BERLIN (AP) \u2014 The German soccer federation (DFB) wants compensation when players opt to represent other countries after representing Germany at youth levels.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt simply makes no sense to me why a player who has been coached primarily at his club for five years but also by the federation as a junior partner should be able to switch national associations for free,\u201d DFB managing director Andreas Rettig told news agency dpa on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
German-born Juventus star Kenan Y\u0131ld\u0131z is a Turkish international, having played for Turkey\u2019s youth teams. Eintracht Frankfurt forward Can Uzun also turned down Germany in favor of Turkey.<\/p>\n
Former Hertha Berlin forward Ibrahim Maza, now playing for Bayer Leverkusen, plays for Algeria after appearing for Germany at youth levels. German youth internationals Muhammed Damar and Nicol\u00f2 Tresoldi are reportedly being courted by Turkey and Italy, respectively, and the Frankfurter Rundschau daily newspaper reported on Sunday that Nuremberg defender Fabio Gruber has chosen to represent Peru.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re currently checking whether there\u2019s a possibility of coaching compensation when players switch national associations, Rettig said. \u201cThis issue has not yet been addressed extensively. But coaching must be worthwhile for both sides, the player and the coach.\u201d<\/p>\n
Germany has long seen players with one or two parents born abroad opt to represent their country of their roots, while the country has also benefited from immigration as players such as \u0130lkay G\u00fcndo\u011fan, Mesut \u00d6zil, Sami Khedira and Gerald Asamoah have contributed to the national team\u2019s success.<\/p>\n
Cologne teenager Said El Mala was last week called up for Germany’s World Cup qualifiers this week and at least 12 players in the latest squad could have chosen to represent other countries. The injured Jamal Musiala chose Germany after playing for England youth teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Germany 43% of children under five years of age hold dual citizenship. When they\u2019re 10 or 12 years older they can decide, do I prefer the (German) eagle or, for example, the (Turkish) crescent moon?\u201d Rettig said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe analyzed the squad lists from the under-15s to the under-21s within the federation. The percentage there is significantly higher than the aforementioned 43%. There are age groups in which seven or eight players in the starting 11 have dual nationality.”<\/p>\n
FIFA would need to approve and enforce any system of compensation payments. Other countries like France, England, Switzerland and the Netherlands could also expect windfalls from home-grown players’ switches to other teams. <\/p>\n
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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n
Ciar\u00e1n Fahey, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (AP) \u2014 The German soccer federation (DFB) wants compensation when players opt to represent other countries after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-276346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}