Africa-Press – Namibia. Argentina’s Fifa World Cup winner Lionel Messi’s ancestry has been traced back to Otjiwarongo, and if he chooses, he will be eligible to play for Namibia.
Fifa’s regulations on international eligibility confirm that there are four ways that a player can ‘acquire’ a new nationality: They were born in the country.
Their biological parents were born in the country.
Their biological grandparents were born in the country. Senior sources inside Messi’s management team confirmed that he is in fact eligible to play for Namibia. According to his fans, “Messi completed football’ after leading Argentina to its third World Cup trophy in its history in Qatar last year.
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