Players' naturalisation in women's handball

[swarthofole]

Popović is not proper name for this list. She played for Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro and after referendum she chose to play for Montenegro. She has never played for Serbia as independent country.

That depends on what criteria you use. She is born in Nis (current teritory of Serbia) so I think the citizenship should be serbian. Now of course it was her choice to play for Mne, but that not changes the place of birth.

[kibby]

Also, maybe Amanda Kurtovic should be on this list. Her father is Croatian and her mother is Swedish, and she plays for Norway.

Born in Sweden and spent most of her years in Norway, did you expect her to play forCroatia? She even sings the national anthem

Yes. Marta Tomac also spent most of her life in Norway, but chose to play for Croatia, both national junior team and a few national team matches as well. She became Norwegian just last year (on paper), even though she was raised in Trondheim, Norway.

Kurtovic, however (who lived in Sweden for six years) was actually going to represent Sweden, but the Swedish national team didn't want her: http://www.vg.no/sport/ol-2012/sverige-ville-ikke-ha-kurtovic/a/10067188/

From the article:

Norge tok imot Amanda med åpne armer. Hun byttet til norsk statsborgerskap og i vinter ble hun verdensmester for Norge - i sitt aller første seniormesterskap.

In English: Norway accepted Amanda with open arms. She changed her citizenship to Norwegian, and this winter she won the World Championship with Norway, in her very first senior championship.

And regarding to sing along to the national anthem: So does Thorir Hergeirsson (Iceland) and Mia Hermasson Högdahl (Sweden)

[Bo$ko]

Popović is not proper name for this list. She played for Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro and after referendum she chose to play for Montenegro. She has never played for Serbia as independent country.

That depends on what criteria you use. She is born in Nis (current teritory of Serbia) so I think the citizenship should be serbian. Now of course it was her choice to play for Mne, but that not changes the place of birth.

Well, according to the topic's name, we should mention only players that played for one and switched for other NT.
Her citizenship wasn't Serbian, but Yugoslav... After referendum she got Montenegrin citizenship, not Serbian. Clear!
But since you all started to name players that were born in one country and played for other one as naturalized players, this topic lost sense.

[gyms]

I am agreed that we have written in the list those players who got other citizenship as child, and played only for one national team. It is a naturalisation too, because they weren't born as german, spanish or french like Nadgornaja, Signate, Kurtovic etc. and they have to change the citizenship to play for an other country.

[Wbk]

Karina YOZHIKOVA added.

She's Belarus-born, but switched and played for Russia in the younger age categories. Reaching seniors, however, she decided to play for her native NT again.

[jensm]

Former German-NT star Ingrida Radzeviciute
LIT - GER

[Wbk]

Notes about dual citizenhip added to some Russian players on the list, see the initial post ^^.

[Joana]

For Slovenia:

Agnieskza Matuszewska (Poland)
Inna Dolgun (USSR/Kyrgyzstan)

For Netherlands:

Ana Razdorov (Yugoslavia/Serbia)
Irina Pušić (Croatia)

[Bo$ko]

Jasmina Janković from BIH to NED.

[Wbk]

Jasmina Janković from BIH to NED.

Added with a note, as she changed Bosna for Netherlands being 5. More about her story: http://www.handbal.nl/userfiles/Roy/Kli ... ew.pdf.pdf

[Germanicus]

have to change the citizenship to play for an other country

Sure but I'm sure many of them did not change citizenship in order to play for a nation but did it as a child, likely together with their parents, when playing international (or even playing handball) was not considered at all.

[Wbk]

After reading the Kibby's post from the other topic I added Melanie Felber (Source) to the initial list of players with multiple citizenship competing only for their native country.

[gyms]

have to change the citizenship to play for an other country

Sure but I'm sure many of them did not change citizenship in order to play for a nation but did it as a child, likely together with their parents, when playing international (or even playing handball) was not considered at all.

It isn't important that they did it as child, and didn't know that they will be handball players. They changed their citizenship and play for an other, new country. It is a real naturalisation and isn't important when it happened.

[Scheersberg]

Jasmina Janković from BIH to NED.

Added with a note, as she changed Bosna for Netherlands being 5. More about her story: http://www.handbal.nl/userfiles/Roy/Kli ... ew.pdf.pdf

I would not "count" Jankovic, but that 's a matter of definition, indeed leaving Bosnia because of the war by then.

[Wbk]

Jasmina Janković from BIH to NED.

Added with a note, as she changed Bosna for Netherlands being 5. More about her story: http://www.handbal.nl/userfiles/Roy/Kli ... ew.pdf.pdf

I would not "count" Jankovic, but that 's a matter of definition, indeed leaving Bosnia because of the war by then.

That's why we started to add specific individual remarks (if available) to the players.

