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<blockquote data-quote="Luca" data-source="post: 557749" data-attributes="member: 9032"><p>Add Klose and Khedira to that list. </p><p></p><p>Most teams have some guys with dual citizenship. We (the Dutch team) have players like Martins Indi, de Guzman and Kongolo, who could have played for Portugal/Angola (Martins Indi); Switzerland/Kongo (Kongolo) or Canada/Jamaica/Philippines (de Guzman) instead. All three of them moved at an early age to Rotterdam in Holland (<1 year, <1 year and 12 years respectively) and played for the Dutch national youth teams. Therefore they decided to play for the Netherlands. </p><p></p><p>Some other players, who also played in Dutch national youth teams, decided to play for Bosnia, Armenia, Turkey and Morocco instead. </p><p></p><p>You win some, you lose some. Most of the times it seems that the better countries profit, because the better players want to play for the trophies. The Dutch "lost" many guys, but usually those are the guys that would have never made the Dutch team anyway. I think its the same for Germany and other European countries.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Luca, post: 557749, member: 9032"] Add Klose and Khedira to that list. Most teams have some guys with dual citizenship. We (the Dutch team) have players like Martins Indi, de Guzman and Kongolo, who could have played for Portugal/Angola (Martins Indi); Switzerland/Kongo (Kongolo) or Canada/Jamaica/Philippines (de Guzman) instead. All three of them moved at an early age to Rotterdam in Holland (<1 year, <1 year and 12 years respectively) and played for the Dutch national youth teams. Therefore they decided to play for the Netherlands. Some other players, who also played in Dutch national youth teams, decided to play for Bosnia, Armenia, Turkey and Morocco instead. You win some, you lose some. Most of the times it seems that the better countries profit, because the better players want to play for the trophies. The Dutch "lost" many guys, but usually those are the guys that would have never made the Dutch team anyway. I think its the same for Germany and other European countries. [/QUOTE]
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