<p>Athletic Bilbao has maintained a Basque-only policy for recruitment for decades. That stance, however, got pushed to its limits when the club wanted to sign French (read: not Basque) starlet Aymeric Laporte. This episode of SotG explores the baffling, ambiguous dance that Laporte and the policy have done around each other over the years, and what it can tell us about what it really means to be "from" somewhere. </p>
