Official: Alexander Merkel Thread

[Beppe]

He's a Kazakhian international now playing for Serie B club pisa

[xudong]

I thought he is German?

Isn't he related to Angela too?

[Sampinjon]

What this thread is about? Some joke?

[xudong]

We have been depressed for so long. Some joke that brings us laughter should be welcome addition.

[Stitch]

He's a Kazakhian international now playing for Serie B club pisa

lol. to think we all had hopes for him

[xudong]

well, he may still be better than Poli.

[sylrus]

he is still better than poli imo
just that Kazakhstan thing is weird for me lol

[xudong]

On Wikipedia, it says that "Born in Kazakhstan to parents of German ancestry, Merkel moved to Germany in 1998, aged 6."

Also,

International career[edit]

Merkel made his international debut for Germany U-15 in a 4–1 win against Switzerland and has since represented Germany at all levels of youth international football up to under-19. In a December 2010 interview, he stated that he "dreams" of going on to play for the senior team one day.[4]

In another December 2010 interview he said that he is interested in representing Russia.[21] Russian Football Union president Sergey Fursenko and Russia's coach Dick Advocaat both commented saying that he can't be called up as he does not actually possess Russian citizenship. Merkel noted that naturalization should not be a problem, considering that an American-bornJon Robert Holden played for the Russia national basketball team.[22]

In February 2011, Merkel's adviser Arthur Beck, father of German international Andreas Beck, confirmed the player's renewed wishes to be capped for Germany.[23]

In March 2015, Merkel decided to play for Kazakhstan national football team.[24] He made his debut against Iceland in a qualifying match for Euro 2016.

Is he loaned to Pisa? It says that he still belongs to Udinese (that does ring a bell, but I totally forgot about that).