While things like Diego Costa who already played for Brazil is utter bullshit and him wanting to play at the WC or get paid by Spain to play for them. A player who wants to play for a country he feels a connection in I don't really have an issue for. Like if your adopted, you lived in that country your whole life or your wife and kids are from that country.
Too many players are using NT soccer for better club deals which kind of sucks. Also when countries bend their naturalization rules for certain players that they wouldn't do for any other citizen.
at the end of the day the WC is the big dance. Champions league is the prom but the WC is your wedding. It sucks never making it to prom but not having a wedding is a even bigger deal. Players get like ladies. O Shit I'm 27 I need to get on that. Let me play for X random country that will play me.
Equatorial Guinea in Africa that randomly calls us South American players, it has a bunch of random shitty Brazilian,Spanish, Colombian, Ecuadorian players on that team. Look at their team its all foreign players haha. They still suck
Naturalised players controversy
For more details on this topic, see List of naturalised Equatoguinean international football players.
In recent years, Equatorial Guinea has courted controversy by recruiting foreign players and giving them citizenship despite having little or no ties to the country. In 2009, South African journalist and FIFA archivist Mark Gleeson wrote that it was undermining the integrity of African football.[9]
In late 2005 and at the request of Ruslán Obiang Nsue, a son of President Teodoro Obiang, Brazilian coach Antônio Dumas recruited several Brazilian players to represent the Equatorial Guinea but CAF and FIFA turned a blind eye, despite complaints from other nations.
In 2012, having lost the first leg of a 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualification round 4-0 to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea recruited nine Brazilian players to help overturn the deficit for the second leg. Democratic Republic of the Congo head coach Claude Le Roy complained that that the Equatorial Guinea were acting like the United Nations of football.
Before the arrival of new coach Andoni Goikoetxea to Malabo, in March 2013, the Equatoguinean board made the squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Cape Verde and called nine Brazilian players again.[10] In May 2013, they joined Colombian-born Ecuadorian-based Jimmy Bermúdez, to who was going to pay him € 3,000 for each match he plays.[11]