Looking for your thoughts on the French lads that are seemingly being put on the back burner? Totally counter-intuitive to how you'd think things would be with a new French coach. Ba, Aouchiche, Ekwah and Pembele. Seems like Mayenda is the one who is thriving.
He's French. Family from Benin, a French language nation, his family moved to France when he was 8, it's true he was born in Spain though. Reminds me of Cliff Richard who was born in India, he is my favourite Indian singer.
Is this a whoosh? He was born in Spain and spent the first eight years of his life there and has represented Spain at under 17 level yet he’s French? My son was born in Northampton in England, spent the first six years of his life there until we emigrated. Whilst he has Australian citizenship he is still British and has a British passport. As for Harry, he was born in British India. I don’t know what the rules were back then but I suspect that anyone born during that time to British parents could likely automatically have British citizenship through that.
4 French speakers not getting regular games and we now have a French speaker as head coach. Maybe there is a little attitude readjustment going on as they will perhaps have been free to grumble if they felt like it? Mayenda seems to have got with the program, wonder if the others will. All have areas to improve with coaching, I’d hope they’ve been set clear targets and only when they show they’ve learnt will they near a start. Ekwah needs to consistently put a shift for the full 90, decision making for Ba and AA etc
You little tinker... You can't have just taken it upon yourself to decide he is French when everything on the internet says he is Spanish and his social media has pinned posts of him playing for Spain at some level, surely?
I’m saying he is Spanish as his Wiki page says. Like I said though I’m confused. Benin is a French speaking country, but that doesn’t make the citizens there French considering that the French ended their administration there in 1960 granting the country complete independence. Using your thought process that is giving anyone who speaks that language French citizenship. That therefore makes my dad French. Seriously if you can explain why you think he is French please tell me.
I never said he was not Spanish, I said he was French. Interesting that the assumption seems to imply that these are mutually exclusive.
Brought up in France from age 8, to French speaking parents, to call him French shouldn't be that controversial here. What am I missing?
I just haven't seen anything on the internet that suggests he is French, have you or did you just decide that?
Well, as I've said he has been in France since age 8 and has French speaking parents, this is why I included him in the 'French Contingent', I didn't think this would be controversial at all.
My mam was Irish but I’m not although I am entitled to citizenship. Mayenda for most purposes would be identified as Spanish although he presumably is entitled to French citizenship.
Wasn’t expecting a debate about what constitutes nationality this morning. Presumably Aouchiche is French not Algerian?
