The star of English club Brentford, Vitaly Janelt, continues his relentless pursuit to play for the national team of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and yesterday we received new confirmation of that.
Janelt, who has been a citizen of BiH since March 17th, is in the process of changing his sporting citizenship in order to be able to play for the Dragons, and how much he wants that is shown by the fact that he was with Sergej Barbarez’s expedition the entire time at the beginning of the World Cup qualifiers.
Thus, Janelt, in the gear of the BiH national team, watched live the victories against Romania and Cyprus at the start of the World Cup qualifiers, and then spent a few more days in our country and hung out with the national team players.
Namely, Janelt’s connection to our country is his wife Ines, who is from Sarajevo, and clearly, both of them have a great desire for him to play for BiH.
We received confirmation of that again yesterday. Not only does Janelt wear BiH national team jerseys in our country, but he also arrived at Brentford’s gathering yesterday wearing a retro jersey of our national team.
Brentford organized a “retro jersey day” and players were given the opportunity to wear the jersey of a team or national team from past times. Janelt took the opportunity and came to training in a BiH national team jersey from the beginning of this century (worn until 2003).
It should also be mentioned that the final decision lies with FIFA, and one more step remains before he can play for the Dragons. A problem may be the fact that he played for the German national youth football team at age 23 when he did not have a BiH passport, since FIFA rules state that after the age of 21, in such cases, sporting nationality cannot be changed, Klix.ba writes.
