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As the governing body of association football, FIFA is responsible for maintaining and implementing the rules that determine whether an association football player is eligible to represent a particular country in officially recognised international competitions and friendly matches. In the 20th century, FIFA allowed a player to represent any national team, as long as the player held citizenship of that country. In 2004, in reaction to the growing trend towards naturalisation of foreign players in some countries, FIFA implemented a significant new ruling that requires a player to demonstrate a "clear connection" to any country they wish to represent. FIFA has used its authority to overturn results of competitive international matches that feature ineligible players. FIFA's eligibility rules also demand that in men's competitions, only men are eligible to play, and that in women's competitions, only women are eligible to play. ==History== Historically, it was possible for players to play for different national teams. For example, Alfredo di Stefano played for his country of birth, Argentina (1947), for Colombia (1949) and for Spain (1957–61). Di Stefano's Real Madrid team-mate Ferenc Puskás also played for Spain after amassing 85 caps for Hungary earlier in his career.〔 A third high-profile instance of a player switching international football nationalities is Jose Altafini, who played for Brazil in the 1958 FIFA World Cup and for Italy in the subsequent 1962 FIFA World Cup. Other 20th century examples of players officially representing more than one country – excluding those resulting from changes to geopolitical borders e.g. East Germany/Germany, Soviet Union/Ukraine, Yugoslavia/Croatia – are: * Law Adam – (Switzerland and Netherlands)〔 * Joe Gaetjens – (United States and Haiti)〔 * Marius Hiller – (Germany and Argentina)〔 * László Kubala – (Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Spain)〔〔 * Raimundo Orsi – (Argentina and Italy)〔〔 * Luis Monti – (Argentina and Italy)〔〔 * Michel Platini – (France, and later 21 minutes in a friendly for Kuwait on invitation by the Emir) * José Santamaría – (Uruguay and Spain)〔 * Alberto Spencer – (Ecuador and Uruguay)〔 Furthermore, some international players have played for another FIFA-recognised country in unofficial international matches, i.e. fixtures not recognised by FIFA as full internationals. This category includes Daniel Brailovsky who played for Uruguay youth teams, was featured in camps for Argentina and years later officially represented Israel; England international Gordon Hodgson, who has an amateur cap for South Africa,〔 and the aforementioned di Stefano, who also has four caps for Colombia. These caps are not officially recognised due to a dispute between FIFA and the Colombian Football Federation at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「FIFA eligibility rules」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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