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Post by shreve05 on May 31, 2007 9:07:17 GMT -6
so how did lapira get to play for the Irish national team when hes lived in US most of his life?
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Post by acmilan on May 31, 2007 9:53:45 GMT -6
he probably has duel-citizenship with both the US and Ireland. Am i correct?
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Post by d1d5fan on May 31, 2007 11:29:23 GMT -6
his mother is irish. thats all you need.
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Post by The Irish Fro on May 31, 2007 13:29:09 GMT -6
well his mother is from ireland, but is all you need to play for a national team is descendants from that country? is there a limit to how many generations you can go back?
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Post by LafayetteDad on May 31, 2007 14:07:57 GMT -6
Every country has the right to determine what it takes to grant citizenship. Aren't there Brazilian born players on the Japanese and Tunisian national teams? They probably had "expedited" procedures to grant them citizenship. Likewise with Ireland. Or they may be more like the US that has a law that says a child born to an American mother abroad is a citizen.
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Post by mrdashriprock on May 31, 2007 14:12:46 GMT -6
I would suspect that a player's natural mother or father must be born in the particular country and still have his/her citizenship for that country. So a generation away from that wouldn't qualify.
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Post by acmilan on May 31, 2007 14:23:45 GMT -6
there is a guy from Nigeria on Poland's national team
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Post by mrdashriprock on May 31, 2007 14:39:37 GMT -6
You're right. A player can also just apply for citizenship in that country if there are no birthrights - like Freddy Adu did.
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Post by The Irish Fro on May 31, 2007 17:05:02 GMT -6
allright so it matters with a country. i remember back during the olympics, Greece (The host country) didnt have a baseball team because no one has ever played the sport there. so the Olympic committee i guess allowed Greece to use players from the US with greek descendants. some people went back like three generations to prove they had greek ancestry and they were allowed on the team.
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Post by soccermadness10 on Jun 3, 2007 8:47:36 GMT -6
not saying i'm good enough or anything, but i can play or england if it were possible because my mom's english , and i wanna say scotland because my grandmother is 100% scottish.
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Post by lakeview on Jun 3, 2007 10:25:07 GMT -6
Don't think you'd make the England side. Try for the Scottish.
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Post by Punkaro on Jun 4, 2007 22:07:29 GMT -6
Not sure if I would have taken that deal now in the future he can only play for the Irish team
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Post by pompey on Jun 8, 2007 21:23:21 GMT -6
scored two crackers tonight in 3-2 win.
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Post by DREDG03 on Jun 8, 2007 21:50:35 GMT -6
Lapira can still play for the USA. He is not tied to any national team.
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Post by pompey on Jun 10, 2007 14:58:06 GMT -6
Lapira can still play for the USA. He is not tied to any national team. Nope, not the case, has now played in a senior international for another country, so cannot play for the USA now.
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Post by thugbehram on Jun 10, 2007 16:14:17 GMT -6
It wasn't an official competition. He can still play for the US.
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Post by whodisis on Jun 10, 2007 17:55:14 GMT -6
yes he can still play for the US
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Post by Bish on Jun 10, 2007 19:38:00 GMT -6
double pwnd
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