View Full Version : Making a national team
Brad51992
08-19-2006, 07:24 PM
yah i have question if any one knows. Say your Great grandpa came from greece and ur half greek. Woul that be a chance for u to go tryout for a nationalk team like Greece?
ShockerAutc
08-19-2006, 08:06 PM
I believe it had to be your grampa. But!!, I believe every team can have 4 players who do not meet regular citizenship standards, so you could be one of those four!! This is what I have gathered from talking with the Finnish team.
redwinglax
08-19-2006, 10:42 PM
my understand is that you can only have a certain percentage without a passport but that percentage must have a grandparents spouse or be a resident i found this all while looking into the polish team
NewEnglandLaxer
08-19-2006, 11:04 PM
I want to play for the Polish team that would be sick
redwinglax
08-19-2006, 11:09 PM
I want to play for the Polish team that would be sick
yeah man i was looking at the ILF website and they have poland listed under developing nation or whatever but no email adress listed maybe ill send the head guy an email asking for one because im sure there is tons of interest here
strongisland
08-19-2006, 11:29 PM
I want to play for the Polish team that would be sick
Polish pride!!
BClax17
08-20-2006, 12:50 AM
Polish pride!!
Polska Duma!
aussielax
08-20-2006, 12:57 AM
This thread probs belongs in the international forum.
And the best was to get a national team started would be to contact the ILF as they would be able to tell you exactley what you have to do to get it started.
Bobsch
08-20-2006, 03:26 AM
If you lived in a country for 24 months (it used to be 18) or were born there or your parents or grandparents were born there, you could qualify as a non-passport holder (maximum of 4 or 15%, except for some teams in the Green Division). Of course, if you have a passport from that country, that counts as a passport holder and there isn't a limit (Ireland and Italy, for example, make it really easy for people with ancestors coming from there to get passports). Here's more: http://www.intlaxfed.org/pdf/ILF%20Eligibility%20Criteria%202005.pdf
Also, I recommend going through the European Lacrosse Federation. ILF isn't a very helpful organization and they don't even have their membership list up to date. Here are the European teams: http://www.europeanlacrosse.org/country/index.html#new
The European Championships will be in August 2008 in Finland (hope to see you there!). If you're serious about it, email Kristian Gotsch (his email is on the ELF page and he played for Denmark). But...I only reommend doing it if you see it as an opportunity to help lacrosse in Poland (or whatever country you are looking at)....I don't like what Ireland and Italy have done in playing mostly players who never helped "their country" develop lacrosse one bit.
PhishMeister
08-20-2006, 06:10 PM
This is my case, I was born in Korea and then adopted and came to the U.S. I would qualify for one of the non passport holders ?
Bobsch
08-20-2006, 11:35 PM
Yes, that would count
dtl42
08-21-2006, 11:02 PM
ok my grandparents were born in china, manchuria and shanghai, my dad was born on taiwan and moved to brazil when he was 3, then lived there till he was 14 then went to canada for 1 yr then came to the US.
other side o family
greatgrand mother born in Ireland, great grandfather born in Germany
who could i play for??????
Bobsch
08-21-2006, 11:40 PM
ok my grandparents were born in china, manchuria and shanghai, my dad was born on taiwan and moved to brazil when he was 3, then lived there till he was 14 then went to canada for 1 yr then came to the US.
other side o family
greatgrand mother born in Ireland, great grandfather born in Germany
who could i play for??????
As a non-passport holder for China, Taiwan, and Brazil, if they had teams. For Ireland and Germany, you'd have to apply for citizenship (relatively easy for Ireland).
livinglegend
08-22-2006, 12:14 AM
does this rule go for the u19 tournement to>?
also does anyone know if italy has a national team going to the u19 championships
hankooklax
08-22-2006, 07:07 AM
If you are born in Korea then you have Korean citizenship. This would require eventual military service post college graduation. If you don't go to military service however you eventually forfeit this citizenship. You should talk to a korean embassy if you get the chance
WHEELAX2
08-22-2006, 07:41 AM
ok my grandparents were born in china, manchuria and shanghai, my dad was born on taiwan and moved to brazil when he was 3, then lived there till he was 14 then went to canada for 1 yr then came to the US.
other side o family
greatgrand mother born in Ireland, great grandfather born in Germany
who could i play for??????
every single country on the face of the planet.. all at the same time.. you would have a lot of nice gear
bendover
08-22-2006, 07:57 AM
On the ILF website http://www.intlaxfed.org under General / Eligibility Criteria, they list the different ways you can qualify. As far as I know, this is the minimum according to the ILF, and individual countries can stiffen the eligibility requirements, but not lower them.
http://www.intlaxfed.org/pdf/ILF%20Eligibility%20Criteria%202005.pdf
Bobsch
08-22-2006, 09:17 AM
If you are born in Korea then you have Korean citizenship. This would require eventual military service post college graduation. If you don't go to military service however you eventually forfeit this citizenship. You should talk to a korean embassy if you get the chance
Good point - many countries have compulsary military service. We had a dual Finn-American on my last team and he went to the Finnish Army for a year before going to college (he's going to USF now).
Bobsch
08-22-2006, 09:23 AM
does this rule go for the u19 tournement to>?
also does anyone know if italy has a national team going to the u19 championships
Same rules for U-19, but you can play for one country in U-19 and then for another country without waiting the usual three years required by the ILF for changing countries. You still have to meet elgibility requirements.
I don't know about Italy sending a U-19 team....you should probably contact Robert Corna on the Italian national team website. They would probably get most of their non-passport holders from International School of Rome, if they do send a team.
somrandomguy
08-22-2006, 04:24 PM
Hmm...I'd have to make some inquiries into family background, but it looks like I'm out of luck until Ukraine or Armenia get a team(which isn't going to happen anytime soon). Though, come to think of it, I might be able to qualify for Polish, since the part of what is now Ukraine my grandparents lived in was part of Poland at the time.