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‘I root for underdogs’: football fans who don’t support their home country

‘I root for underdogs’: football fans who don’t support their home country
⚽ Football News · The Guardian · Jul 15, 2026

Not everyone supports the country where they were born or grew up. Sometimes fans are won over by a player, place, population or style of play Footballers need to be born in a country or have a family tie to that place to represent them at the World Cup, but those rules do not apply to supporters. Sometimes fans are wo

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