Examples?
Surely, you don't want to say that countries like, let's say, Cameroon or Nigeria lack football heritage? (you left Africa off your original list).
But are you also saying that people born in, for example, French Guyana shouldn't be playing for France? It's an insular territory of the country.
The USA is a country of immigrants (with a long football history, by the way... not too much achievement though) so how many generations are we talking before it's OK?
No you misunderstood me. I'm talking about countries fielding players who simply changed passports overnight because they were bought. Japan and Croatia have fielded Brazilians. Merlene Ottey representing Slovenia in the olympics - just for money. All of that leads us on a slippery slope imo
yeah, ok my argument comes unstuck with the Africans. What I'm getting at is i'm just wary of the game going to new territories where there is no history of the game and no grainy footage from the past. It's a sentimental game and the real battle always default to the struggle between south american flair and european strategy and that's how it should be, because that's what most of us grew up on.
