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Re: World Baseball Classic.
« Reply #100: March 16, 2023, 01:42:00 PM »
When I lived over there, I was tangentially involved in their developmental program (basically, they needed reasonably good players to come in and practice against their youngsters, and I somehow qualified for that).  It's a small but pretty dedicated group.  A couple of the guys I went against there were fringe types for the senior team for a bit and now work for the organization.  They're always hoping to graduate to actually having more guys with only UK passports involved in the senior setup, but it's going to take a while. 
Euros don't blink an eye at guys finding a drop of blood, marrying, or resettling to change their nationality for their national soccer teams or things like cycling. One of the best French cyclists since last year is a guy named Andrei Vlasov.