"If I'm honest, I would prefer my players to come from places like Fairwater or Canton in Cardiff, or areas of Swansea."
"Or Barry, Dinas Powys, Welshpool, Llangollen or Wrexham."
"Freddy made his intentions known to us that he would like to be involved," said Toshack.
"He is certainly a player who knows where the goal is and he is only 23 years of age, so will get better.
"The other countries use this FIFA rule and do it, so there you go.
"When you go back, it's been going on for ages. People think of it as a new thing, this having Welsh roots or having been on holiday to Llandudno or owned a corgi dog or whatever.
"But it's not new. That I can assure you."
"Freddy is in an area of the field where, if we're being honest, we're very, very limited," said Toshack.
"So we'll wait and see what happens there. We'll see how Eastwood goes, then there's Earnshaw who will only have played a few games after coming back from injury.
"But what we can say is that we do at least have a bit more competition in that area.
"For an international side, you have to say we're so limited up front.
"We have brought in Nardiello as well. He's come with a rush of goals for Barnsley recently, which is what you often find when a player is out of contract like he is.
"We had thought about bringing him in early in the season for our September and October matches, but he broke his collar bone.
"But these days he is in a rich vein of form and is delighted to be involved."
Toshack admitted he had been disappointed with the progress of some of his younger players.
"I've explained things to them and for me perhaps the progress we expected has not been made by certain younger players," said Toshack.
"You can't have young players come into the squad and act like they are part of the furniture.
"Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind and believe somewhere down the line they will be rewarded from it.
"I've made it clear to Cotterill we've not been happy, that he could have done more and he's not shown up in the training as much as we would have liked."
Toshack is pleased to have Danny Gabbidon back.
"We thought we would have to rule out Gabbidon, but I spoke to him and the medical staff at West Ham and they see no reason why he shouldn't be fit to join up with us," said Toshack.
"He has had surgery, but he himself is 100 per cent better and he will be back in training shortly.
"He is a possibility against the Czechs and is a very, very important player for us.
"The information we have is that West Ham would have no problem with him playing, their season will have finished by then.
"It is something over these next couple of weeks we'll have to look at, but Danny was very upbeat when I spoke to him."
Of the selection of teenagers Gunter and Eardley at the expense of Duffy, Toshack said, "These are two youngsters we watched through the under-21s.
"Mark Delaney's injury at right-back has caused us a big problem. Richard Duffy came in and did well early on, but has had a difficult season.
"I've spoken to him and told him we expected a little bit more from him. He is aware he has not been doing as well as he can."
In goal, Toshack suddenly finds himself with three goalkeepers who are not playing first-team football with their clubs, in Danny Coyne, Lewis Price and Wolves youngster Hennessey.
To compound matters Darren Ward, who has been a regular for Sunderland and has helped Roy Keane's side gain promotion to the Premiership, has said he no more wishes to be selected for Wales.
Ward, who is 33 next week, shocked the Welsh management with his decision.
Toshack said, "When it comes to goalkeepers for us it's either a famine or a feast.
"The last time we were together we had Danny Coyne and Darren Ward, each in their early 30s, and each playing Championship football.
"We also had two young keepers in Lewis Price and Wayne Hennessey, who I think set a record with nine clean sheets at Stockport.
"Suddenly, since the games against the Irish and San Marino, Danny's gone back to Burnley and for some reason he has been substitute.
"Lewis was substitute for Ipswich last weekend, Hennessey's gone back to Wolves and is not in the team, so none of the three of them are playing.
"And Darren called me a week ago saying he thought the time was right for him not to be involved in international football.
"He has had good season, his confidence will be high with Sunderland going up to the Premiership, but he doesn't want to be involved.
"You have to respect that and look elsewhere. You would have to ask him if he has officially retired."
Toshack faces a wait to see which of his squad will be available to join up with him in North Wales on May 23 ahead of the two games.
Some of his players could miss the New Zealand game, with the likes of Jason Koumas (West Brom), Gareth Bale (Southampton) and Lewin Nyatanga (Derby) facing possible play-off commitments.
"This date is a difficult one. We want to, as near as we can, use the players for the New Zealand game which we would use in the Czech match," said Toshack.
Looking ahead to the Czech crunch, Toshack said, "It is a game we have to win. If someone other than the Germans and the Czechs qualify, I think it would be somewhat of a surprise.
"But, for me, the Czech Republic are making hard work of it. When you consider the players they've got, they're having their work cut out in this group.
"From our point of view, a win would put us four points behind them with a game in hand.
"So that is the positive way we have to look at things and approach this game. Anything other than a win would make qualifying extremely difficult.
"You never say impossible because you never know, but we have to look to win this game if we are looking to qualify."