Nov 3, 2008
What makes country a country?
So what’s the main thing that makes country a country?
Is it being recognized by most other countries in the world? Membership in the United Nations? Complete and utter sovereignty and territorial integrity?
Hell no!
A country is a country only if they have a national football team.
An application for affiliation from the Kosovo football association was deemed not to comply with art. 10 of the FIFA Statutes, which stipulates that only “an independent state recognised by the international community” may be admitted. In accordance with the Statutes, Kosovo cannot play any friendly matches.
HA! Take that, Kosovo!
249 readers already did.
7 Comments, Comment or Ping
Scholar in Training
Sovereignty, usually.
Nov 3rd, 2008
Viktor
Sovereignty? Completely useless!
Nov 3rd, 2008
Owen
FIFA’s legal department must be pretty clueless if they think that reply settles the issue. But then again, lawyers always know how to keep their children in employment.
Nov 3rd, 2008
Viktor
Legal or not, it will be a while before we see a Kosovo – South Ossetia game.
I would like to see it though – it’d be a match of the century, two football giants like that…
Nov 3rd, 2008
Danilo
Maybe a-al the Taiwanese football club, they’ll come back next year as Albanian-Pristina club.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Taipei_national_football_team
Nov 4th, 2008
Daniel (Srebrenica Genocide Blog)
I disagree with you. Who cares about FIFA? I would rather be independend without UN recognition then dependent with UN recognition. You get it? Cheers.
Nov 15th, 2008
Viktor
That’s true, but if you look back at the recent history you’ll see that FIFA has infact influenced the world more profoundly than the UN.
Nov 16th, 2008
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