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FIFA to consider changes to nationality rules

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Bassil
Oct 25, 2017
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Thirteen years ago, FIFA made changes to its nationality rules, permitting those who had yet to play for their countries in a competitive match at senior level to make a one-time change of nationality.

The new rule still stipulated that the player must have ties to the country-in the form of at least one grandparent.

Antar Yahia- who represented France at…

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