In the mexican squad for this year's Gold Cup, there is a naturalized player from Argentina, Rogelio Funes Mori. Mori, who plays as a striker, has become the absolute main force of the team in the 6 games of this cup, and scored 3 goals, and the fulcrum effect is still more obvious. Due to the long-term injury of the original national team's main striker Raul Jimenez, the Mexican team urgently needed a positive Indian center with a certain strength to replace Gimenez, and Morrie, who had won the Mexican league, became the favorite candidate for head coach Martino. After meeting the conditions of FIFA's new naturalization rules, the striker, who played for the Argentine youth team, officially became a member of the Mexican national team. Of course, as a strong team in North America, Mori's naturalization was once questioned and opposed by many Mexican football celebrities, who all believed that the forward position had quite a lot of excellent reserve talent and did not need to rely on an Argentine player to support.
Mori scored 122 goals in 244 games for Monterrey, with incredible efficiency
Of course, Morrie's brother, Ramiro Funes Mori, who plays centre-back, is the more famous one, and his career in European football is much stronger than his brother's. Ramiro has played for Everton in the Premier League and Villarreal in La Liga, and has made 26 appearances for the Argentine national team, but frequent injuries have hampered the Mori's growth in the five major leagues. Morrie, who now plays as a centre-back, chose to continue his career in the West Asian league.
Ramiro Funes Morrie
They are brothers, but choose to represent different national teams, which is not uncommon in world football. Granit Xhaka has always been a focal point in Swiss football as the top talent in the Academy of Swiss teams Basel, and granit, who currently plays for Arsenal in the Premier League, has a very successful club career and national team experience, winning almost all the honors of domestic football. In the European Championship that ended this summer, as the absolute midfield core of the national team, his role on the pitch was irreplaceable, and Switzerland also made history to reach the top 8 of the European Championship.
Whether at club or national level, Granit is the absolute core of the field
Compared to Granit's star-studded moon, his brother Taulant Xhaka is much darker. Although he also has a wealth of experience in The Swiss youth team at all levels, in terms of talent, ability and attention, Taurante's experience is more like the growth path of an ordinary professional player. However, for Basel, Taurante is an absolute meritorious player, and his career has been dedicated to Basel except for a short loan experience.
Taurante was Basel's "loyalist"
Tarant, who has long been unable to win the Swiss call-up, chose to represent the Albanian national team in international competitions in 2014, which is also the home of the Zaka brothers' parents. "Big Xhaka" also experienced the peak of Albanian football in those years - the team successfully reached the group stage of Euro 2016 in France, and was destined to be in the same group as Switzerland. As a result, the two Xhaka staged a real brotherly duel on such a big stage as the European Cup.
Somewhat similar to the Xhaka brothers' experiences are the Boateng brothers, who grew up in Germany. Jerome Boateng and Kevin Prince Boateng are half-brothers, they and the eldest brother George Boateng have joined the Hertha Berlin youth training, but the three brothers have completely different football paths: the eldest brother has been imprisoned for many years with street gangsters, committing many disciplinary violations, and has long ended his football career; the second brother Kevin has shown his outstanding talent very early. He became famous very early, but then his career spread all over the world leagues, nicknamed "The Prince", he has shown his violent aesthetic in almost every team, but it has always been difficult to take root in a team for many years, which can be described as a veritable prodigal son of football; the third brother Jerome has the most successful career from now on, after experiencing setbacks in his youth at Manchester City, he has achieved great growth in joining Bayern, sitting on the absolute main force of the team, following the "King of the South" to get almost all the club's honors.
Boateng's violent shots during the Milan era were impressive
Jerome Boateng has been Bayern's defensive backbone for nearly a decade
Both have played for Germany's youth teams at all levels, but the two have made different choices in the senior national team. Boateng Jr. received early attention, as the leader of that generation of defensive young talents, Jerome made his debut for the national team at the age of 21, and occupied the main position for a long time, and successfully lifted the Hercules Cup as a member of the national team in 2014. Although the big Boateng is equally talented, in the golden period after the 06 World Cup, the number of young talents in the German domestic offensive end far exceeds that of the defensive players, and kevin, who plays in the front, is indeed difficult to get attention in this group, and finally he chose to represent his father's motherland Ghana in the international competition.
Perhaps this is the arrangement of fate, and two people with different attributes are destined to face each other head-on. In the World Cup in South Africa and the World Cup in Brazil, Germany and Ghana were twice in the same group. So the story of the Boateng brothers' duel at the national team level has magically appeared twice.
2010 World Cup
2014 World Cup
At the La Masia Academy in Barcelona, Thiago Alcantara and Lafinha Alcantara are also a pair of uncompromising brothers. Their father Mazinjo is a famous Brazilian back player, who followed the national team to win the 94 World Cup, and the two brothers showed great talent in the midfield position, which is the innate football gene.
However, after entering the first team, the career path of the two is a completely different situation: the eldest brother Thiago is older, entered the Barca team earlier, gradually sat in the main position, and was once considered by the public to be Xavi's main Indian successor, but because of the "career planning" considerations, he went to the Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich.
Thiago
The younger Rafinha, because of the relationship between the main front waist, has never been able to occupy a place in the competition of Barca's frontcourt attack group. At the club, he is still playing more as a substitute, and it is difficult to get a stable starting opportunity. Compared with his eldest brother, Rafinha's heart at that time was more inclined to be able to play in Barcelona all the time, and even though he had two loan experiences during the period, he still hoped to gain a foothold in Barcelona.
Rafinha
In terms of national team careers, the choices of the two brothers are also very different. Thiago decisively accepted the Spanish national team's call-up and became a regular for the Matadors, while Rafinha chose to follow in his father's footsteps and play for Brazil, but has only made two appearances so far. If Thiago's career, although greatly affected by injuries, is relatively smooth, his younger brother Rafinha's experience is very bumpy.
Manchester United star Pogba has two older brothers, playing as a defender and a striker, which can be said to have gathered the three lines on the football field. Paul Pogba, as the most talented of the three brothers, has been the most successful in both his club career and national team experience, and has basically always been the core of the team.
Of his two older brothers, Florentin Pogba, who plays as centre-back, has a relatively smooth career and was once the main force of The Saint-Etienne club in Ligue 1. Now, after a brief overseas drift, Florentin has returned to France and has become a key player for Ligue 2 side Sochaux.
The two brothers have met head-to-head in the Europa League
Matthias Pogba, who debuted as a striker, is the unluckiest one, the most mediocre qualifications he has been in the lower leagues of various countries for many years, and the highlight of his professional resume is the 16-17 season for Sparta Rotterdam in the Dutch League, which is one of the few top league football resumes in Matthias's career.
Of course, like the previous pairs of brothers, Paul Pogba's big brothers also made choices, and it was difficult for the two to have a chance to play for France as their birthplace of Guinea as the first option for the national team. Centre-back Florentin remains an important member of the national team, while Matthias has been on the brink since June 2017. Although the Guinean national team has well-known stars like Nabi Keita, it is still not competitive enough on the African continent. If the Pogba brothers want to replicate the deeds of the Boateng and Zaka brothers, it may be difficult to achieve in a short period of time.