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DR Congo Under Investigation For Submitting Fraudulent Citizenship Details To FIFA · DidiLawren

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  Hello and welcome back to the episode of Answer Laurence here.
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  How are you all doing if you're doing great?
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  For today's episode, Nigerian football fans, Nigerian Football
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  Federation, they have filed A complaint against their Congo.
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  They have reported their Congo to FIFA.
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  According to them, DR Congo filed a fraudulent or submitted
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  fraudulent documents for nine of their players to qualify them
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  for the World Cup. According to our legal minds,
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  they said they read the the DR Congo constitution and he says
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  they don't allow the world citizenship.
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  Now, according to them, nine of the players that played against
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  Nigeria that may not qualify for the World Cup have dual
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  citizenship. They said that because of this,
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  FIFA should look into should disqualify their Congo and if
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  FIFA disqualifies their Congo, we are back in the game.
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  Is this not strategic? Like don't do your work just,
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  you know, use AI, use charge GBT and when they call you, when
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  they catch you, you say what what do you mean and how can I
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  use charge GBT? This is that Nigerians and I'm
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  just going to play somebody that explained it passionately.
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  They explained passionately what they meant and how they are
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  Congo. Broke the law, Let.
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  Me play it. These are the claims Nigerian
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  are putting forward to FIFA #1DR Congo DC FIFA of clearing
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  ineligible player to participate in the World Cup playoff in
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  Africa #2DL Congo submitted fraudulent citizenship details
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  to get some of those players cleared to participate in the
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  World Cup playoff in Africa. Now you ask yourself, for you to
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  be able to compete for DL Congo, you, you, you must denounce your
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  citizenship during that process where those players were
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  approved and cleared to compete for their Congo.
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  Those players did not deny their citizenship prior to being
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  cleared to compete for their Congo.
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  That's number one. Number two, which citizenship
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  information that was used to get those players cleared for their
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  Congo to compete at the World Cup playoff?
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  Is it the deal Congo passport? If it's the deal Congo passport
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  that means prior to that that player have to denounce his
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  citizenship because in the Al Congo constitution you cannot
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  have blouse citizenship. So if and NDR Congo uses the
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  player forum and passports to submit to FIFA, that means he's
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  not qualified to compete for their Congo.
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  So they based on the argument is their Congo Football Federation
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  committed fraud to FIFA because FIFA doesn't police countries
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  constitution. Bodia Congo submitted fraudulent
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  citizenship details to FIFA to get their players cleared to
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  compete for the World Cup playoff.
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  And is the concern Nigerians are raising because you cannot
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  deceive yourself to the World Cup.
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  We are not dumb now we are not dumb.
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  It's clear as a deal Congo citizen, you cannot have dual
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  citizenship. That's the constitution.
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  So for those that are saying that we are making stuff up,
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  keep deceiving yourself. The law is the law and you
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  learn. You will not teach away to the
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  World Cup. It's not going to happen.
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  Now this is this is so funny because some people think that
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  Nigeria is a lawless country but we produce lawyers and we we
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  produce lawyers yearly. People are forgetting that we we
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  are a nation of over 300 million and there are so many people
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  unaccounted for and hundreds of thousands of those people
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  graduate yearly as lawyers. So Nigerians are flexing their
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  law, their law knowledge and they are extending it to Congo
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  there. Anyway, I'm just going to play
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  some reactions from TikTok and also reaction from Congo
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  commentators who said that Nigerians are just a crybaby
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  that we lost. Instead of us to focus on AF
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  com, we are focusing on the wrong things.
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  Watch this. So after all that, Nigeria might
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  be going to the World Cup after all.
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  Nigeria got knocked out of World Cup qualifying over a month ago.
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  The Nigerian fans have had the piss taken out of them, mainly
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  from the Ghanaians for over a month and now we're getting told
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  that they could be allowed back in.
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  And that's because the DR Congo are under investigation by FIFA
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  for apparently having nine players who switched
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  nationalities to compete for DR Congo without completing the
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  legal and administrative pros, and so couldn't actually play
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  for the DR Congo. But none of them have played.
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  And FIFA are genuinely considering booting out DR Congo
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  and replacing them with the team that they beat in the final of
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  the African playoff, that team being Nigeria.
