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Re: The United Colours of West Ham

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With his appearance at Anfield at the weekend, Patrice Evra became the 17th Frenchman to represent West Ham.
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Time for an update, Leon?

France: Diop
Poland: Fabianski
Ukraine: Yamolenko
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Up the Junction wrote:Time for an update, Leon?

France: Diop
Poland: Fabianski
Ukraine: Yamolenko
Does it have to be a competitive match to count? Hopefully come August we’ll be adding two Brazilians as well.
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Up the Junction wrote:Time for an update, Leon?

France: Diop
Poland: Fabianski
Ukraine: Yamolenko

At the bottom of the OP: “Possible future additions: I.Diop (France 18th), Fabianski (Poland 1st), Yarmolenko (Ukraine 2nd), Balbuena (Paraguay 2nd), Anderson (Brazil 3rd)
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Apart from Pablo Armero on loan (do they count?), West Ham have never had a colombian player before, I believe
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Several new additions to the foreign legion today.

In goal, Lukasz Fabiański becomes the first Polish national to play for the club.
Fabian Balbuena is our second representative from Paraguay.
Felipe Anderson is our third Brazilian.
Substitute Andriy Yarmolenko is our second from Ukraine.

Likely future additions: I.Diop (France 18th), Pérez (Spain 8th), Sánchez (Colombia 2nd)
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2 more additions this week.

Lucas Perez becomes our 8th Spaniard and half of those 8 Spaniards are still with the club!
Carlos Sanchez is our second Colombian. Half of those are also still with the club. :D
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Issa Diop is our 18th Frenchman. :kumb:
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In our recent EFL (Checkatrade) Trophy match, West Ham were represented in a senior, professional football match by Joseph Anang (Ghana), Bernardo Rosa (Brazil) and Xandé Silva (Portugal). They join Raphael Spiegel and Noha Sylvestre (both Switzerland) on a secondary list of foreign nationals to have represented West Ham United in professional action. I have added this list at the bottom of the OP because they have not represented our first team, but have featured in senior competition. The EFL cup format is a bit of a grey area.... :?
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poplargeezer wrote:We must be the only business in Newham that's not got a Pole!
At least we sorted this out.
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Any reason you haven't included RoI players?
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A Cypriot kid came off the bench against Exeter last night.
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Vic_Watson wrote:Any reason you haven't included RoI players?
Many reasons, the main one being that the information was much harder to come by.
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thejackhammer wrote:A Cypriot kid came off the bench against Exeter last night.
Good spot. Odysseas Spyrides
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Pedro Obiang called up by Equatorial Guinea for Nations Cup Qualifier. He reportedly needs international clearance to switch allegiance, despite having never represented Spain at full international level. One to keep an eye on.

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We have a number of potential dual-nationality African/English players that represented West Ham in the recent Checkatrade Trophy match versus Yeovil:

Sean Adarkwa - England/Ghana
Ajibola Alese - England/Nigeria
Olatunji Akinola - England/Nigeria
Emmanuel Longelo - England/DR Congo
Jeremy Ngakia - England/DR Congo

There are probably loads more, but those are the ones that played most recently.

And one that's nice and easy, a debut for 16 year-old summer signing Sebastian Nebyla (Slovakia).
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LeonRivers wrote:Pedro Obiang called up by Equatorial Guinea for Nations Cup Qualifier. He reportedly needs international clearance to switch allegiance, despite having never represented Spain at full international level. One to keep an eye on.
Made his debut for them at the weekend.
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Cheers UTJ. :thup:
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Xande Silva is the tenth Portuguese player to represent West Ham. 4 different Portuguese have debuted for the club in the last 2.5 seasons, surpassing the Australians as the second most called-upon nation (still way behind France).
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