[identity profile] bengraham.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] poptimists
So, footballist Marcel Desailly has been commentating on his "native" Ghana for the BBC at the African Cup of Nations, despite the fact that he represented his "native" France throughout his playing career. This kind of thing is commonplace in footballism, and increasingly it's becoming common in Eurovision.

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Date: 2008-01-28 03:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
having only read about this last week i didn't know that Desailly was adopted by french diplomats as a tiny baby (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/sport/story/0,,2243748,00.html) (about two-thirds of the way through the article), so he is native to both France and Ghana.

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