It's quite simple. Looking at the German, Dutch and Spanish squads it becomes fairly obvious.

Play foreigners.

The Dutch have Boulahrouz (Morroccan decent) and Braafheid (Suriname).

The Spanish have Iniesta, Xavi, Pique, Busquets, Valdez (all Catalan) and Llorente and Martinez (Basque) - which would be independant if the politicans and ETA had their way. Not to mention that Senna has been a mainstay in previous seasons

The Germans have Trochowski (Polish), Klose (polish), Podolski (polish), Khedira (tunisian), Boateng (Ghanaian), Aogo (Nigerian), Ozil (Turkish), Cacau (Brazilian), Marin (Serbian) and Gomez (Spanish).

When 10 of your 23 man squad could have played for another country - Kudos to your recruitment.

Maybe we need to be stealing more foreign players :-k

Interesting you mention Holland, considering Braafheid hasn't played at all IIRC, and Boulahrouz only has 180 minutes of game time.

How many of those players were Nationalised though, and not just players who chose to player for the country?

Yeah, but they're in the squad. Cacau, Klose, Trochowski, Podolski and Marin have all been born outside of Germany. The other 5 have foreign parents.

Point is, how many Australians have we lost because of this? Players like Johnson and Simunic, etc. And how many players could we have had playing for us? Eg. Vieri.

Look how far this approach has got an unheralded German side. And they're only going to get better.

Yes, we could find the next ronaldo living in Samoa! :lol:

The next Tim Cahill if nothing else :P

lol doc. You could be onto something there.

EDIT: Page stretch fail.

Edited by Funky Munky: 12/7/2010 12:02:16 AM

cheat?

Hire Vidmar as full time manager?

Increase immigration from Latin America.:lol:

sounds good.. we need more zebra girl, paraguay hot chick etc etc


or we could just surrender our country to one of the top footballing nations. brazil sounds about right for 2014 or we can invade them, either way... :P

I think we may have just found a new 'Pacific Solution'. Lets swap these boat people for Brazilians. How to they feel about Indians in Brazil?