Catalonia vs. Tunisia HELP!!!

[Pedram88]

Catalonia vs. Tunisia has a game farda and i have a question i look on Catalonia wiki and most of the players that play for barcelona play for catalonia
but on fifa rule it said a player could only play for 1 national team
how come they could play for 2??

[Kamal0098]

Catalonia = Spain!
its considered as one country !
its like kish in iran having a footbal teams!

[soniq]

I dont think Catalonia is an official FIFA team, so its like Tunisia is playing a team off the records in a way i guess.

Interesting enough I think Catalonia is managed by Cryuff

[soniq]

Current squad

The following players have been called up for the match against Tunisia in 2011.

GK Kiko Casilla 2 January 1986 (age 25) 2 0 Espanyol GK 14 January 1982 (age 29) 12 0 Barcelona DF 2 February 1987 (age 24) 5 0 Barcelona DF 14 April 1991 (age 20) 0 0 Barcelona B DF Jordi Amat 21 March 1992 (age 19) 0 0 Espanyol DF 14 November 1989 (age 22) 2 0 Barcelona DF 9 June 1989 (age 22) 0 0 Espanyol DF Carles Puyol 12 April 1978 (age 33) 6 0 Barcelona DF 22 September 1987 (age 24) 0 0 Espanyol MF Sergio Busquets 16 July 1988 (age 23) 4 0 Barcelona MF 4 May 1987 (age 24) 2 0 Barcelona MF Sergio Juste 12 January 1992 (age 19) 0 0 MF 5 May 1983 (age 28) 8 2 Espanyol MF Xavi 25 January 1980 (age 31) 8 2 Barcelona MF Marc Muniesa 27 March 1992 (age 19) 0 0 Barcelona MF Sergi Roberto 21 August 1992 (age 19) 0 0 Barcelona MF Albert Puigdollers 30 October 1980 (age 31) 0 0 Sabadell FW Bojan Krkić 28 August 1990 (age 21) 5 5 Roma FW Ferran Corominas 5 January 1983 (age 28) 8 1 Girona FW 9 June 1983 (age 28) 9 5 Espanyol FW Isaac Cuenca 27 April 1991 (age 20) 0 0 Barcelona B FW 27 April 1991 (age 20) 2 0 Espanyol

[Nokhodi]

As soniq said, they're not really a national team and not recognized by FIFA. If you remember even TM once played against Galicia (sp?), which is also a province of Spain.

[Martin-Reza]

As said, it's not a FIFA national team and therefore the matches they play are not official matches. Spain "allows" the Cataluns, the Basques, the Galicians etc. to play friendly matches at the end of each year. Like Nokhodi said, we once played Galicia too, but it wasn't an official match. It was a good one though.

However, due to lack of connection to Iranian football, this thread is closed now.