15 Things You Don’t Know About Giannis Antetokounmpo

7. Long Road To Citizenship

Everyone knows Giannis as the Greek Freak, but his heritage is Nigerian as we already mentioned. Nevertheless, Giannis was never a citizen of Nigeria because he was born in Greece.

However, he wasn’t automatically a Greek citizen either. He remained an “immigrant” throughout his entire childhood despite being born and raised in Greece.

Giannis didn’t even have any citizenship papers until he was 18 years old.