Arteta would consider playing for England

[Gully]

I suppose that my view is the more traditional one, that you should have been born in a country or have direct links to it via your parents to qualify as an international, or possibly have spent the majority of your life there. This would allow someone who came to the UK as an infant, when the choice was not theirs, to qualify...thus allowing someone who was a refugee having severed all links with the country they were born in...but not a person who moved of their own choice as an adult...like Arteta.

 

[Pavilionaire]

If Arteta plays for England then the FA would have sunk to a new low. On that basis I expect it to happen.

 

[Sam Ovett]

Eduardo ---> Croatia...I can see negatives and positives for Arteta playing, but I think it is fair enough that he is an English citizen? and he wants to play for England.

 

[Cecil]

I'd rather get Danny Murphy, equally as good if not better.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Couldn't take it seriously personally, although he's probably got more claim to being English than that South African wanker Kevin Pietersen.

So Arteta has MORE than ONE English parent?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Germany pick and choose?

Podolski and Klose have lived there pretty much all their lives, Ozil and that other chap that joined Real Madrid are both German by birth, as are the Boatengs. Except the Pikey chav one chose to play for Ghana.

Was watching Aaron Hunt play the other night....could it be the next Owen Hargreaves? - No....the krauts have already capped him.

And Cacau?

Born in BRAZIL, to BRAZILIAN parents, grew up in BRAZIL, and moved to Germany in his twenties, and was awarded German citizenship at the age of 27, making his debut a few weeks later...

Cacau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[FlownWest]

I also got the impression from that interview that he was just being polite. I rate Arteta but we don't need to resort to bringing him into the England team - just like we didn't with Cudicini or Almunia. It's just media talk.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Of course EU rules state that he qualifies for BRITAIN, so he could play for Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland as well. Wonder if one of those would pick him, or whether he would politely refuse....

 

[keaton]

Couldn't take it seriously personally, although he's probably got more claim to being English than that South African wanker Kevin Pietersen.

Arteta's parents are both English?

 

[Del Boy]

Not in the slightest. Have you seen Murphy play recently? he has real quality in the middle. Arteta is good, but no better than Murphy and certainly not better than Gerrard or Lampard.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Of course EU rules state that he qualifies for BRITAIN, so he could play for Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland as well. Wonder if one of those would pick him, or whether he would politely refuse....

Shame Jack Charlton's not still in charge of the Republic, otherwise I'm sure MICHAEL O'TETA would get in his side...

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

sign him up and make him captain

we've been playing english players for years and look how far it's got us!

 

[Worthai Seagull]

He obviously would choose Engalnd because he wont make the Spanish side, nor England come to that as we have better available.

Apart from Lampard and Gerrard who is better ?