Switzerland is another Qatar in Football.

[shahname]

Look at this page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_national_football_team

and click on every single Swiss player and you will see 90% of their players are from East Europe, primarily from Albania and Bosnia!!!

[persiangodfather]

difference is these people live in switzerland and maybe their families moved to the country.. qatar brings players for the purpose of playing on the team

[Kiarash]

If one is born and raised in the country of who he is playing for then it's absolutely no problem at all.

Qatar is importing players from Africa and South America which is totally different.

[persepolisfan]

A lot of those guys are refuges or just regular immigrants looking for a peaceful life.
Go Switzerland! Although they are down, I think they can put in a couple.

[persianballer]

There's nothing wrong with that. It's the same with all European teams, look at Germany.

[shahname]

[persiangodfather]

so team USA 100% are kids from immigrant parents lol

thats whats happens in a normal country.. iran is not normal

maybe we can have some afghan or iraqi players in our team since those are the only ones comming to iran

[ARARAT]

The western countries are at the forefront of dilution of pure national identity. That is why you see non-original Swiss players playing for their NT. Same with Germany, England, Italy, Belgium, France, and Holland. Spain field the purest ethnic team of the so called western states. Qatar is owned and operated by the British not the local rulers so they have that system of having Brazilian players playing for their NT.

[AllStarMomo]

France?

[Asghar Agha]

France?

I think apart Patrice Evra who arrived in France when he was four or five years old, the rest is born in France (some are third generation immigrant).

[rezabmehr]

In another 30 to 40 years, integration will play a big part in most nations. I have no problem with it. Qatar on the other hand has always played dirty and wants to buy their way into everything.

[dejagah_fan]

25% of the swiss population are foreigners.. and there are a loooot people with swiss passport but originally from another country

[AllStarMomo]

I think apart Patrice Evra who arrived in France when he was four or five years old, the rest is born in France (some are third generation immigrant).

I know that many (if not most) are raised in France. I just wanted to name france just to show that there is almost no team with "pure" national players

[Zamboor]

racist PFDC strikes back!

[Keano]

It's because unlike Iran, most Western countries have been the new homes of many foreigners who immigrated to these countries and got their citizenship. In the west once you become a citizen, then you equally gain all privileges and advantages of any other citizen of the respective country, there will not be any discrimination of any sort, every citizen by law is to be treated equally, and that includes getting invited to their national teams.

I think Iran is the only nation in the world that morally denounces and denies such simple privileges.

One of the main attributions to this mentality is Iran and Iranians extreme nationalism and prejudice.