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Originally Posted by Dinny
OK, well that's fair enough, but what about teams like France who deliberately get their players French citizenship just so they can play for the French national team?
Also, in Britain I read in a newspaper that a young Greek player called Masmanidis (could be mispelled) played for the German youth team and said in press conferences that he didn't want to play for Germany, but for Greece. When I see a player play for England, I want to know that he truly cares about England so that he will play to the best of his ability. If a player stated that he didn't want to play for England but for his fatherland, I wouldn't want him in an England jersey because I would feel as though he didn't care, and was taking the place of someone who may not be as talented, but has dreamed his entire life of playing for England.
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I agree 100%. I'm glad Jürgen Klinsmann sees it the same way, his policy is that a player needs to have an emotional bond with Germany. We could have naturalised at least two great players in the last two years but Klinsmann disapproved of it.
06-11-2006, 03:38 AM
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