Yorkshire International Football Teeam

What next??


David Harrison
@DaveHarrisonBBC

Here's the kit for the newly formed #Yorkshire international football team. Looks good @YorksIFA


4:35 pm · 22 Oct 2017

 

Bring it on. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to assemble a team which would beat England. John Stones and Marc Roberts at the heart of the the defence would be a great start.

 

Isn't Stones already committed to England now? I know its a complete impossibility, but whats happens when a country splits up? - Can the players choose which one to represent?

 

It's an interesting question. I'm sure that Pique knows the answer, as he seems like he'd be keen to play for a Catalan side if the situation ever arose. Andrei Kanchelskis played for the newly independent Russian team after the Soviet Union collapsed, despite being Ukrainian.

 

Must have been something similar with the Czech/Slovakia players when Czechoslovakia divorced. Although my knowledge of Eastern European international football in the early 90s is quite limited to Stoichkov and he was Bulgarian so nowhere near either of those.

 

I guess the difference is that the USSR players had all represented a team that no longer existed, whereas Spain will still exist if Catalonia breaks away. I wonder if any present Kosovo players ever represented Serbia. Certainly the situation in the Balkans was very complex, as I seem to remember Yugoslavia continued fielding a team even after the country had broken up.

 

I'd guess it would mean non English people who have found theree way to Yorkshire... Should fit hand in glove with the new Yorkshire parliament that nobody voted fot

 

Samir Ujkani played for Albania at Euro 2016 and now starts in goal for Kosovo.

When a 'new' country comes into international football, players get a choice whether to continue with, in this case, Albania, or to switch to, in this case, Kosovo.

Switzerland were worried they were going to lose Xherdan Shaqiri to Kosovo, but he elected to carry on with the Swiss.

Just wait until Wallonia splits from Belgium...

 

I’m pretty certain they can, I’m sure some have left other Balkan countries where they were capped to play for Kosovo & Montenegro

 

Thanks for that info mate. Very interesting.

 

Yep. One example being Mirko Vucinic. I think he played when Argentina beat Serbia and Montenegro 6-0 or 6-1 in a World Cup finals match. Argentina scored one of their goals after a 20-odd-pass build-up.

My memory is sketchy, but I think that World Cup was the last time Serbia and Montenegro played as a team. They soon split into Serbia, and Montenegro (as opposed to Serbia and Montenegro )and Vucinic opted for Montenegro.

 

That's nudger done then, he's always wanted a team called tykes to follow.

 

《This same grit had people gleefully declaring that, were Yorkshire its own country, it would have finished 12th in the medal table at the 2012 London Olympics, thanks to the White Rose athletes’ collective haul of seven golds, two silvers and three bronzes.

But the Yorkshire international football team plan is no joke, no fantasy; the people behind it have bid for membership of Conifa, an organisation for states and regions not acknowledged by the international footballing body Fifa. And it’s a move symptomatic of Yorkshire’s growing appetite to be recognised as the powerful force it deserves to be: not just in terms of sporting achievement, but as a people in control of its own destiny... and purse-strings.》
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/l...thern-powerhouse-george-osborne-a8015556.html

 

Bit odd wanting an independent Yorkshire when a lot of the time we waste valuable time and effort disliking our fellow county men. I bet our police force would be the envy of err nobody.

 

Who designed that kit, a lovely person?