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Old 03-06-2004, 12:39 PM   #1
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Fancy a game for Qatar?
FIFA favour stopping Brazilian Ailton playing for Qatar


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HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) - FIFA are in favour of stopping Brazilian striker Ailton from playing for oil-rich Qatar and of taking measures to prevent such incidents happening again, an executive committee member of soccer's world governing body said.

Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, also the president of the German football federation, said the matter was utter nonsense.

"We are of the opinion that it is ridiculous that people can acquire the nationality of a country with which they have absolutely no connection. It attacks the fundamental fabric of national teams.

"FIFA has acknowledged this abusive use of trying to change nationality (in the Ailton affair) and want to oppose it," Mayer-Vorfelder said in an interview with German news agency DPA.

The Werder Bremen striker, who leads the Bundesliga scoring charts with 20 goals this season, has accepted a money-spinning offer to help fire Qatar to the World Cup finals after being continually overlooked by Brazil.

"It's almost certain that Ailton will play with the Qatar national team in the next 2006 World Cup qualifier against Jordan on March 31," Qatar Federation deputy secretary general Majed Al-Khalifi told AFP earlier this week. He added that Ailton was expected in Doha next week.

Ailton said he was not concerned what FIFA might do. "I don't really care," he said on Friday. "I will be flying to Qatar on Monday and I will sign a contract."


Qatar buying players has just got to be great for the sport hasn't

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Old 03-07-2004, 02:32 PM   #2
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I saw that they did the same in athletics,'buying' a good runner and actually got a gold i think.

Fifa appear to be stopping this,and rightly so imo.Ailton should be able to play for Germany soon anyway,so i imagine he'll get in their squad.
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Old 03-07-2004, 04:54 PM   #3
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I remember in France 98, Thomas Dooley wasn't good enough to play for Germany so he changed nationalities to USA and started here. Whoop.
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Old 03-07-2004, 05:17 PM   #4
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Fifa should just set their own restrictions for playing for a country and not allow it to be up to the goverment of the respective countries. Make it about 5 years in the country to qualify or grandpparents/parents being from there
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Make it about 5 years in the country to qualify or grandpparents/parents being from there
Thats what they have done, i think that's been used for quite a few years now.
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Old 03-08-2004, 11:49 AM   #6
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I saw that they did the same in athletics,'buying' a good runner and actually got a gold i think.

Fifa appear to be stopping this,and rightly so imo.Ailton should be able to play for Germany soon anyway,so i imagine he'll get in their squad.
Yeah in the world championships, he changed his name as well and said that he had converted to Islam. Lol. Shirin or something his name was, he beat his old compatriot and no one was celebrating.

I'll be pretty pissed off, I think Qatar are in Iran's group. But we have another top scorer in Hashemian.Lol at him being headbutted by his own teamate.
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I remember in France 98, Thomas Dooley wasn't good enough to play for Germany so he changed nationalities to USA and started here. Whoop.
I remember Tom Dooley playing for USA 4 years before that though. And he was actually of American bloodline so that's not an issue.
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The athletics comparison isn't fair really because there are no set grounds saying who you have to represent.

There have been a lot more than one former world champion who have changed countries. Fiona May represented Great Britain in long jump for 10 years before jumping to Italy and then she won various gold medals. Merlene Ottey represented Jamaica for over 20 years before going to some Eastern European country.

In football, I personally think you should have bloodline traces to represent countries.
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