Eligibility Rules, Okay

[NeverFeltBetter]

FIFA upholds the original decision: https://www.fifa.com/legal/media-rel...er-byron-david

...the player was to be considered as holding permanent Ecuadorian nationality in accordance with art. 5 par. 1 of the FIFA Regulations Governing the Application of the Statutes.

I'm assuming they meant Article 15, part one of which reads:

Any person holding the nationality of a country is eligible to play forthe representative teams of the Association of his country. TheExecutive Committee shall decide on the conditions of eligibilityfor any Player who assumes a new nationality and for whom par. 3of this article does not apply, or for any Player who would, in principle, be eligible to play for the teams of more than one Associationdue to his nationality

I suppose the point here is that Castillo is, by Ecuadorian law, considered to have been an Ecuadorian citizen since birth, regardless of what has been said in any recording.

Chile are now going to CAS. Ecuador is due to open the World Cup in 65 days.

[tetsujin1979]

There's been a change in the eligibility rules for British clubs signing foreign players, outlined on the42 here
https://www.the42.ie/ireland-brexit-...93594-Jun2023/

[Olé Olé]

https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/spo...585952490.html

Michael O'Neill speaks publicly about Ronan Hale switching his allegiance from Ireland to NI.

[elatedscum]

Call him up, John O’Shea…

[tetsujin1979]

Off topic posts deleted.
The long-held policy of the forum is to refer to the national side as Ireland, unless clarification is needed, in which case "Republic of Ireland" is used.

[Predator]

A flurry of activity in the Eligibility Rules, Okay thread and I missed it.

Michael O'Neill openly talking about poaching players from his neighbouring association. Anyone have the number for CAS?

[EalingGreen]

A flurry of activity in the Eligibility Rules, Okay thread and I missed it.

Michael O'Neill openly talking about poaching players from his neighbouring association. Anyone have the number for CAS?

It really is a shame you missed it, for you mightn't be so far from the mark in your comments.

Namely, after he was asked about Ronan Hale by some local journalist looking for an angle, he replied:
"I wouldn’t pick a player unless he had committed to do an international transfer. The fact is we could pick him and play him, but it wouldn’t really count for anything. I don’t think that would send the right message to the rest of the squad."

Damned funny way of "poaching", eh?

P.S. He hasn't even spoken to the player - it's up to the player to speak to him.