Jonathan De Guzman is a bastard and Holland is full of bastards too

[Guest Ringmaster]

After much speculation on which country de Guzman would choose to represent internationally, motivated by de Guzman's non-committal public comments, he made himself available for selection by the Dutch national team immediately after receiving his Dutch citizenship in February, 2008. His decision was met with disappointment in Canada, which witnessed a similar situation when top soccer prospect Owen Hargreaves chose to play for the English national team. Controversially, de Guzman appeared in a nationally televised sports show on Canada a week before this announcement and claimed that he had not made up his mind on his international status, and was focusing on his club career in the Netherlands. Fans have adopted the nickname Judas de Guzman as his new Canadian name

[Chris the Human]

As an Aussie fan, we see shit like this all of the time. Usually it's those sneaky Croats, but now the Greeks are trying to steal young Dean Bouzanis, the Croats are after Dario Vidosic and Matthew Spiranovic, and there's some shifty business going on with a young Ukrainian kid.

[The Slickman]

Lol, Awesome.

I now love De Guzman and Owen Hargreaves too. Canada sucks.

[IAceI]

Haha, as if Australia can lay stake to anybody considering 90% of the people are originally from those Eastern-European backgrounds. It's more the other way round, Australia would be stealing players from other nations more than anything ¬_¬

[Iain76er]

Edit: Ignore

Edited February 8, 2008 by Iain76er

[ONO]

As an Aussie fan, we see shit like this all of the time. Usually it's those sneaky Croats, but now the Greeks are trying to steal young Dean Bouzanis, the Croats are after Dario Vidosic and Matthew Spiranovic, and there's some shifty business going on with a young Ukrainian kid.

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Yeah, but the kids themselves were probably (I'm not bothering to look it up) born in Australia.

[brenchill]

Dario Vidosic was born in Croatia. The other two were born in Australia. Unlike MPH I have too much time on my hands .

[Zaz]

Christian Vieri also grew up in Australia. Instead, we just got his shitty brother

[The Quasi Juice]

Haha I didn't know it was such a big deal in Canada. De Guzman is better than his brother and he would be a great player for Canada but let's be honest here he'll have to carry Canada on his shoulders big time if he ever wanted to play at a World Cup but with Holland he plays at every big tournament with worldclass players. I expected him to choose for Holland 'cause he has been living here for 8 years (?), he speaks fluently Dutch and he has a lot of friends here so it's a quite logical choice.

[Twist]

Canada > Holland > Australia.

Sorry, but it's true. I'd have picked Canada.

[Guest Kou]

Haha I didn't know it was such a big deal in Canada. De Guzman is better than his brother and he would be a great player for Canada but let's be honest here he'll have to carry Canada on his shoulders big time if he ever wanted to play at a World Cup but with Holland he plays at every big tournament with worldclass players. I expected him to choose for Holland 'cause he has been living here for 8 years (?), he speaks fluently Dutch and he has a lot of friends here so it's a quite logical choice.

[Blue Rosler]

They eat a lot of poutine.

[The Quasi Juice]

Haha I didn't know it was such a big deal in Canada. De Guzman is better than his brother and he would be a great player for Canada but let's be honest here he'll have to carry Canada on his shoulders big time if he ever wanted to play at a World Cup but with Holland he plays at every big tournament with worldclass players. I expected him to choose for Holland 'cause he has been living here for 8 years (?), he speaks fluently Dutch and he has a lot of friends here so it's a quite logical choice.

Do you know anything about the Canadian national team?

[Renegade]

Why in the FUCK would anyone want to play for Canada over Holland?

It's a good decision by him.

[Chris the Human]

Haha, as if Australia can lay stake to anybody considering 90% of the people are originally from those Eastern-European backgrounds. It's more the other way round, Australia would be stealing players from other nations more than anything

Edited February 13, 2008 by Merry ChrisWalkerBushmas

[IAceI]

No. If I'm born in Australia to a Croatian and Australian parent. I'm just as much Croatian as I am Australia and should have just as much right to choose Croatia over Australia.

But that's just me.

[Guest Kou]

Haha I didn't know it was such a big deal in Canada. De Guzman is better than his brother and he would be a great player for Canada but let's be honest here he'll have to carry Canada on his shoulders big time if he ever wanted to play at a World Cup but with Holland he plays at every big tournament with worldclass players. I expected him to choose for Holland 'cause he has been living here for 8 years (?), he speaks fluently Dutch and he has a lot of friends here so it's a quite logical choice.

Do you know anything about the Canadian national team?

Edited February 14, 2008 by Kou

[Ananas]

If Hargreaves and Jono had stayed in Canada they would never have become anything resembling what they are now/will be. The real Judases are the CSA, whose incompetence has caused a nation that plays soccer consistently more than any other sport to look at it as an afterthought. Get some competent management in place and the team we have now should be competitive for a World Cup slot. Until we can at least do that, why should a kid who's lived nearly half his life in a more competitive soccer country (and spent his formative years in that country I might add) come back here to slum it with us?

[Guest Kou]

Of course they would become something resembling what they now are, would Hargreaves be at Man Utd though? Probably not. But on the whole they still would have developed into fine players for the Canadian national team.

AND HE SHOULD SLUM IT WITH US BECAUSE HIS DADDY SHOT HIS SPERM IN THIS COUNTRY BY GAWD KING.