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  Which means Nigeria will take Dr Congo's place in the
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  interconfederation playoffs, which means they'll just need to
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  beat the winner of Jamaica versus New Caledonia to go to
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  the World Cup. And if they actually do make it,
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  Nigeria's World Cup qualification will genuinely
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  have me thinking they're going to win the whole thing because
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  let's not forget they couldn't. I'm not in the groups as the 4th
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  best second place team because the rules were decided halfway
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  through. But Even so, they needed to win
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  their last game four nil, which they did in the last minute of
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  the game. So with all that clinging on,
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  when the DR Congo finally ended Nigeria's World Cup dream, I
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  thought it was finally over. But now I'm being told it might
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  not be over. These lot made jokes for
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  nothing. If he's going to the World Cup,
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  I'm picking them to win the whole thing, man, because.
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  How Nigeria is going to the World Cup because the Congolese
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  team got caught doing a hanky panky, falsifying documents for
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  one of their players. And FIFA is currently
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  investigating. And if they are found guilty,
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  they will be disqualified. And guess who's going to take
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  their place? Nigeria.
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  The funny thing is, this hanky panky we're talking about, this
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  is something Nigeria is usually very guilty of.
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  We all know of our football players who are, you know, 1718
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  going on 44, Congo. You should have done better,
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  man. You should have done better.
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  You guys should know better than this, OK?
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  At such a crucial time, you should have done your due
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  diligence to make sure everybody is good to go.
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  But you did it. And if you guys are found to be
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  guilty of falsifying documents for your players, this guy
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  they're talking about, apparently he's older than
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  they're saying he is, or I don't know, Whatever it is.
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  Well, we don't care. We don't care.
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  We hope they get disqualified so that we can take their place and
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  then go ahead. To win.
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  The World Cup, so Nigerian fans, there is definitely still hope
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  for all of us, most definitely. What?
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  Nigeria has reported Congo to FIFA and FIFA is investigating
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  you guys, Can you please talk about this?
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  What? Listen, Nigerians, I have to
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  give it to you guys. I have to give it to you guys.
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  You guys are good. You guys are very, very good.
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  I've received a lot of messages about this and I didn't want to
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  talk about it because quite frankly, if I'm really honest,
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  it's a waste of my time. But you know what?
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  I've got a few minutes. Do you have a few minutes?
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  Cool. Sit down, grab a drink, grab a
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  snack. Let's talk.
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  Now listen, there's a lot of reports out there saying it's
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  nine players, some saying it's six players, some saying it's 4,
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  which pretty much proves that they don't know what they're
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  talking about. And that is false, It's fake.
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  But for the sake of this video, let's just take this one here,
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  which says that DR Congo faces trouble for allegedly fielding 9
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  ineligible players. Not one.
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  Not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7, not 8-9 players.
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  Let's go through the list, shall we?
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  The first false allegation is that 9 DR Congo players switched
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  allegiances from a European nation to DR Congo.
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  Is false because as you can see, and this by the way, is public
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  knowledge, you can go on fifa.com, it's right there.
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  The information is available for anybody.
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  As you can see, four players switched their allegiances to DR
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  Congo this year, 2025. Just to be clear.
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  Mario Strokens, who plays for Anderlecht.
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  Macho Ippolo who plays for Standard Mika Lounge, Balikrisha
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  who plays for Celtic, Glasgow and of course Wambisaka
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  household name in the Premier League, West Ham.
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  Now on that same document, if you scoot over to the right a
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  tiny little bit, you will see the former member association.
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  So the former associations these players have been a part of
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  Royal Belgian for the three Belgians, the ex Belgians and
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  the FA for the former English boy.
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  Now let's have a look at the dates. 13th of November for
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  Mario Stroikens, 12th of November for Machu Apollo, 11th
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  of November for Ballyquisha and 22nd of August 2025 for
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  Wambesaca. When did Congo play against
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  Nigeria? Hold on a minute.
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  Oh, interesting. 16th of November.
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  So all of these players have switched allegiances before the
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  Nigerian game? Seems pretty legit to me.
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  By the way, what the NFF has allegedly put through to FIFA is
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  a petition. It's not an official legal
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  complaint because you'd have to go to lawyers for that.
