It’s never too late to make your international debut and Jordan LefortplayerAngers SCO (promoted to Ligue 1 at the end of a great 2023-2024 season in Ligue 2) can still believe it, even at 30 years old! But if the level of the French team is perhaps inaccessible to him at the time these lines are written, the Angevin defender could change his sporting nationality by being naturalized with the nationality of the Mauritania which he could obtain thanks to his wife, to play high-stakes matches with the Mourabitounes! The coach of the country located at the western end of the Sahara desert, Amir Abdou, is seriously considering giving him a chance, even if he knows that the decision to allow him to play or not for his team will be up to his managers. The technician was questioned by RMC this Thursday, June 27 on this subject:
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“Naturalization is done through his children and through his wife. But there is a connection that is made. He is not someone who comes and is just an added value that we take like that. There is already a story, he has had children and he lives with a Mauritanian woman. It is as if he had lived in Mauritania and had married a Mauritanian woman before applying for nationality. It’s exactly the same. He’s not a person or a stranger that we can take… He has ties. For me he has ties, for me he has 50% with his children and his wife. For me, he is half Mauritanian. »
For his part, the player strongly hopes to be able to join the ranks of Mauritania, without saying that this will happen every time, as he told our colleagues from Le Parisien this week: “That might sound crazy to some, but not to me. It’s really something to think about, so I say why not? »
Sources : rmcsport.bfmtv.com / leparisien.fr
Photo Eddy Lemaistre/Icon Sport