[kibby]

Kurtovic, however (who lived in Sweden for six years) was actually going to represent Sweden, but the Swedish national team didn't want her: http://www.vg.no/sport/ol-2012/sverige-ville-ikke-ha-kurtovic/a/10067188/

From the article:

Norge tok imot Amanda med åpne armer. Hun byttet til norsk statsborgerskap og i vinter ble hun verdensmester for Norge - i sitt aller første seniormesterskap.

In English: Norway accepted Amanda with open arms. She changed her citizenship to Norwegian, and this winter she won the World Championship with Norway, in her very first senior championship.

Kurtovic: I feel Swedish: http://www.aftenposten.no/100Sport/ol/Den-norske-handballyndlingen-avslorer---Jeg-foler-meg-svensk-803011_1.snd?

From the article:

- Jeg er 50 prosent svensk. Vi snakker svensk hjemme. Hele familien er svensk og Karlskrona er «hjemme» for meg, det er der mormor bor. Jeg føler meg svensk. Men jeg representerer Norge, sier Kurtovic til avisen.

In English: I am 50 % Swedish. We talk Swedish at home. My whole family is Swedish and Karlskrona (city in Sweden) is "home" to me, that's where my grand mother lives. I feel Swedish. But I represent Norway, says Kurtovic to Aftenposten.

[meteo]

Saskia Lang (dual citizenship) decided playing for germany, youth caps for Switzerland https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskia_Lang
Shenia Minevskaja - don't know when she exactly obtain german citizenship, but born in Minsk and with her parents playing for GUS and USSR and moved 1994 to Germany she was not a born german https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenia_Minevskaja https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrej_Minevski

Gordana Mitrovic (HSG Blomberg-Lippe) able to play for Germany or Serbia
http://www.derwesten.de/sport/lokalspor ... 99442.html
http://www.eurohandball.com/ec/cwc/wome ... naMitrovic

Melanie Herrmann (dual citizenship) former youth caps for Germany, since 2012 playing for Austria https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Herrmann
Celia Schneider - SUI was looking for goalkeeper, was teammate of Karin Weigel and Nicole Dinkel in Göppingen when she asked for swiss citizenship. mother swiss.
http://www.stimme.de/sport/region/sonst ... 43,2788854

Stephanie Lukau dual citizenship for Germany and Angola
http://www.handball-world.com/o.red.c/n ... 23642.html

I'm sure we will have some decent belgian talents soon to add like Kim Braun, playing for Leverkusen (Naturalisation in progress)

[Germanicus]

Wow, it's quite a long time since you haven't posted in this forum

Btw. what are the precise official first names of Minevskaja and Nadgornaja? It is correct that they are actually Evgenia and Nadezhda, respectively?

[gyms]

Nabila Tizi Sadki ALG --> FRA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabila_Tizi
http://www.eurohandball.com/ec/ehfc/wom ... Tizi+Sadki

[Wbk]

Nabila Tizi Sadki ALG --> FRA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabila_Tizi
http://www.eurohandball.com/ec/ehfc/wom ... Tizi+Sadki

Her last NT international starts were for Algeria, so it is a dual citizenship apparently.

[gyms]

Nabila Tizi Sadki ALG --> FRA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabila_Tizi
http://www.eurohandball.com/ec/ehfc/wom ... Tizi+Sadki

Her last NT international starts were for Algeria, so it is a dual citizenship apparently.

Yes, it seems she has 2 citizenships.
Won't you add her to the list?

[Wbk]

Nabila Tizi Sadki ALG --> FRA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabila_Tizi
http://www.eurohandball.com/ec/ehfc/wom ... Tizi+Sadki

Her last NT international starts were for Algeria, so it is a dual citizenship apparently.

Yes, it seems she has 2 citizenships.
Won't you add her to the list?

I did it on Tuesday already You have to look at the initial post's second list

[gyms]

Asma Elghaoui (TUN) got hungarian citizenship according to this article.
We heard about it months ago, but it seems it will be true.

http://www.sonline.hu/somogy/sport/tavo ... lez-681721

[gyms]

Asma Elghaoui (TUN) got hungarian citizenship according to this article.
We heard about it months ago, but it seems it will be true.

http://www.sonline.hu/somogy/sport/tavo ... lez-681721

Wbk! You can add her to the list too, it is official:

http://www.nemzetisport.hu/kezilabda/no ... tt-2523677

There is a pic in the article.

[handbol]

Multiple citizenship players competing only for their native country all along:
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ZALEWSKA-GARDONI, Karolina (POL & FRA)

Actually Karolina did play for the french NT, for the A' team back in 2009.
I have a picture of her with the french jersey somewhere on my old hard drives, but here his an article talking about a tournament in 2009 where she is mentionned as a french NT player. It was to get prepared for the WCh 2009. In the end she was not part of the 16 players who played the 2009 World championship. It was probably the last time she wore the french jersey...
http://imhblog.canalblog.com/archives/2009/02/22/12657085.html