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Originally Posted by CroFlames
It happens often in soccer. A big time European club spots some youngster in the slums of South America was bags of talent, and plucks them out and brings em over at a young age. Young kid essentially grows up in the country of his club, finds himself with a local girl, and wham bam thank you ma'am becomes a citizen.
Happens even is some smaller time leagues like Croatia (Eduardo da Silva, Sammir, and Poland (Roger). I believe Messi and Ronaldo both became Spanish citizens after living there for so long.
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It's really common in hockey too, just usually with no name players we've never heard of.
A friend of mine got a Belarusian passport 2 years ago