World Championship 2026 rock breaks records for the number of diaspora representatives.

World Football Championship 2026, which will be held in the USA, Mexico and Canada, is already historic. Almost a quarter of all participants in the tournament were born outside the borders of the countries whose colors are stolen. Out of 1248 applications from citizens, 288 football players (23.07%) were denied the right to pay for their taxes due to labor or naturalization.

For example, at the Curacao collection warehouse, 25 out of 26 people were born outside the Caribbean island. The recent transfer and change of community at this tournament cannot be compared with the world-famous story of the 29-year-old forward of the national team of Iran, Dennis Dargahi.

Dennis Eckert (who goes by the nickname Dargahi) was born in Nimechchina, has a Spanish mother and played for the German national team U-19. On the club level, the 29-year-old striker plays for Borussia (Monchengladbach), Celta, Union Saint-Gilloise and Standard.

Its Iranian roots are similar to my grandfather's on the Father's line, but the world learned about it absolutely out of the blue - Instagram fans. The footballer's aunt, Anahita Dargahi, is one of Iran's most famous television and movie shows.. The publication itself changed the athlete’s share.

Anahita once published a photo of me and my homeland, wishing us a happy New Year's Day. So many people found out about it, and so began my journey. I think if she wasn’t famous, no one would have known that I was Iranian. But there is Iranian blood in my body, and I can’t take anyone,” Dennis said..

The route to the national team is not demarcated by the simple change of sporting enormity. Due to the strict laws of Iran, citizenship is limited to direct relatives of passport holders. Dennis's father (a German with a passport) never completed Iranian documents, and his grandfather was no longer among the living. To complete its journey, the motherland had to go through a complicated process:.

Dennis's father went to Tehran to get a DNA trace. This child was matched with the DNA of his sister, actress Anahiti Dargahi. The examination officially confirmed the native connections. The bureaucratic struggle has plagued the whole river and has successfully ended in the year 2026.

Already, the forward had given up his Iranian passport, changed his nickname to Dargahi and refused to qualify for the national team until the end of the World Cup..

The appearance of Dargakha on the electoral list has caused a huge scandal. The coaching staff excluded the team's leading star, forward Sardar Azmun, from the application.. The reason was the publication of Azmun, who decided to give his hand to the members of the royal homeland of the UAE on the geopolitical conflict between Iran, the USA and the countries of the Persian tributary.

Vlada regarded this as an act of disobedience, which automatically made the place in the attack for Dennis. Darhahi, who still does not understand my farce, knows that he himself does not believe in the success of this adventure until the end:.

I didn't think what would happen. Contact with the Iranian Football Association periodically. But I still want to play at the world championship and try myself. Anahita helped me a lot with the documents, she's a person with a great heart."

The team against Iran has already started at the 2026 ChS, having drawn (2:2) against New Zealand. It turns out that Dennis Dargahi can make his historic debut for the national team this week in Los Angeles, in the important Group G match against the national team of Belgium.