Hi all,
I have a question for all Brits here:
What are the requirements to play in the English/Scottish/Welsh/Northern Ireland national football tems? I mean, all of you have British passports and not English, Scottish, Welsh, or Norther Ireland ones.
Do you have to be born in the respective part of the UK to play for their national football team? That's the only logical explanation I have.
Please enlighten me!
Thanks,
Patrick
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Requirement To Play In The UK National Teams?
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No.. Michael Owen ( who I am sure you will remember... 5-1 in Munich and all that ) was actually born in Wales.. You can play for the country your parents were born in I am sure.. Did that happen wheh the two Boateng brothers played against each other last week?
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To play for England/Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland, you must:
a) Be born in England to play for England, born in Scotland to play for Scotland and so on.
There are exceptions:
If you wanted to play for Scotland for eample and weren't Scottish, but had a Scottish parent or grandparent, you qualify to play for them.
You can become a national of a country after 5/10? years residence in the country.
a) Be born in England to play for England, born in Scotland to play for Scotland and so on.
There are exceptions:
If you wanted to play for Scotland for eample and weren't Scottish, but had a Scottish parent or grandparent, you qualify to play for them.
You can become a national of a country after 5/10? years residence in the country.
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And anyhow half the German squad don't have German names anymore...
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Thanks a lot guys!
So does your passport really state "English", "Scottish", "Welsh" etc.?
Patrick
So does your passport really state "English", "Scottish", "Welsh" etc.?
Patrick
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Sounds like the rules are slightly stricter than in, say, cricket *cough* 
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| Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 4): So does your passport really state "English", "Scottish", "Welsh" etc.? |
Mine says I am British...
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| Quoting ndebelebev (Reply 6): Mine says I am British... |
That is the reason why I started this thread!
I was curious who is allowed to play for which of the four national football teams the UK has, all of you have British passports.
How does the UK make a difference between the English/Scottish/Welsh/Northern Irish? Is it written in your passport, in your birth certificate?
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Our place of birth is in our Passport but nothing that says I am English.. I'd send you a screen shot but I don't think its wise posting it on here.. Lol..
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| Quoting ndebelebev (Reply 8): Our place of birth is in our Passport but nothing that says I am English. |
Ok, logical, by knowing the birthplace you also know the part of the UK it is in.
| Quoting ndebelebev (Reply 8): I'd send you a screen shot but I don't think its wise posting it on here.. Lol.. |
I already saw a lot of British passports on Wikipedia. I was glued to this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_passport some days ago and after reading it, I was asking myself: "Well, all of them are British. Why do some play for England, the others for Scottland, others for Wales, etc...?".
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| Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 9): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_passport some days ago and after reading it, I was asking myself: "Well, all of them are British. Why do some play for England, the others for Scottland, others for Wales, etc...?". |
Because FIFA has decided to recognize the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish football teams as seperate teams. In some sports you have them competing seperately, and in others they are a combined Great Britain (the Olympics for instance).
In the same vein, you have the Faroe Islands competing on their own away from the Danish national team, as does Greenland - though the latter are not a member of FIFA since they don't have any grass pitches to play on...
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| Quoting CPH-R (Reply 10): Because FIFA has decided to recognize the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish football teams as seperate teams. In some sports you have them competing seperately, and in others they are a combined Great Britain (the Olympics for instance). In the same vein, you have the Faroe Islands competing on their own away from the Danish national team, as does Greenland - though the latter are not a member of FIFA since they don't have any grass pitches to play on... |
Thanks a lot! Damned interesting!
I didn't ever notice that they appear as UK at the Olympics.
Patrick
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The Olympics and the UK having a team taking part in football has always been a thorny issue as it has been long feared by the Scots and Welsh particularly that a lot of other countries would take the view that if they can combine for the World Cup, they can combine for all other football tournaments. Hence, the UK team for 2012 is 99% likley to be completely English as this would satisty the Olympic movement with the perceived "home" of football being represented at it's own Games, FIFA who wanted a UK team to take part and all 4 home nations as they can state that only English players were in the squad so it cannot be an issue for them to conjoing (at the original time, it was though that perhaps no more than 3 non-English players would be in it. Given how England performed at the World Cup, it's not that cut and dried what the make-up of the squad would be).
We also have seemingly strange situation that Ryan Giggs actually played at Schoolboy level for England - born Cardiff, raised in Salford and never thought about playing for any international team other than Wales.
We also have seemingly strange situation that Ryan Giggs actually played at Schoolboy level for England - born Cardiff, raised in Salford and never thought about playing for any international team other than Wales.
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I also recall that there was a Home Championship, which used to be a competition between the four constituent nations of the UK. I wonder if it will ever be possible to bring the Home Championship back to life again, so the English, Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish can ses who's best, like they do in Rugby Union in the Six Nations tournament albeit with the addition of France and Italy (and after this World Cup, it will certainly NOT be easy for England to win this every year).
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| Quoting CPH-R (Reply 10): the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish football teams as seperate teams. In some sports you have them competing seperately, and in others they are a combined Great Britain |
Even worse, Northern Ireland is not a part of Great Britain. Ever thought why it is called perfid Albion ?
