Simi Awujo

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

She has been great for Canada in her limited minutes in midfield so far.

https://www.canadasoccer.com/profile/?id=55718&teamId=2088

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simi_Awujo

 

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

4 hours ago, rydermike said:

On the women's senior team, there is Simi Awujo. She played for USA at youth level before switching to Canada. She was born in the USA, appears to have played all her youth inthe US as well. Her parents were born in Nigeria, but her mother has Canadian citizenship. She's on the Canada senior national team. So it must be that if your parent is a Canadian citizen (maybe it's limited to being a citizen at the time of your birth, not a citizen later?) then you're eligible. Which would line up with Vasi's post about the Danish kid he knows. 

If we follow what we know about FIFA eligibility rules as explained by @maplebanana in the case of Mataeo Bunbury...

13 hours ago, maplebanana said:

There are two parts to eligibility: #1) Eligible to get a passport and #2) Eligible according to FIFA. You must have both.

Mataeo was born in the USA to a father (Alex) who was Canadian at the time of Mataeo's birth. Hence Mataeo is a Canadian as per the CDN govt and is eligible for a passport (#1 - check!)

For #2, as @WestHamCanadianinOxford points out, one of the following must be true:

              a) He was born on the territory of the relevant association;
              b) His biological mother or biological father was born on the territory of the relevant association;
              c) His grandmother or grandfather was born on the territory of the relevant association;
              d) He has lived continuously on the territory of the relevant association for at least two years.

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              a) no
              b) mom is full blown American. Alex was born in Guyana. So no.
              c) presumably no, for either mom or dad
              d) this is why @WestHamCanadianinOxford asked this. This is the only way he's eligible as per FIFA.

So while he may be Canadian and the son of a Canadian, unless he picks up a 2 year stint in Canada it looks like he can't represent Canada as of right now. This would also be the case for Alphonso Davies or Jonathan David's kids (if born outside Canada), but not Fikayo Tomori.

 

...it would seem that Awujo is technically not eligible to play for Canada.

[rydermike]

3 hours ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

If we follow what we know about FIFA eligibility rules as explained by @maplebanana in the case of Mataeo Bunbury...

...it would seem that Awujo is technically not eligible to play for Canada.

She's a Naturally Eligible Canadian citizen per Canadian laws (mother was already a naturalized Canadian when she was born) and thus FIFA eligible per section 1 of Article 5 (Any person holding a permanent nationality that is not dependent on residence in a certain country is eligible to play for the representative teams of the association of that country.) because of Article 2 (A player holds a nationality, if, through the operation of a national law, they have: a) automatically received a nationality (e.g. from birth) without being required to undertake any further administrative requirements (e.g. abandoning a separate nationality) b) acquired a nationality by undertaking a naturalisation process.)

Canada's naturalization process is as follows: She meets criteria 5.2 to be an automatic Canadian citizen

 

 

Edited December 14, 2022 by rydermike

[rydermike]

Named Canadian Young Player of the Year

https://www.tsn.ca/soccer/ismael-kone-simi-awujo-named-canada-soccer-young-players-of-the-year-1.1896056

[BearcatSA]

Though she did just late game minutes in the Vancouver match, I liked what I saw of her in that Victoria game.  She needs to keep developing against upper echelon opposition but she has a lot of good midfield destroyer traits to really help this team.