{"id":599762,"date":"2025-11-28T19:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599762\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:03:19","slug":"a-blow-to-armenian-talents-from-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599762\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blow to Armenian Talents from Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"

The German Football Association (DFB) intends to initiate <\/a>changes to international regulations so it can receive compensation when young players trained in Germany choose to represent other national teams. DFB managing director Andreas Rettig stated this in an interview with the dpa news agency.<\/p>\n

According to him, the current system \u2014 where a player receives years of training in Germany and then switches to another national team for free \u2014 \u201cmakes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are examining whether it is possible to introduce a compensation mechanism for training when a player changes his national association. Coaching work should benefit both the player and the federation,\u201d Rettig emphasized.<\/p>\n

Why Germany raised this issue<\/p>\n

For decades, Germany has faced situations where players with migrant backgrounds choose the national teams of their parents\u2019 countries. At the same time, Germany itself has benefited greatly from this trend \u2014 international family backgrounds have given the country such players as Ilkay G\u00fcndogan, Mesut \u00d6zil, Sami Khedira and Gerald Asamoah.<\/p>\n

The issue is becoming increasingly relevant: 43% of children under the age of five in Germany have dual citizenship, and in some youth national teams up to 70% of players are eligible to represent two or even three football nationalities.<\/p>\n

Against this backdrop, the DFB is discussing the possibility of creating a unified compensation mechanism \u2014 but it can only be implemented with FIFA\u2019s approval. If introduced, all countries would be required to follow it.<\/p>\n

What this means for Armenia<\/p>\n

Armenian football may also feel the consequences of Germany\u2019s initiative. In recent years, the Armenian national team<\/a>\u00a0has gained several important reinforcements from players raised within the German football system.<\/p>\n

Sargis Adamyan and Alexander Karapetyan were among the first notable examples of players trained in German clubs who chose Armenia.<\/p>\n

Today, the key representative of the German school in the Armenian national team is Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach forward Grant-Leon Ranos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the future, the national team could also see the addition of Marc and Mike Gevorgyan \u2014 who currently play for German youth teams \u2014 as well as several other young Armenian players in Germany, such as Anthony Sardaryan and others.<\/p>\n

If FIFA approves the compensation idea, Armenia, along with other countries, may be required to pay certain fees for players trained in Germany but who decide to play under the Armenian flag.<\/p>\n

For now it is only a discussion \u2014 but the trend is clear<\/p>\n

The compensation issue has emerged amid a growing number of nationality switches in world football. Germany has already seen several examples: Ibrahim Maza (Algeria), Muhammed Damar (interest from Turkey), Nicolo Trezoldi (interest from Italy), and Fabio Gruber (Peru).<\/p>\n

At this stage, the DFB\u2019s proposal remains in the discussion phase, but even the fact of the discussion shows that major football federations are seeking to revise their approach to developing young players and to protect their investments.<\/p>\n

For Armenia, this means the need to closely monitor the situation \u2014 as it may influence the strategy of recruiting football talents of Armenian origin from European academies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German Football Association (DFB) intends to initiate changes to international regulations so it can receive compensation when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-599762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115628880900603761","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}