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This year four Aussies switched nationalities:

* Jaushua Sotirio switched to New Caledonia — good move, poor A-League player or mid NPL player so never even close to the Socceroos squad but for New Caledonia he might be a good option (but not even their best player)
* Anthony Pavlesić switched to Croatia — stupid move, even though he's a former Aussie youth international and now a Croatian youth international he's never gonna be close to Croatia's squad (reminder that Croatia were runners-up at the 2018 World Cup and got third place at the 2022 World Cup, so they're a quality side)
* Jake Brimmer switched to Malta — given he probably wasn't gonna be called up probably a good move from him, and I'm surprised Malta hasn't picked many more Aussies given we have the largest Maltese diaspora in the world
* Nektarios Triantis switched to Greece — shit move because even if he makes their squad he would've made ours too

Only one male player switched to Australia this year: Marcus Ferkranus switched from the USA to Australia. Personally I highly doubt he would ever play for either team so really he just made a purely symbolic move in doing this.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
This year four Aussies switched nationalities:

* Jaushua Sotirio switched to New Caledonia — good move, poor A-League player or mid NPL player so never even close to the Socceroos squad but for New Caledonia he might be a good option (but not even their best player)
* Anthony Pavlesić switched to Croatia — stupid move, even though he's a former Aussie youth international and now a Croatian youth international he's never gonna be close to Croatia's squad (reminder that Croatia were runners-up at the 2018 World Cup and got third place at the 2022 World Cup, so they're a quality side)
* Jake Brimmer switched to Malta — given he probably wasn't gonna be called up probably a good move from him, and I'm surprised Malta hasn't picked many more Aussies given we have the largest Maltese diaspora in the world
* Nektarios Triantis switched to Greece — shit move because even if he makes their squad he would've made ours too

Only one male player switched to Australia this year: Marcus Ferkranus switched from the USA to Australia. Personally I highly doubt he would ever play for either team so really he just made a purely symbolic move in doing this.
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Though it helps Brisbane Roar that by doing that, Ferkranus qualifies as an Australian in the A League.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
This year four Aussies switched nationalities:

* Jaushua Sotirio switched to New Caledonia — good move, poor A-League player or mid NPL player so never even close to the Socceroos squad but for New Caledonia he might be a good option (but not even their best player)
* Anthony Pavlesić switched to Croatia — stupid move, even though he's a former Aussie youth international and now a Croatian youth international he's never gonna be close to Croatia's squad (reminder that Croatia were runners-up at the 2018 World Cup and got third place at the 2022 World Cup, so they're a quality side)
* Jake Brimmer switched to Malta — given he probably wasn't gonna be called up probably a good move from him, and I'm surprised Malta hasn't picked many more Aussies given we have the largest Maltese diaspora in the world
* Nektarios Triantis switched to Greece — shit move because even if he makes their squad he would've made ours too

Only one male player switched to Australia this year: Marcus Ferkranus switched from the USA to Australia. Personally I highly doubt he would ever play for either team so really he just made a purely symbolic move in doing this.
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Ryan Williams has now switched allegiance from Australia to India after previously giving up Australian citizenship, but the move hasn't been made official until today.
 
Dan_The_Red said:
Giving up your Aussie citizenship just to play football for India is pretty wild.
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I doubt he was ever gonna get picked for the Socceroos playing for Bangalore.

Most of the ISL is Indian (besides a few, e.g Jamie Maclaren, an ex-Socceroo and the all-time leading goalscorer in the A-League, and Roy Krishna, who is Fiji's greatest ever player (he is Indo-Fijian I should note so he is Fijian but has Indian heritage)).

At the moment India's entire squad is playing in the ISL yet the media say they're a "developing football powerhouse". 🤣
 
HonestSpursFan said:
I doubt he was ever gonna get picked for the Socceroos playing for Bangalore.

Most of the ISL is Indian (besides a few, e.g Jamie Maclaren, an ex-Socceroo and the all-time leading goalscorer in the A-League, and Roy Krishna, who is Fiji's greatest ever player (he is Indo-Fijian I should note so he is Fijian but has Indian heritage)).

At the moment India's entire squad is playing in the ISL yet the media say they're a "developing football powerhouse". 🤣
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It would be nice for the Subcontinent as a whole to finally get its act together at ⚽️, but it’s not looking much likelier than before. Even w/that kid from Melb City’s youth/NPL team & a couple other diaspora-players, Pakistan still got thumped 5-0 by Syria yesterday.
 
