Why non-European football players are allowed to play in European Champions League?
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The European Champions League consists of clubs from member nations of UEFA.\nIndividual teams can play foreigners they have signed in accordance with their own FA's rules on foreigners. (e.g. A British club who is not likly to get a work permit for a player would probably not buy him just to play him in away Champions League Games )
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It depends.\n\nIf you´re talking aboout UEFA using only the European players, or if you´re talking about using the players registered in UEFA.  In the second case, it would then be UEFA, because that´s where all the good ones play.  If u mean only Eurpean players, than the rest of the world is by far the better one.  Because the European leagues have more an more foreign players as starters, and the native players are all relegated to bench players, or even third string.  Take the German league for example, where the only publicized player that is actually German is Ballack, the rest are Brazilian, Egyptian, Iranian, and Marrocan and all sorts of other African nationalities.  THe French league is full of Africans as well as Brazilians, look at 5 time defending champ Lyon...(Juninho Pernambucano, Fred, Chris, Caçapa) 4 Brazilians in their starting lineup, the rest are African, with 2 or 3 french players.  Chelsea, full of Africans and Argentines.  Arsenal, full of French and french African players.  Barcelona(Ronaldinho Gaúcho, Belleti, Thiago Motta, Deco, Sylvinho, Edmilson) all brazilians, Giuly, French, Eto´o Cameroonian, Gio, Dutch, Larsson, Swedish, Messi, Argentine, Maxi Lopez, Argentine, only Puyol and Victor Valdes are actually Spanish on their starting lineup.  Not to mention Real Madrid, which has an all South AMerican team, with four Brazilian nationals.  The list goes on, and also, if you coount world cups per trophies, South America has taken it home more times. Argentina and Uruguay 2 each, Brazil 5=9.  Europe, Italy and Germany 3 each, England and France, 1 each=8.\n\nWorld Club championships, South America 22, Europe 20.\n\nSo the rest of the world is better, but it depends how u look at it, to see how dominant the rest of the world is.
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FIFA allows nationalized players to play for their "adoptive" country.  In cases of double nationalities, the players can choose which country to represent.\n\nThis happens very, very often and usually because of one of these two reasons:\n\na)  A player is very very good (e.g. Klose, Podolski) and would definitely make the team in either of its two nationality countries.  Commonly he would choose to play in the "bigger" team since that would allow him a better shot at say, winning the World Cup.\n\nb)  The player is good enough to make it to the national team of his adoptive country but not his country of birth. (e.g.  Guille Franco).  He was born in Argentina but there is no way on Earth he would be chosen for that team, he just wouldn't cut it.  After he nationalized Mexican, he was immediately chosen for the Mexican squad and he now can afford to play in the world cup and is actually one of the better players of that team.
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Well as you know the premier league is highly competitive and it requires every player to give it all they have. It is unfortunate the situation England is. All I can say is the players are not only dedicated to their country, they are also dedicated to the team(s) they play for.
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As noted above, players coming to the UK from other EU member nations don't require a permit.\nPlayers coming from outside of EU member countries must come from a nation ranked inside the top 70 by FIFA, and that player must have played in at least 75% of the international games the country has participated in over the last 2 years
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not really .. i think it's all down to the importance of the games they play as well ... look at wayne rooney and john terry in the Chelsea vs Man Utd game ... It all boils down to the player .. where does your duty to the club you are playing for and your duty playing for your country end and the other begin?
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They need to put more players on the european football to get experience and build up their bodies, that's where the best players are playing and where they face world-class players all the time.\n\nLike Zico said, the asian teams will never go further if they don't get more players playing in the world-class teams.\n\nOne choice would be to start importing players, and make their internal championships full of starts, then they would get the know-how required. They have to drop nationalism on clubs to achieve that.
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As much as I would like to be patriotic and see English players, I think we want to watch the best players in the English Premier League. This increases the value of the competition and players born in England will need to raise their standards to match the foreign competition. Arsenal play attractive attacking football so it is obviously working for them. Limiting non-English players will not work, apart from being racist, it will reduce the standards of the clubs.
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Here's the UEFA ruling: Paragraph 1.03 of "Regulations of the UEFA Champions League 2005/06"\n At the request of the national association concerned, the UEFA Champions League title-holders may be entered for this competition, as an additional representative of that association, if they have not qualified for the UEFA Champions League via the top domestic league championship. If in such a case, the title-holders come from an association entitled to enter four teams for the UEFA Champions League, the fouth-placed club in the top domestic league championship has to be entered for the UEFA Cup.
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Not completely right but you are onto something. The important thing is that players are challenged in their own leagues. Some of the best leagues in the world are in Europe, but You should also consider others like Brazil, Argentina and Mexico as very competitive leagues.
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Because this could be dangerous for the other players or for the player himself.\nIt is FIFA's 4th Law of The Game.
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No they are not allowed, it will kill the passion in the game. controversial decisions is what make football so exciting
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Feck. I spent a long time typing my previous answer, only for Yahoo to delete it!\n\nChampions League is for the top teams of a domestic league to participate in. Depending on the country's coefficent the league might get a maximum of up to 4 slots. Currently the countries with 4 slots are Spain, England and Italy. Next are France, Germany and Portugal with three slots, and so on.\n\nUEFA cup is for the teams finishing directly outside the CL spots in the league and also the winners of the domestic cup. This comes from the old Cup Winners' Cup, with was absorbed into the UEFA Cup in 1999.  If there is an additional League Cup (like in England) then the winners of that will go into the UEFA Cup too.\n\nAgain, coefficents determines the number of UEFA Cup slots each country gets. Most of the top leagues have three, but Holland and Greece each have four, which they allocate to the cup holders and the teams finishing below the CL spots, i.e. 3rd, 4th and 5th. (They both have two CL spots).\n\nExample:\nEngland - Top 4 qualifies for CL. 5th plus FA Cup winner plus League Cup winner qualifies for UEFA Cup. If either cup winner qualifies for the CL then 6th in the league gets the UEFA slot. If both cup winners make the CL then 7th place gets the UEFA Cup spot as well.\n\nSpain - Top 4 qualifies for CL. 5th and 6th plus cup winner makes the UEFA cup. Same rule applies if cup winners makes the CL.\n\nHope that is clear enough!
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None, FIFA rules were explicit, only 23 players for team, no more and no less, thats why teams like Spain, Argentina, Netherlands, Mexico and others had some problems because they didnt called all of their players and they had to keep some good players at home
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I highly doubt it.  They only have one player on their squad from international play and that makes it very hard to qualify against players who get so much competition in Premier league, Serie A, and Spanish Primera.  They haven't gotten past the first round and thats call for inexperience.
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that's the only time when the players of a certain country play together as a team. at other time they are busy making money with millionaire clubs like real madrid and chelsea!
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When you say 'play in Europe' - do you mean proper European competition? And are we talking home or away games?\n\nI'm guessing a little but the first European club competition was the European Cup which began in 1955-56 season (although with no English clubs). The season after that (1956-57) Manchester United competed and their game was a preliminary match away to Anderlecht (Man Utd won 12-0!). They then played at home versus Borussia Dortmund. Their next to fixtures were away games against Athletic Bilbao, and then losing to Real Madrid in the semi finals.\n\nI'm just trying to decide if the Anderlecht stadium has flood lights from the 2nd link in the sources! It was called the Emile Verse Stadion.\n\nThe first match with floodlights ever was held in 1878. I think Sheffield United's was the first ground to have them in Europe.