C’est un peu fou que la fondation de la WBC italienne, qui rend un si grand nombre de joueurs éligibles pour les représenter, coïncide avec la volonté de l’Italie de supprimer cette loi de sa constitution.
Heureusement pour l’Italie, le WBC a une règle de participation antérieure qui stipule que tout joueur ayant représenté un pays lors d’une édition précédente du WBC peut le représenter à nouveau quoi qu’il arrive.
Je dirais cependant que dans 10 à 15 ans, une fois que ces joueurs seront plus âgés et ne joueront probablement plus, cette nouvelle loi affectera le baseball italien de manière brutale. Non seulement elle limite la citoyenneté par filiation à un parent ou à un grand-parent, mais la loi stipule également que le parent ou le grand-parent doit avoir détenu uniquement la nationalité italienne au moment de la naissance de son descendant. Cette clause élimine probablement de nombreux Italo-Américains dont la famille a immigré et avait probablement la double nationalité.
Espérons que cette course renforcera les racines du baseball italien dans le pays afin que toute cette question de citoyenneté n’ait pas à être évoquée !
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Par Brick-Foreign
9 Comments
If Vinnie and all these guys were blocking actual Italians from playing, it would be an issue. It’s not.
Italian baseball federation needs to target the worst soccer players and make this number 2
Not every international tournament has to be made about politics
I actually think it’s fine for countries to make it so you have to live there to become a citizen. It’s weird that that was ever not the case.
People don’t realize the previous arrangement was also kind of fucked up for the EU because people were getting Italian citizenship just to make it easier to get to some other EU/Schengen country they actually wanted to live in. So the Italian beaurocracy was getting clogged up and wasting money addressing these nationalization requests for people that will never contribute to the Italian economy, and there’s this flood of job competition in the EU from people who have literally never even been there.
tl;dr jus sanguinis would be fine if the EU wasn’t a thing, but it is, so it’s not.
It’s a legitimate point, I think. I have Italian citizenship that I claimed through my grandmother who was born there in the 1920s.
I think that when Italy becomes aware of the abnormal difficulties it will ensure that this law does not apply to athletes.
And I think it will hurt them more in soccer. They’ve already missed two world cups in a row
I just don’t really understand the point of fielding a good team that doesn’t really represent your country. Yeah this law would clearly hurt Italian baseball but Italian baseball is already hurting if they need it in the first place. Looked up Aaron Nola his last start just out of curiosity and the last people in his family to live in Italy were his great grandparents it said, at that point I don’t understand why he is allowed to represent Italy and I’m sure a lot of guys on the team are in similar positions. To me I think you or your parent need to have citizenship of a country to represent them across all sports.
Many of these people were getting Italian citizenship and the using Schengen rules to live in a completely different part of Europe, like Italian-Argentines moving to Spain. It’s pretty much a mockery of the concept of being a citizen in a republic if you have not intention of even living in that country or participating in the society.