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I think the main eligibility requirement is to be completely bloody useless at whatever sport it is you are supposed to be playing 
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| Quoting LTU932 (Reply 13): I also recall that there was a Home Championship |
Something very similar is being started next year, the 4 Associations Tournament - without England, but the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4_Associations%27_Tournament
| Quoting iakobos (Reply 14): Northern Ireland is not a part of Great Britain |
Indeed, the inclusive term for the country including NI is the UK. The Olympic team called "Team GB" includes Northern Irish athletes who wish to be part of the team, other NI athletes can choose to represent Ireland.
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| Quoting signol (Reply 17): Something very similar is being started next year, the 4 Associations Tournament - without England |
Yup, they think they are too good to compete
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Just think how great the British team would have been if you could combine the best players from England, Wales, Northern Ireland... And if Scotland has footballplayers, maybe even they could join in? 
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| Quoting Sabena332 (Thread starter): What are the requirements to play in the English/Scottish/Welsh/Northern Ireland national football tems? |
You need to be in the top 5% of underachievers in your league to play for England.
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| Quoting signol (Reply 17): Indeed, the inclusive term for the country including NI is the UK. The Olympic team called "Team GB" includes Northern Irish athletes who wish to be part of the team, other NI athletes can choose to represent Ireland. |
That rule also existed once in football, but then FIFA imposed rules that makes switching between FAI and IFA more difficult. I believe back in the day, people could switch whenever they wanted, but now you have to choose, and once an official match is played, the choice is permanent.
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Basically, whatever constituent country you are born in is what national team you play for, barring if you have a grandparent or parent that was born in another one, for example if you were English but had a Scottish grandmother, you could play for Scotland (At the moment, that doesn't seem like such a bad idea... ) Your passport doesn't say English or Irish or Welsh or Scottish on it, it says British. It'll have your place of birth, like Glasgow or London or Belfast, but it doesn't have the country that it's in. I could only represent England, because both my parents and both sets of grandparents are English. My girlfriend could play for England or Northern Ireland though, as her dad is Northern Irish and her mum is English.
Once you have played for 1 of the 4 national teams of the UK you can't play for another though, so pick a good one and stick to it
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) Your passport doesn't say English or Irish or Welsh or Scottish on it, it says British. It'll have your place of birth, like Glasgow or London or Belfast, but it doesn't have the country that it's in. I could only represent England, because both my parents and both sets of grandparents are English. My girlfriend could play for England or Northern Ireland though, as her dad is Northern Irish and her mum is English.
Once you have played for 1 of the 4 national teams of the UK you can't play for another though, so pick a good one and stick to it
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| Quoting ajd1992 (Reply 24): Once you have played for 1 of the 4 national teams of the UK you can't play for another though, so pick a good one and stick to it |
only if you have played at a senior level - you can represent england U21's then switch to Scotland senior squad I believe.
Also, if you have been in education in the chosen country for more than 5 years you also qualify. This was changed recently, allowing a Andrew Driver to qualify to play for Scotland: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot.../h/heart_of_midlothian/8731562.stm
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| Quoting [email protected] (Reply 21): Just think how great the British team would have been if you could combine the best players from England, Wales, Northern Ireland... And if Scotland has footballplayers, maybe even they could join in? |
If your forget the girlie sport of soccer and talk of a real mans sport RUGBY you have The British and Irish Lions team which are made up from players of the four home unions, Ireland (players from the North and South), Wales, Scotland and England. A Lions tour is one of the highlights of International Rugby; Lions tours generally occur every 4th year..
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The national rugby league team is Great Britain.
After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says WTF...
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| Quoting Andz (Reply 27): The national rugby league team is Great Britain. |
There are also England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland teams. But they are no good
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_national_rugby_league_team
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain_national_rugby_league_team
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| Quoting ndebelebev (Reply 3): And anyhow half the German squad don't have German names anymore... |
Oh don't start that. Only Cacau wasn't born in Germany.
| Quoting david_itl (Reply 12): We also have seemingly strange situation that Ryan Giggs actually played at Schoolboy level for England - born Cardiff, raised in Salford and never thought about playing for any international team other than Wales. |
And that is a huge loss for England.
| Quoting [email protected] (Reply 21): And if Scotland has footballplayers, maybe even they could join in? |
Scotland has football players...they are just impossible to ply away from the sheep
| Quoting metroliner (Reply 22): You need to be in the top 5% of underachievers in your league to play for England. |
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| Quoting KiwiRob (Reply 26): If your forget the girlie sport of soccer |
Never heard of it. I quite like football though...
| Quoting N1120A (Reply 30): Scotland has football players...they are just impossible to ply away from the sheep |
Come to think of it, I have actually seen the scottish national team in action. They beat Norway 2-1 in Oslo... what does that tell you about the Norwegian team...
| Quoting N1120A (Reply 30): Emile Heskey |
I don't know what kind of "services" he is providing for Mr. Capello off the pitch, but he must be damn good at it for getting picked for England...
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| Quoting N1120A (Reply 30): Quoting ndebelebev (Reply 3): And anyhow half the German squad don't have German names anymore... Oh don't start that. Only Cacau wasn't born in Germany. |
Start what? Read the facts before you state who was born where.. Both Klose and Podolski were born in Poland for a start, Marin was born in Bosnia..
It was purely an observation by myself that the players without German sounding names have obviously chosen to play for Germany and have parents of other nationalities.. as is the context of this thread!
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It's simple, if you're really bad at football, you play for England. And if you're really really really bad at football, you play for one of the rest.
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At the minute I think if we had a UK team only Gareth Bale would be the obvious candidate. Otherwise, it would just be the England team.
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