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Top Players Who Are Not Playing For The Country Of Their Origin by jumxie(op): 3:13am On Jun 15, 2019
Top Players who didn’t play for the countries of their origin.
In the world of football today, there are alot of Top football players that are not playing for the country of their Origin.


Even we as football fans will be marvel when reading the list, as those players we don’t expect to see in the list will be there, some are from Africa origin, playing in the diaspora.

SportyLeagues gathered this article to englighten us more on those players.

Here are your top lists;



#FRANCE ��
*Antoine Griezmann= Germany
*Zinedine Zidane=Algeria
*Karim Benzema=Algeria
*Kylian Mbappe=Cameroon
* N’golo Kante=Mali
*Paul Pogba=Guinea
*Adil Rami=Morocco
*Samuel Umtiti=Cameroon
*Samir Nasri=Algeria
*Hatem Ben Arfa=Algeria
*Mousa Sisoko=Mali
*Laurent Koscielny=Poland
*Nabil Fekir-Algeria
*Steve Mandanda=DR Congo
*Bacary Sagna=Senegal
*Djibril Cisse=Ivory Coast
*Claude Makelele=DR Congo
*Patrice Evra=Senegal
*Viera=Senegal
*Lilian Thuram=Guadeloupe
*Ousamane Dembele=Mali
*Nicolas Anelka=Cameroon
*Thiery Henry=Guadeloupe
*David Trezequet=Argentina
*William Gallas=Guadeloupe
*Bafetimbi Gomis=Senegal

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Re: Top Players Who Are Not Playing For The Country Of Their Origin by majamajic(m):
where's Christiano Ronaldo, from Brazil playing for Portugal, the greatest player ever

if Christiano is from Argentina, Argentina for win like 3 world cups , and like 4 Copa with the squad they has in the last 15 yrs, am just saying without comparing him with anyone.
Re: Top Players Who Are Not Playing For The Country Of Their Origin by Andersonjr(m): 8:02am On Jun 15, 2019
Cristiano Ronaldo's father is from Brazil while his mom is a Portuguese
Re: Top Players Who Are Not Playing For The Country Of Their Origin by Obainoneandonly(m): 1:48pm On Jun 15, 2019
majamajic:
where's Christiano Ronaldo, from Brazil playing for Portugal, the greatest player ever

if Christiano is from Argentina, Argentina for win like 3 world cups , and like 4 Copa with the squad the has the last 15 yrs, am just saying with comparing him with anyone.
I know where you are going but what you said is d complete truth. if they should swap him and d dwarf in Argentina they will most likely have two world cups and three copa America. just stating the obvious
Re: Top Players Who Are Not Playing For The Country Of Their Origin by ImmaculateJOE(m): 2:46pm On Jun 15, 2019
majamajic:
where's Christiano Ronaldo, from Brazil playing for Portugal, the greatest player ever

if Christiano is from Argentina, Argentina for win like 3 world cups , and like 4 Copa with the squad they has in the last 15 yrs, am just saying without comparing him with anyone.
Cristiano Ronaldo is 100% completely Portuguese.
He has zero Brazilian root.

The name Ronaldo was given to him by his Father, because CR7 was born when Ronald was the USA President.
Re: Top Players Who Are Not Playing For The Country Of Their Origin by Kenedy16(m): 4:55pm On Jun 15, 2019
OP if griezmann is german then messi can be called an italian.
Re: Top Players Who Are Not Playing For The Country Of Their Origin by jumxie(op): 7:01pm On Jun 15, 2019
Kenedy16:
OP if griezmann is german then messi can be called an italian.
Greizmann father is a German, he has descendants from Germany that's why I said he is from Germany,

But Messis father is an Argentine...so I don't really get what you are saying
Re: Top Players Who Are Not Playing For The Country Of Their Origin by Kenedy16(m): 8:00pm On Jun 15, 2019
jumxie:
Greizmann father is a German, he has descendants from Germany that's why I said he is from Germany,

But Messis father is an Argentine...so I don't really get what you are saying
Messi grandfather is italian who came to argentina
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