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A few weeks ago during their World Cup match against Brazil, Morocco's football squad made history.
For 25 minutes, not one of their players on the pitch had been born in Morocco.
In fact, 19 of the 26 players on their World Cup squad are foreign-born.
And Morocco isn't alone.
This year, nearly a quarter of the players at the World Cup are competing representing countries they weren't born in.
It's by far the highest proportion ever.
So today we're looking at why this is and how players choose which country to play for.
I'm Hannah and this is What in the World from the BBC World Service.
So first, before we get into this, I want to lay out some basic facts.
So you probably know each squad at the World Cup has 26 players
and several teams have got a squad this year where the majority of players were born abroad.