Comments on: Global Political Economy and Team Selection: Mexico and Qatar

By: Pro

Pro — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:13:02 +0000

I think what qatar is doing is okay.
they do have a limited pool and i never heard about the faroese or icelanders winning a match.
I´m uruguayan and i never heard about sebastian soria before so its not affecting our selection. i did some research and the guy was not even a rotation player in one of uruguay’s cinderella teams.

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By: David

David — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:37:52 +0000

Regarding Ozil, he’s Turkish-German, a group I’ve written about previously.

By: g

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:58:48 +0000

Mark: the thing about the four players you named playing for Germany in some form right now is that none of them obtained German citizenship just to play football for Germany, without having any form of connection to the country.

Klose and Podolski both moved to Germany with their families when they were practically toddlers. Kuranyi’s father is German-Hungarian, and Ozil was born in Germany.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:34:13 +0000

You should look at the German nation team! The names Klose, Podolski, Ozil, Kuranyi came out right now and I’m sure if you do a bit more in depth research you’ll find more. Do they complain? Hell no! since they’re successful.

By: Johannes Birgir Jensson

Johannes Birgir Jensson — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:23:08 +0000

Qatars pool isn’t as small as they make it out to be, for an Asian country it is miniscule but compared to Europe it would sit snugly well above the bottom.

Iceland has a population of around 300.000, the Faroese are somewhere around 70.000 and both have caused upsets in the European competitions. Several more countries have such a limited pool.

By: Jason.Burke,Murphy

Jason.Burke,Murphy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:17:54 +0000

From the list of where Qatar’s immigrants originate, someone should look into forming a national cricket team.

How was FIFA able to justify their rejection of some players while they allow others?

When the players are ones that aren’t likely to play for their “original” countries, then these movements only improve international football. What is worrisome is the idea of such a squad being bought.

The international game is nice because it is organized another way besides the club and player market. Rich countries have an advantages, sure, but Argentinians and Brazilians “come home” (along with the French and Dutch and US’ers…) when they assemble for their countries.

If they play in Qatar, then some commitment and connection has been made and there is less that worries me.