25 Famous France Footballers Who Didn't Play For Their Native Countries

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Do you know that there are many footballers who are not original citizens of the country they live in presently? I'm talking about footballers who's parents nationalized to a particular country before giving birth to them, thereby giving them automatic citizenship. Now the said footballers have not played for their original country.

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Photo: kylian Mbappe and Paul Pogba (France footballers)

Zinedine Zidane for instance, many people know him to be a citizen of France. That is indeed very true, but do you know that Zidane's father is an Algerian? This simply implies that Zidane's original citizenry is Algerian. I'm guessing you're surprised right? Well, it may also come as a surprise to you that, Zinedine Zidane has never played a single game for Algeria throughout his career, but France.

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Another example is Paul Pogba of Manchester United, who is also a citizen of France currently. But his father is from Guinea, which now makes his original citizenry to be Guinean. But Paul Pogba also has never played for Guinea since he started playing professional football.

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