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Serbia v Switzerland / Friday / 1900 BST


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3 minutes ago, PMLF said:

He is really playing for the wrong national team.

Nah. Just like Shaqiri he had played for the Swiss for quite some time before he got the possibility to play for Kosovo. Fairly sure both had picked Kosovo if that had been an option when they broke through.

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1 minute ago, Mr Wallin said:

Nah. Just like Shaqiri he had played for the Swiss for quite some time before he got the possibility to play for Kosovo. Fairly sure both had picked Kosovo if that had been an option when they broke through.

No, they wouldn't.

They would have picked Kosovo if it was a better NT, though.

Same goes for Ozil, Gundogan, etc. They'd play for Turkey if Turkey was a better team.

Rakitić picked Croatia because it's the better team. Gavranović could never break through.

The only guy who didn't pick the best team was Zlatan.

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10 minutes ago, GunmaN1905 said:

The only guy who didn't pick the best team was Zlatan.

Pretty sure that he, technically, never have qualified for any other team than Sweden. Also pretty sure that if the Croatian NT would have wanted him they would have sorted the needed passport quick enough.

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1 minute ago, Mr Wallin said:

Pretty sure that he, technically, never have qualified for any other team than Sweden. Also pretty sure that if the Croatian NT would have wanted him they would have sorted the needed passport quick enough.

Yes he qualified for both Croatia and Bosnia.

His mother is Croatian and his father is Bosnian. Both immigrants born in their respective countries.

He turned both FAs down and said that he feels Swedish because they gave him everything.

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2 minutes ago, GunmaN1905 said:

Yes he qualified for both Croatia and Bosnia.

His mother is Croatian and his father is Bosnian. Both immigrants born in their respective countries.

He turned both FAs down and said that he feels Swedish because they gave him everything.

Yeah I had to point out to someone elsewhere the difference between identifying with your ethnicity and with nationality. Xhaka is ethnically Kosovar-Albanian and obviously supports their cause, but probably still feels more Swiss himself.

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