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Curacao Football Federation (FFK) president Gilbert Martina told BBC Sport. Only one of their World Cup squad, Tahith Chong, was born on the island - with the other 25 players
island owes its World Cup squad entirely to its Dutch-based diaspora, the president of Curacao’s football federation, Gilbert Martina, admitted. “All the players on the national team play in foreign leagues,” he told
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island, most of their players were born abroad and it will be hard for fans to be at the World Cup as US travel bans imposed by President Donald Trump's administration - together with cost