A question, oh Swiss guru. Why do the Feltschers (yes, I snigger every time) play for Venezuela? I feel as though you have explained this before, and I didn't pay attention. (Giving myself detention for this forthwith.) Also, apparently cute Fernando AmoebaAmorebieta and his socks plays for them, too. Despite being Basque (you do have to be Basque to play for Bilbao, don't you? Or am I mixing up my La Liga regional attributes?)
I thought ESPN Soccernet were trolling me at first.
The Feltschers have a Venezuelan mum, that's why. Practically all the Swiss team are second-generation immigrants, hence the Albanian flag at training; I count four people of Albanian origin in this call-up alone, plus a Cape Verdean, a Chilean, a Macedonian, a Nigerian, a Turk and a Kurd. Plus there may be others I've missed out cos I don't recognise them. Not bad, eh?
Mr Amoeba! Hahahaha! Should have put him in the animals spam, along with Pato, whose name turned into "pathogen" in Estonian. His wiki says he was born in Venezuela, so he obviously qualifies. *Tries to phrase this next bit delicately* Is he a bit, er, crap? Because I can see how if your choices were Spain or Venezuela, the Venezuelan option would give you a hell of a lot more chance of a call-up.
Trolling you? Oh, were they on about Cavani's mate burning his trousers as well?
Ah, that makes sense, thank you, it's just...if they play their club football in Europe Venezuela seems like a heck of a trek for national call-ups.
Teehee, perhaps you should try and create a Miniature Organisms team, it could be the start of a series! :p To be honest, I don't know if he's crap or not--but it does seem that the Spanish team is pretty well cemented, so even if you're awesome if you're not in it already you're probably shafted.
(Haha, no--just the fact that they were listing two Swiss and a Spaniard in the Venezuelan line-up. I thought they might have been doing it to see if anyone noticed.)
Well, they'll not be alone; I suppose all non-European footballers must have that problem, since presumably the vast majority of them aspire to play in Europe. Awkward. For them, though, I suspect it might be national pride and that. Kuzi elected to play for Serbia for the same reason (or so he says).
Ha! Angua would love it! Oh, and I've just remembered that directly after the Feltschers joined Venezuela beat Argentina for the first time ever, so their recruit-all-the-Swiss-and-Spaniards plan is probably working.
(Uh, not entirely sure whence that random enter-linebreak came, sorry about that. And thank you for your good vibes. Your beaming face makes everything brighter. ♥)
I thought ESPN Soccernet were trolling me at first.
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Mr Amoeba! Hahahaha! Should have put him in the animals spam, along with Pato, whose name turned into "pathogen" in Estonian. His wiki says he was born in Venezuela, so he obviously qualifies. *Tries to phrase this next bit delicately* Is he a bit, er, crap? Because I can see how if your choices were Spain or Venezuela, the Venezuelan option would give you a hell of a lot more chance of a call-up.
Trolling you? Oh, were they on about Cavani's mate burning his trousers as well?
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Teehee, perhaps you should try and create a Miniature Organisms team, it could be the start of a series! :p To be honest, I don't know if he's crap or not--but it does seem that the Spanish team is pretty well cemented, so even if you're awesome
if you're not in it already you're probably shafted.
(Haha, no--just the fact that they were listing two Swiss and a Spaniard in the Venezuelan line-up. I thought they might have been doing it to see if anyone noticed.)
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Ha! Angua would love it! Oh, and I've just remembered that directly after the Feltschers joined Venezuela beat Argentina for the first time ever, so their recruit-all-the-Swiss-and-Spaniards plan is probably working.
(Am beaming good vibes in your direction.)
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(Uh, not entirely sure whence that random enter-linebreak came, sorry about that. And thank you for your good vibes. Your beaming face makes everything brighter. ♥)
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