Hi

This thing about trying to build teams from non-national players is rife.

An interesting one is Adnan Januzaj. As a 16 year old he became a Manchester United player having previously played for a Belgian team having been born there. His parents are Kosovo/Albanian descent.

Last year at 19 was picked to play in United's first team and shows great promise.

Januzaj is eligible to represent Belgium through birth and passport, Albania through his ethnic Albanian heritage, Turkey through his grandparents, and Serbia due to the disputed status of his parents' homeland of Kosovo. He is also eligible to represent Kosovo in international football; although Kosovo does not at this time have a FIFA-affiliated senior team.

All these Countries want Januzaj to represent them. Plus England were making overtures for him to qualify on residential grounds.
He eventually chose Belgium and was selected to go with their team this year to the World Cup. he was only used as a substitute but his manager says that he was taken as much for the experience as a squad player.

It was reported that he has received death threats from fans of teams that he turned down.

Gets complicated don't it ???

Cheers

Mike