Appreciation is not a one-way street. On the one hand, the players want to be valued, on the other hand, footballers who were born and raised in Germany, who were trained and promoted with funds and structures from the DFB (and thus always took a place from other players) change every year. , just the association as if it were a change of club (if your family situation somehow allows it). Where is the gratitude for nurturing and building the player?
If a boy born in Germany wants to play for his parents’ country, that’s ok. But playing for the DFB up to the U21 level, getting the best funding and then turning your back on the DFB is somehow cheeky and anything but grateful.
If Samardzic’s heart beats more for Serbia, that would be perfectly fine, but then he should have played for Serbia as well when he was younger.
I find it extremely strange how naturally several users see a calculated association election here. In my opinion, there shouldn’t be an association “election” at all, or only in absolute exceptional cases.
Others cannot simply choose their nation either.
In my opinion, such abstruse cases as with Mitchell Weiser, who suddenly wants to play for Algeria because of a grandfather, shouldn’t exist at all.
In my opinion you should only play for the nation you have lived in for a longer period of time. Something like Musiala, who lived in Germany for a few years and in England for a few years, I think it’s totally okay that he can choose between the two.
But cases like Weiser don’t work at all in my opinion. How far can you go back in your family tree before it becomes too absurd for FIFA?
Samardzic may be an incident as both parents are probably Serbs. In my opinion, he should still only play for Germany because he was born here and has always lived here, but I might still be able to show some understanding here if he was brought up so close to his homeland that he also went through various Serbian youth national teams , that would be perfectly legitimate for me too.
But again, take the DFB school with you up to the U21s and then change the association to a country where you never lived beyond a holiday, where you never played, I personally think that’s just wrong!
I find it shocking how relaxed some see it.
I think it’s understandable to a certain extent, but I don’t think it’s ethical.
Other players are condemned if they go to a Dulli league (China, MLs or Saudi Arabia) because of the money, but of all things with the national teams that are still somewhat “sacred” somewhere, where it’s supposed to be about the more honest football at its core, and not the thoroughly capitalized clash of mercenary troops (club football is nothing else, the number of players who play professionally for their home town is probably well under 1%), especially in national team football, one of the last bastions of the honest competition, such opportunistic, calculated changes of association should be frowned upon and criticized much more than when a player moves to China.
The fact that Samardzic says it so openly and shows that the association election was a real courtship for his person, which was about sporting perspectives, I think is completely wrong and misses the point of the national football team. And I find it perverse that it is accepted that it is so and that it is even interpreted as his right.
But fits in with the ultra-liberal movements of recent years. In a few years, everyone will not only be able to choose their gender, but also their nationality.
Then we will soon have a second club football at national team level, where the richest nations buy the best talent. 
