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Is naturalization all a trick? Blogger: Côte d Ivoire naturalized to the French Lafon by "nationality transcendental inheritance"

7:42pm, 11 September 2025Football

According to naturalization expert jallo tang Deng, Ivorian naturalized the Frenchman Lafon by "nationality is inherited from generation to generation", becoming another successful naturalization case of players of four generations of descendants.

FIFA officially announced that the French national youth goalkeeper Lafon's membership has been transferred to Côte d'Ivoire and will represent Côte d'Ivoire in the future.

Teacher Deng said that there are many questions about naturalization in this example. Lavon's blood relatives within three generations were not Côte d'Ivoire, only Burkina Faso (matrix) and French (patriarchal). According to the FIFA naturalized player rules, only those with three generations or less of the target country can naturalize.

According to the Ivorian media, Lavon's grandfather is a relative of the former first lady of Côte d'Ivoire, which also means that Lavon's Ivorian blood ties are at least four generations or more.

However, since his grandfather was born in 1945 and Côte d'Ivoire was independent in 1960, his grandfather was regarded as a "natural Ivorian" and this identity was "transcendent" to Lafon (his mother had only a single Burkina Faso nationality), so he "complied" with the rules of three generations.

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