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Christian Mosquera is an English arsenal footballer, born in Spain, from Colombian parents and whose favorite program is “The Challenge.” Why don't you play with Colombia? Simple. Because he said he wanted to play with Spain. But this is not necessarily the end of the story.
100 years ago it was relatively common to play with two national teams. Famous is the case of the Oriundi, Argentine players, champions with Italy in 1934: Monti, Orsi, Guaita and Atilio Demaria. Everyone played before with Argentina, and in the case of Monti, he also played the 1930 World Cup final.
In 1962 FIFA prohibited playing in two selections. Once a footballer represented a selection in an official match approved by FIFA (so he was a friendly), he could never play with another selection.
Thus it was until 2020. Before, in 2014, during a match of the qualifying phase to the Eurocup, with Spain a young man in Barcelona debuted: Munir El-Haddadi. Son of Moroccan father and Spanish mother, Munir could choose who to play with. Given the potential of the footballer, and since they already won 4-1 to Macedonia, Spain gave Munir in the 77th minute. With this action they guaranteed that Munir could only play with the Spanish team.
It was not the first time this was done. The most famous case was Messi. In Argentina, rumors about a crack that emerged in Spain reached the AFA around 2004. They organized a party with “FIFA form” between the Argentine sub-20 and the Paraguayan to ensure that Messi always played with Argentina.
The races of Munir and Messi, of course, have been very different. If Messi won everything, Munir never dressed the red. Instead, the Moroccan team asked. But the norm prevented it.
So, after the demands, requests and pleas of rigor, in 2020 the FIFA changed the norm. If a footballer does not play with a first selection more than three games before the age of 21, he does not represent it in the final phase of a World Cup or continental tournament, and if he has not played with the first team for more than three years, he can play with a second always, of course, that he is eligible. Munir, who debuted with Spain with less than 21 years, could eventually play with Morocco.
Mosquera is 21 years old, that is, if he plays a match with the absolute selection of Spain he will not be able to play with Colombia. But in Spain are Le Normand, Cubarsí, Huijsen and even lived clearly above him, which even complicates his presence in the World Cup. Lorenzo, on the other hand, can guarantee the call, and playing in Arsenal, where he is not yet indisputable, he can play his first World Cup. Who would not be excited to play his first World Cup with 21 years? Or is it that you prefer to wait at 25? The Federation should press Mosquera, convince him of his yellow future and organize that party.
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