FC Twente defender Douglas Franco Teixeira has abandoned efforts to obtain special dispensation to represent the Netherlands at Euro 2012.

The Brazilian-born centre-back received his Dutch passport in November and has now concluded that he won't be given clearance from world football’s governing body FIFA to play for Holland at this summer's European Championships in Poland and Ukraine. 
 
Under FIFA rules, foreign players must have lived in their new country for at least five years. Douglas won't meet this requirement until August, one month after the Euro 2012 final.
 
“In the end, we concluded that applying for dispensation request would make no sense,” Douglas’s agent Ger Peerik told De Telegraaf newspaper on Friday. He explained that chances are negligible because "there are no comparable situations in FIFA chose to grant dispensation" and "only recently, Fifa has once again underlined the five-year period. There were plans to push that period back to three years, but they were unsuccessful.”
 
The decision comes as something of a disappointment for Holland coach Bert van Marwijk, who indicated on several occasions that he would liked to add a player of Douglas's calibre to his squad at Euro 2012. Douglas has now set his sights on the 2014 World Cup, which will be held in his native Brazil.