The World Football Association (FIFA) gave the final green light and approved the change of his sports citizenship. With this move, all administrative obstacles have been removed, and there is no longer anything that would prevent Ignatkov from wearing the yellow-blue jersey.
Sergey Ignatkov’s story is specific and has an interesting background. He was born in 2007 in Trebinje, where his mother is from, while his father is Ukrainian.
It is interesting that his parents met in Mostar, the city where Ignatkov took his first football steps playing for the youth teams of Zrinjski.
Interestingly, the young player had as many as four options in front of him.
Apart from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Ukraine, due to the origin of his grandmothers, he had the right to claim citizenship, and therefore to represent Russia or North Macedonia. However, the decision ultimately fell to Ukraine.
(Vijesti.ba)
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