How will FIFAs new nationality-switching rule play out on this stage?
The recently altered FIFA rule allowing players to change national allegiance later in their career will be an issue at a youth tournament for the first time. In the past, most of the U-20 players would have been very close to their 21st birthday, after which, under the old rule, switching allegiance would not have been allowed for a youth national team player. Now, no player is cap-tied until he sees the field in a full FIFA senior international “A” match. With World Cup qualifiers winding down around the world, those “A” matches are still years away for most countries that don’t qualify for the World Cup, leaving a long window to fight over dual-national prospects, dozens of whom will be on display in Egypt. In what looks like an entirely feasible nightmare for FIFA, outstanding performances by dual-nationals could give rise to international recruiting battles as well as less endowed World Cup-bound nations possibly attempting to supplement their rosters by scouting other countries’
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