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Can’t believe people still think we were right to let the two Croats and the Greek guy go smh. They played instead the A-League, played for our youth teams and accepted senior call-ups only to not play and be told that another team would actually play them if they switched permanently. They’re not like the Italian who never played in the A-League or for our youth teams and actively refused to play for the Socceroos to pursue his pipe dream of playing for the Azzurri.

We really are the US, except instead of Mexicans it’s Europeans. It’s getting to the point where whenever a talented migrant talent comes through he or she either never gets called up or goes on and plays for another country.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Can’t believe people still think we were right to let the two Croats and the Greek guy go smh. They played instead the A-League, played for our youth teams and accepted senior call-ups only to not play and be told that another team would actually play them if they switched permanently. They’re not like the Italian who never played in the A-League or for our youth teams and actively refused to play for the Socceroos to pursue his pipe dream of playing for the Azzurri.

We really are the US, except instead of Mexicans it’s Europeans. It’s getting to the point where whenever a talented migrant talent comes through he or she either never gets called up or goes on and plays for another country.
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Im guessing this rant comes from a league reddit? Haha
 
One observation I will make is that this is going to become a problem less and less over the years, because Australia doesn't really receive immigration from continental Europe any more (or certainly not to the extent it did 50 or 60 years ago). As far as I'm aware, Triantis, Segecic, Volpato and Arena all qualify through grandparents. That means the generation below them won't qualify for Italy, Greece, Croatia etc.

According to 2025 Australian Bureau of Statistics data (which is about as authoritative as you can get), the average age for a Greek born Australian is now 77, Italian is 74 and Croatian is 70.

I suspect it'll take another 20 years before we see this work through the system the whole way, but it'll happen eventually. For example, my Dad was born in Australia a year after my grandparents came over from Trieste, so when my son inevitably becomes a world class footballer, he won't qualify for Italy despite having the citizenship.
 
Toebash said:
One observation I will make is that this is going to become a problem less and less over the years, because Australia doesn't really receive immigration from continental Europe any more (or certainly not to the extent it did 50 or 60 years ago). As far as I'm aware, Triantis, Segecic, Volpato and Arena all qualify through grandparents. That means the generation below them won't qualify for Italy, Greece, Croatia etc.

According to 2025 Australian Bureau of Statistics data (which is about as authoritative as you can get), the average age for a Greek born Australian is now 77, Italian is 74 and Croatian is 70.

I suspect it'll take another 20 years before we see this work through the system the whole way, but it'll happen eventually. For example, my Dad was born in Australia a year after my grandparents came over from Trieste, so when my son inevitably becomes a world class footballer, he won't qualify for Italy despite having the citizenship.
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So any volpato born in 2015 will play for australia haha
 
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