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Message: [QUOTE="awhom111, post: 4355129, member: 8683"] Yeah, usually these are contractually arranged so that the player plays a certain number of cycles with the national team in exchange for the citizenship, helping them increase their club salaries by not counting against limits against non-Europeans. Some of the wealthier federations can afford to pay better appearance fees for all of their players so players do want to continue to play. The only time there have been major issues is with Bulgaria on the men's side when they tried to force their naturalized players to show up for training camp by threatening to revoke their citizenship. In Asia, it is generally a different case with the national paying the player directly each time they show up so Natasha Cloud got a solid chunk of change for playing for Jordan for two weeks. [/QUOTE]