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  You'd have to go to court for that.
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  There's not been a request to hear FIFA side.
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  There's not been a request to hear DRC side.
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  I mean, why would you? It's a petition.
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  But anyway, just putting it out there.
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  It's a petition. So the second claim that was
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  made in that petition is the fact that Congo prohibits dual
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  citizenship. Let's dive into that, shall we?
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  Because yes, the Congolese law does in fact prohibit dual
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  citizenship. It's in the law.
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  Should have done your research though people.
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  Because this is a sporting nationality matter.
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  This is not a legal nationality matter.
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  Yes, there's a difference between a legal nationality and
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  a sporting nationality. As a result, players regularly
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  hold EU passports. They can represent DRC without
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  renouncing their other nationality.
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  The Congolese FA fickle fur works with FIFA rules, not
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  nationality law enforcement. By the way, this is ChatGPT
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  again, public knowledge. You can look it up and it will
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  tell you the same whether it's Google or ChatGPT.
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  Anyway, so FIFA does not care if a player has dual citizenship
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  unless the player has already played a competitive senior
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  match for another country. So to recap everything and I'm
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  going to make my face disappear so I can read this at the bottom
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  because I can't see it. A player can be legally
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  problematic under DRC law but fully eligible under FIFA
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  regulations. This legal contradiction is
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  simply ignored in sport, right? My Nigerian friends, I love you
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  guys. No, honestly, I I love you guys
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  got a lot of friends from Nigeria, love them all, but stop
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  spreading false information man. It's you're only going to hurt
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  yourself. You know, Afcon's around the
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  corner. It's literally starting this
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  Sunday. You've got a great team, you've
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  got great players. Focus on that man, because it's
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  a bit, it's a bit too much. Do you know what I mean?
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  First the voodoo and now this. It's not a good look, man, it's
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  not a good look. But anyway, just wanted to put
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  it out there. God bless you all and let AFCON
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  begin. Let me tell you guys something
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  crazy about Nigeria. Nigeria is a very lawless
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  country, but Nigerians and Nigeria, they know the law.
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  Those. They know the law.
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  So right now the the FIFA World Cup happened in the United
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  States, Nigeria during the qualifiers, Nigeria played South
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  Africa and I think South Africa figured an ineligible player.
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  Nigeria in your father lawsuits won and three points were
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  deducted from South Africa and Nigeria went off to play like
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  some sort of playoff game against DR Congo.
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  Nigeria lost, but then Nigeria looked into the law again and
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  realised that in DR Congo you can't have dual citizenship and
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  six of the players that played on that team, they have dual
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  citizenship. Nigeria right now has filed A
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  lawsuit. The FIFA has a high chance that
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  Nigeria is going to win and Nigeria is going to be back in
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  the race to the World Cup. Like it's, it's so crazy how
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  much we spend our ability to be lawless and just, you know, to,
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  to, to be lawless, you have to be able to cut corners and how
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  they are, you know, manipulating the loopholes and looking into
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  every single person seem they lost and trying to do the
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  analysis on okay, how can we cut corners?
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  How can we figure this out? So essentially, Nigeria is back
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  in the race to the World Cups. Nigeria probably played Jamaica
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  or some other country. But the point is, all through
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  this World Cup qualifiers, Nigeria has been using the law
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  to get ahead. It's crazy.
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  Now, what do you think? Do you think that Nigerians are
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  just crying over spilled milk? What do you actually believe?
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  That we deserve a place? Yes, we lost.
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  Yes, we didn't play well. But according to one of those
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  commentators, Nigeria is the giant of Africa.
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  There's no World Cup, there's no African representation if
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  Nigeria is not there. I mean, what is Congo going to
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  go and do in the world alike? Seriously.
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  And Congo should have just sacrificed.
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  They should, they should give us the giants of Africa.
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  What do you think? Do you think that we should just
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  rest? We should rest and allow people
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  who actually worked hard to earn their place in the World Cup to
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  go for it? Or do you think that we we need
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  to flex our law knowledge and get the place?
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  Let me know what you think. Thank you very much for watching
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  today's episode. Please like, like, like and
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  share. Thank you very much for
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  watching. Bye bye.