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FIFA eligibility rules

melbcityguy said:
How do you keep up with so much?
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rebelliousfeminist974 said:
It's likely @HonestSpursFan checks the FIFA change of association platform most days or even every day to keep up to date with which players are jumping ship to different associations.
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Great question. RebFem is right, I check it every day once or twice to see who switches just in case we gain or lose someone. Three switches in one day is interesting, though we are coming up to an international window for the World Cup so I’m not too surprised.
 
CJ dos Santos and Keyrol Figueroa have jumped ship from the United States to Cape Verde and Honduras respectively, whilst Matias Fernandez-Pardo has switched to Belgium from Spain and Omar Carabali has switched to Ecuador from Chile.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
CJ dos Santos and Keyrol Figueroa have jumped ship from the United States to Cape Verde and Honduras respectively, whilst Matias Fernandez-Pardo has switched to Belgium from Spain and Omar Carabali has switched to Ecuador from Chile.
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Saw this yesterday but forgot to post here. MFP’s switch to Spain last year was completely useless as he never played for Spain despite two call-ups for the under-20 and under-21 teams. Now he’s gone back to Belgium and could be at the World Cup.
 
Ayyoub Bouaddi switched from France to Morocco. He’ll surely be at the World Cup with them!
 
JS96 said:
I don't doubt that. I think there needs to be a rule about nationality changes so close to a tournament.
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There really should be. Should have to be either during or before qualifiers or after a tournament.
 
NicCarBel said:
That one made sense though, as Kosovo only had just been granted membership by FIFA. Serbia and Montenegro became officially separate in the eyes of FIFA after the 2006 World Cup.
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Yeah I think a couple players did that because the Kosovo national team didn’t exist prior to then. If it happened now it would be weird though.

My guess is he has family across the border as you said which I’m sure isn’t too uncommon (Montenegro’s a pretty small country and it’s right next door to Serbia, plus both countries share a similar culture and language and follow the same religion), but it seems weird when Montenegro has only a small player pool while Serbia could pick a lot more players than some Montenegrin guy.

The weirdest ones I’ve seen though are Samoa to American Samoa or the other way around. It’s happened multiple times.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Cassandra Bogere, who is currently teammates with Mackenzie Arnold at Portland Thorns, has jumped ship from Norway to Sweden.
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Another weird one. A loss for Norway and I don’t know if Sweden will play her. While in the men’s game Norway are now clearly stronger than Sweden, in the women’s game it’s always been the opposite.
 
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