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[heywoodu 15,141]

Danny Baggish playing against Andy Boulton now....Baggish is playing under the American flag and is born....on Guam  

[Monzanator 4,502]

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Danny Baggish playing against Andy Boulton now....Baggish is playing under the American flag and is born....on Guam  

 

No surprise. Do people born in Aruba have a Dutch citizenship?

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

Baggish is only 36-years-old! He looks a lot older. 

[heywoodu 15,141]

1 minute ago, Monzanator said:

 

No surprise. Do people born in Aruba have a Dutch citizenship?

Yeah my surprise is not "He's born on Guam but competes under US flag", it's "There's a player born on Guam at the world championships"  

 

And about Aruba: it sort of depends on the status of the parents apparently, the main thing I saw is that a child born on Aruba from married parents - at least one of which having the Dutch nationality - is automatically a Dutch citizen.

[heywoodu 15,141]

1 minute ago, OlympicIRL said:

Baggish is only 36-years-old! He looks a lot older. 

That's because he's got a, let's say, healthy Pacific posture  

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5 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Yeah my surprise is not "He's born on Guam but competes under US flag", it's "There's a player born on Guam at the world championships"  

 

And about Aruba: it sort of depends on the status of the parents apparently, the main thing I saw is that a child born on Aruba from married parents - at least one of which having the Dutch nationality - is automatically a Dutch citizen.

 

Well, USA has the law of the land so anyone born in Guam is an US citizen I suppose Aruba, Curacao and the Dutch Antilles follow the same pattern (can't be sure about Surinam these days).

[Federer91 2,795]

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

 

Bulgaria badly needs their own Van Barneveld  

 

If there was a bulgarian in the Worlds, he'd have to be throwing on the back of Grigor Dimitrov to be mentioned in the media. 

[Olympian1010 7,975]

1 hour ago, Monzanator said:

 

Well, USA has the law of the land so anyone born in Guam is an US citizen I suppose Aruba, Curacao and the Dutch Antilles follow the same pattern (can't be sure about Surinam these days).

Not always true though. Our laws concerning territories can be rather xenophobic. For instance, people born on American Samoa do not automatically receive American citizenship. We don’t even allow them to have representation in the US Government. 

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55 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Not always true though. Our laws concerning territories can be rather xenophobic. For instance, people born on American Samoa do not automatically receive American citizenship. We don’t even allow them to have representation in the US Government. 

 

Because USA annexed those islands and of course you're not gonna allow them to join the independent Samoa

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

Michael Smith in trouble against Woodhouse. Could be a shock exit.