BA81 said:
It would be nice for the Subcontinent as a whole to finally get its act together at ⚽️, but it’s not looking much likelier than before. Even w/that kid from Melb City’s youth/NPL team & a couple other diaspora-players, Pakistan still got thumped 5-0 by Syria yesterday.
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Cricket is so deeply embedded in the culture. If the cricket infrastructure in India was directed at Football they would be making world cups and beating euro teams. But it's never going to happen.
 
Cunningstunt said:
Cricket is so deeply embedded in the culture. If the cricket infrastructure in India was directed at Football they would be making world cups and beating euro teams. But it's never going to happen.
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With a population of over a billion people it still may happen.

And at this rate it will be an 108 team World Cup by 2054 so there's that.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
This year four Aussies switched nationalities:

* Jaushua Sotirio switched to New Caledonia — good move, poor A-League player or mid NPL player so never even close to the Socceroos squad but for New Caledonia he might be a good option (but not even their best player)
* Anthony Pavlesić switched to Croatia — stupid move, even though he's a former Aussie youth international and now a Croatian youth international he's never gonna be close to Croatia's squad (reminder that Croatia were runners-up at the 2018 World Cup and got third place at the 2022 World Cup, so they're a quality side)
* Jake Brimmer switched to Malta — given he probably wasn't gonna be called up probably a good move from him, and I'm surprised Malta hasn't picked many more Aussies given we have the largest Maltese diaspora in the world
* Nektarios Triantis switched to Greece — shit move because even if he makes their squad he would've made ours too

Only one male player switched to Australia this year: Marcus Ferkranus switched from the USA to Australia. Personally I highly doubt he would ever play for either team so really he just made a purely symbolic move in doing this.
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Couple of snakes in that list. Can understand Brimmer, but the other 2 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍
 
BA81 said:
Hopefully; there’d need to be at least one player@ bare-minimum Viduka/Kewell/Cahill-level to kickstart the process.
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Their best striker ever is Sunil Chhetri who also plays for Bangalore and is now retired from internationals (he has 157 caps and 95 goals for India, but all were against bang average to shit teams except for South Korea). Outside India he's only ever played three games of football (all of which were for Sporting CP's B team, given he never played for KC Wizards, now known as Sporting KC).

If your best player's highest level was a bench player in the MLS who never played a game that shows that India just isn't the "developing footballing powerhouse" the football media claims it is (and probably only claims that for viewership in the world's most populous country).
 
grazorblade said:
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Thank God he's sticking with us and not going to Croatia.

Not sure why any Aussie man would switch the Croatia in 2025. Croatia are far better than us and have finished second and third at the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, so if they have the talent for Croatia then they would do wonders for us. For Aussie women it makes sense because Croatia is worse than the Matildas in the women's game, but in the men's game Croatia well exceeds the Socceroos.
 
Cunningstunt said:
Cricket is so deeply embedded in the culture. If the cricket infrastructure in India was directed at Football they would be making world cups and beating euro teams. But it's never going to happen.
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With almost 1.5 billion people, all they need is 2% to start playing/following/being interested in football and you have more than the whole population of Australia.
 
Kitwally said:
With almost 1.5 billion people, all they need is 2% to start playing/following/being interested in football and you have more than the whole population of Australia.
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Interesting to think about for sure. But you need the money, infrastructure and to be embedded in the culture, it isn't just population. India are the superpower of world cricket because all of these things are present. But 2% of India isn't getting anything done. We think improving the football culture here is tough, it would be so much worse in India.
 
Kitwally said:
With almost 1.5 billion people, all they need is 2% to start playing/following/being interested in football and you have more than the whole population of Australia.
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There's already more than that interested in it somewhat (even if it's just simply kicking a soccer ball around in the park). Hell probably more than 2% of Indians watch the (English) Premier League. But the infrastructure to become an elite nation in the sport isn't there.

It's even more noticeable in Southeast Asia where it's the main sport (and cricket barely exists except among Aussies and Dutch who introduced it to Indonesia). Football is absolutely massive, the Prem is on free to air TV, people go to the park and play all the time, and you see Liverpool and Man U kits literally everywhere. But the money isn't there.
 
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