FIFA to effect changes to the rules guiding player's nationality switch after representing another country at junior level

 

    FIFA is currently looking into several options in their bid to effect changes to the rules guiding players’ nationality switch after representing another country at junior level.

   Head of FIFA stakeholders committee Victor Montagliani confirmed that, they are looking into the rule, which currently forbids players who have played a competitive international game for one team from switching to another national side even when they hold dual nationality.

   Already the Cape Verde football federation has proposed for the rule to be relaxed especially when the player has only featured in few games, for his original side, but has no chance of earning a recall.

   However, FIFA only allows players to represent a country with no blood relation if they have played and lived there for five years, a rule which Montagliani said could be reviewed into changing the period probably extending it.

   The other option the Montagliani lead committee is looking at is a compensation scheme in cases where a player goes through the training system of one country and represents it at youth level before switching to another.