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Over 20 nations so far signal intent for IC11

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Thursday, April 15 2010 @ 07:28 am ACST

List updated - Iceland have sent in an EoI.

Over 20 nations so far signal intent for IC11

Authored by: Troy Thompson
on Thursday, April 15 2010 @ 07:56 am ACST

I still think that there is room for combined teams - and this is on the back of the Peace Team breaking the mould in terms of only having teams representing a country. Such teams would only be able to play in lower divisions.

A Rest of Europe, Rest of Asia, Rest of the Pacific and even possibly Middle East and South American representative teams (if there were enough numbers) could allow players who are keen (for example a handful of German players) but their countries' body is not. Possibly even just a rest of the world.

Does the IC need this? Probably not. But if the aim is for the IC to be inclusive and involve as many countries as possible it should be considered.

Over 20 nations so far signal intent for IC11

Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Thursday, April 15 2010 @ 02:23 pm ACST

The Peace Team sets a bit of a precedent for combined or regional teams, but you'd need to weigh it up with the expectations of the other teams. I don't think the organisers or the rest of the nations would want it to become too common.

I've heard mention about some of the Asian clubs fielding an ASEAN team though. Don't know whether that had been seriously discussed or was just an idea that had been floated by one of them.

Over 20 nations so far signal intent for IC11

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Thursday, April 15 2010 @ 11:57 pm ACST

Not sure if my opinions have changed over the years on this, but for newer teams in a developing nations division, I'd love see for example South America, drawing on the small pool Chilean, Argentinean and possibly Brazilian players.

And it might really motivate a few of those guys to throw themselves into growing the game when they return home. Imagine if South America had even half the development going on that Europe does. And like Asia and Oceania, I imagine the Aussie dollar goes a bit further there than in Europe and North America.

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