stevoc
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Let me get this right Qatar's national team as an academy?2018 world cup winners, are 90% immigrants (either born outside France or from parents recently immigrated to France). Qatar offering them nationality is not strange because it is a small nation and hard to have the numbers to maintain a high standard league and national football team.
They have immigrant players playing for them, but many coming from the aspire academy (were raised in Qatar) and they consider themselves as national, (just as Umtiti and his teammates consider their selves nationals).
What do they do scout talented young kids in other countries, offer their families money and citizenship to live in Qatar so they'll qualify for their national team when they're older?