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World 9s in Europe this year?

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Wednesday, April 02 2008 @ 11:41 am ACDT

For the sake of some background:

In FIFA and UEFA-sanctioned competitions, Catalan (and Basque) players play
with the Spanish national team. The Catalan Soccer Federation do however
also maintain a national team, who play a fair few matches against national
teams, including Brazil just before the last World Cup and a game against
Argentina coming up next month.

They also play semi-regularly against the national team of the Basque
Country, Spain's other autonomous region - politically even more
independent than Catalonia is.

However, they have been turned down when requesting to join UEFA. For
the record, they cited Wales and Scotland as examples of why they should be
allowed, as politically they have more autonomy than Welsh or Scots.

The Faeroe Islands and Greenland I think also compete in UEFA, although
they are a dependency of Denmark.

In the Olympics, the entire UK competes as one team. In soccer and
numerous other team sports, they're separate.

You can pick precedents either way.

Personally, I'd love to see a Spain vs Catalonia rivalry match at the IC! It'd
get people talking... maybe even a hook for the mainstream media.

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