FAS to quicken process of adding foreign-born Lions after AFF C’ship debacle

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The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) will speed up the process of getting foreign-born talent to play for the Lions, while also continuing to develop the local pipeline, it said on Friday. The call for Singapore football to revisit the Foreign Talent Scheme (FTS) has...

Fellow goal-scorer Argentina-born Sergio Aguero became a citizen in 2022 after fulfilling Fifa’s five-year residency rule to play for an adopted country at senior level.

“However, the criteria go beyond assessing the athletes’ sporting abilities, but also considers the athletes’ long-term commitment to Singapore and not only to the sport,” it added. “The reality is that we need foreign-born players. The teams in the semi-finals like Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand have done it, so what is stopping us?”

The next foreign-born player could be Tampines Rovers’ 26-year-old Japanese midfielder Kyoga Nakamura, who had expressed his desire to play for the Lions, but will fulfil Fifa’s five-year residency rule only in 2024.

 

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