Changing Nations, Chasing Dreams. While other basketball players and vlogger from other nations are switching to Filipino Citizenship, our local athletes are also changing Citizenship.
Top Filipino fencer Maxine Esteban will now be representing Ivory Coast on her quest toward the 2024 Paris Olympics dream, according to on sports.
The former UAAP Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player is the most recent Filipino athlete to switch nationalities, following the footsteps of US Open golf champion Yuka Saso last year and chess grandmaster Wesley So in 2014. Filipino volleyball player and middle blocker Jaja Santiago also applied for Japanese Citizenship for her dream to play in the Olympics.
📷 International Fencing Federation
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