48MoH: The Frenchness Of Tony Parker

[Freeze]

Actually we are agreeing. I was only pointing out that your whole quote above (about the naturalization process) didn't apply in 97 because it was under Loi Pasqua at the time which was different. Since Parker got the French nationality before 18 it's pretty clear he got special treatment (and as I pointed out in the article I have a feeling it's linked to his invitation to join the INSEP).

Yeah, your article was a nice read, props

Do you know how old Tony was when he was selected to play for a French NT for the first time (I know he played the sub-16 Eurobasket in 1997), I guess he could have applied for French citizenship to play for France ?

[Freeze]

Too late to ask the teachers !!
Anyway, i've always heard that the ''droit du sol'' could be a non-automatical right.

It was right in France between the Pasqua's law and the Guigou's law.
I guess it may be right in some other countries.

You can gained it by living for a certain amount of time in a country and it still be called ''droit du sol".

Once again, not in France. Off course a foreigner living, let's say, in Paris for years would consider himself as a Parisian, and could be called as one. In some way, it is a "droit du sol". But in France it does not apply to citizenship. Read the newspapers, ask your friends, they are thousands of foreign people living in France who apply every year for citizenship and don't get it.

I should go back to my courses to check that out!

Quite boring to do

Edit : Damn, I got a flag now, nobody will call me Albanian now !!!!

[Macca76]

Yup, that's me. Thanks for the kind words, it was a bit hard to come up with new facts about Tony Parker's past but I hope I at least managed to get some interesting tidbits in there. The rest was mostly about a French perspective and describing what it means in France if TP is playing for the NT or not.

Re: the "droit du sol" article, I think the important quote in Freeze's post is "Cette procédure d'obtention de plein droit de la nationalité est en vigueur depuis 1885, avec la seule parenthèse de 1993 (loi Pasqua)-1998 (loi Guigou [12])." which is exactly what happened for Parker since he applied for French citizenship in 1997, when the rules where slightly different. I think he managed to get the French citizenship before turning 18, contrary to what is stated in the current law. Anyhow my point in the article was to show that nationality didn't "fall on him" the way it happens for most of us, TP had the choice and chose France and I see some significance in that.

Congrats for the article dude, very good piece of work

[will_spurs]

Edit : Damn, I got a flag now, nobody will call me Albanian now !!!!

I guess they will manage to catch all of us one day but I'm still resisting like Asterix and Obelix...

Congrats for the article dude, very good piece of work

Thanks, I don't do that every day obviously so it's nice to hear that some people enjoyed it.