreign heritage? Okay.

Australia

John Aloisi - Italian
Ross Aloisi - Italian
Mark Viduka - Croatian
Marco Bresciano - Italian
Tim Cahill - Samoan
Vince Grella - Italian
Stan Lazaradis - Greek
Mark Schwarzer - German(?)
Zeljko Kalac - Croatian
Harry Kewell - English (I think he qualifies for citizenship)
Craig Moore - Scottish (citizenship)

That's just some. It's pretty hard to name many actual "Aussie" players in the national team, most of them are either second generation ethnic migrants or were born in Europe anyway.

Croatia

Giovanni Rosso- Italian
Eduardo Da Silva- Brazilian

Joey Didulica - Australian
Josep Simunic - Australian

 

There's stacks of them from Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, but as far as I know anyone who's ever played for Italy has been of Italian descent, if not birth, so keep trying Fred :lala:

but the point is, vaga old boy, they aren't actually Italian. They may have relatives with Italian blood, but fact is, a bloke born and raised in Argentina isn't just an Italian with a sombrero on Different country, different upbringing, obviously different type of coaching and training as they are better than anything produced in Italy in the same position (otherwise why would they be in the Italian team, and check out how many were in the wcup winning 1934 side).

 

nasty nick...is this a go at metropolitan societies..??

and one question, is javier zanetti considered more argentinian than claude makelele considered french??

In your opinion what distinguishes a persons nationality...

 

Pires, i believe is half Portugese and half Spanish.

And he played for France.

 

Pires was born in Reims, France. His father is Portuguese and his mother is Spanish.

 

but the point is, vaga old boy, they aren't actually Italian. They may have relatives with Italian blood, but fact is, a bloke born and raised in Argentina isn't just an Italian with a sombrero on Different country, different upbringing, obviously different type of coaching and training as they are better than anything produced in Italy in the same position (otherwise why would they be in the Italian team, and check out how many were in the wcup winning 1934 side).

it depends, once he fvck up is argie, once he drugs too, when playing like hell, is italo hehehe

 

it depends, once he fvck up is argie, once he drugs too, when playing like hell, is italo hehehe

hey fangio are of italian background?

 

Standar Liege has an interesting player for this thread:
Mohamed Tchite holder of:
-Congolese
-Ruandese
-Burundese
-Belgian
nationality

 

Henry's got French and Guadelopian citizenship, and would qualify for an English one now since his wife and child were born in England. Same for DB10.

I think Asshead Cole qualifies for Jamaican.

 

I think Asshead Cole qualifies for Jamaican.

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