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What is Diego Costa's claim to being Spanish. Unless I am misunderstanding something, he is fully raised in Brazil and never even saw Spain until he was an adult. FIFA needs to ban this sort of thing. Unless someone has proven lineage in the new nation or moved there before attaining professional status, they should not be allowed to change football nationalities unless there are extenuating circumstances. "Being a talented footballer" is not a satisfactory reason. It is the same nonsense Holland tried to pull with Saloman Kalou all of those years ago.

 

Costa never played professionally in Brazil actually.

 

Doing this kind of thing is not something I like, but ultimately if the player wishes to play for Spain and is a Spanish national I don't see it being that big of an issue.

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What is Diego Costa's claim to being Spanish. Unless I am misunderstanding something, he is fully raised in Brazil and never even saw Spain until he was an adult. FIFA needs to ban this sort of thing. Unless someone has proven lineage in the new nation or moved there before attaining professional status, they should not be allowed to change football nationalities unless there are extenuating circumstances. "Being a talented footballer" is not a satisfactory reason. It is the same nonsense Holland tried to pull with Saloman Kalou all of those years ago.

 

Costa never played professionally in Brazil actually.

 

Doing this kind of thing is not something I like, but ultimately if the player wishes to play for Spain and is a Spanish national I don't see it being that big of an issue.

He was brought to Portugal and started his career there as an adult from what I can gather. This case isn't particularly egregious admittedly, but under the current rules there is nothing stopping some desperate country from creating lax nationalisation laws for athletes and and simple creating a national team that is really just an all-star foreign side from their local league.

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What is Diego Costa's claim to being Spanish. Unless I am misunderstanding something, he is fully raised in Brazil and never even saw Spain until he was an adult. FIFA needs to ban this sort of thing. Unless someone has proven lineage in the new nation or moved there before attaining professional status, they should not be allowed to change football nationalities unless there are extenuating circumstances. "Being a talented footballer" is not a satisfactory reason. It is the same nonsense Holland tried to pull with Saloman Kalou all of those years ago.

 

Costa never played professionally in Brazil actually.

 

Doing this kind of thing is not something I like, but ultimately if the player wishes to play for Spain and is a Spanish national I don't see it being that big of an issue.

He was brought to Portugal and started his career there as an adult from what I can gather. This case isn't particularly egregious admittedly, but under the current rules there is nothing stopping some desperate country from creating lax nationalisation laws for athletes and and simple creating a national team that is really just an all-star foreign side from their local league.

 

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If you're like me you're crazy for graphs. Goals allowed/shots faced and goals scored/shots attempted for the first six games (didn't do these  found them on reddit):

attack:

http://i.imgur.com/aNFsx0d.png

 

defense:

http://i.imgur.com/gbkCf6Q.png

 

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If you're like me you're crazy for graphs. Goals allowed/shots faced and goals scored/shots attempted for the first six games (didn't do these  found them on reddit):

attack:

http://i.imgur.com/aNFsx0d.png

 

defense:

http://i.imgur.com/gbkCf6Q.png

so if I'm reading the 2nd one right (I'm open to correction) we are reasonably good at restricting chances but defense is cocking up on the ones that to happen

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