And the champion is … Argentina! In the number of players with dual citizenship #WorldCup #GlobalCitizen #SecondPassport Twenty out of twenty-three players on the Argentinian team have dual citizenship. That is more than any other team competing at the World Cup. Fourteen of them have Italian citizenship - Hugo CAMPAGNARO, Martin DEMICHELIS, Federico FERNANDEZ, Ezequiel LAVEZZI, Mariano ANDUJAR, Agustin ORION, Sergio ROMERO, Ricardo ALVAREZ, Lucas BIGLIA, Augusto FERNANDEZ, Fernando GAGO, Javier MASCHERANO, Enzo PEREZ and Maxi RODRIGUEZ. The star Lionel MESSI and 3 more are also citizens of Spain - Pablo ZABALETA, Sergio AGUERO, Rodrigo PALACIO, while Gonzalo HIGUAIN is holding a French Passport. In yesterday’s game Argentina vs. Switzerland was the real battle of nationalities. The Swiss team consist 16 players with dual citizenship from another 9 countries - Josip DRMIC and Mario GAVRANOVIC (Croatia), Gelson FERNANDES (Cape Verde), Haris SEFEROVIC (Bosnia), Diego BENAGLIO and Tranquillo BARNETTA (Italy), Johan DJOUROU (Ivory Cost), Ricardo RODRIGUEZ and Philippe SENDEROS (Spain). The group with a passport from Kosovo is the biggest one - Valon BEHRAMI, Blerim DZEMAILI, Xherdan SHAQIRI, Granit XHAKA and Admir MEHMEDI. Steve VON BERGEN is holding a Dutch passport, while Gokhan INLER has a Turkish citizenship. Belgium vs. USA statistics show that only nine are the players with dual citizenship from the Belgium team: stars of the team Vincent KOMPANY and Romelu LUKAKU (Congo), Divock ORIGI (Kenya), Adnan JANUZAJ (Kosovo), Moussa DEMBELE (Mali), Axe WITSEL (Martinique), Nacer CHADLI and Marouane FELLAINI (Morocco), and Kevin MIRALLAS (Spain). USA team statistics are much more interesting: fifteen players holding a second passport in addition to the American one. One of them even has third one - Nick RIMANDO (Mexico and Philippines), six are holding a German passport - John BROOKS, Timmy CHANDLER, Fabian JOHNSON, Kyle BECKERMAN, Julian GREEN, Jermaine JONES. Others in the list are: Alejandro BEDOYA (Colombia), Jozy ALTIDORE (Haiti), Tim HOWARD (Hungary), Aron JOHANNSSON (Iceland), Omar GONZALEZ (Mexico), Mix DISKERUD (Norway), Chris WONDOLOWSKI and Brad GUZAN (Poland). Unified by Diversity! Enjoy the game!
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:10:05 +0000
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