🚨BREAKING NEWS: FIFA Documents Confirm Argentine Birth of Facundo Garcés’ Grandfather, Debunking Malaysian Claims
Documents obtained by FIFA show that Carlos Rogelio Fernández, grandfather of soccer player Facundo Garcés, was born in Argentina—not Malaysia, as claimed by the Malaysian football federation.
The Malaysian federation had said Fernández was born in May in Penang, Malaysia. But FIFA-reviewed records from the Civil Registry of Santa Fe Province confirm he was born in the Villa María Selva neighborhood of Santa Fe, Argentina.
While the birth date is correct, the birthplace is not. The official registry states:
“Mrs. Sebastiana Justa Fernández, single, Argentine, resident of Villa María Selva, declared that at her home on 22nd Street, a white male child was born, whom she recognizes as her natural son."
This confirms that Fernández’s mother—and Garcés’s great-grandmother—was Argentine, dispelling any claims of Malaysian ancestry in the family line.
- @capdenoticias
🚨BREAKING NEWS: FIFA Documents Confirm Argentine Birth of Facundo Garcés’ Grandfather, Debunking Malaysian Claims
Documents obtained by FIFA show that Carlos Rogelio Fernández, grandfather of soccer player Facundo Garcés, was born in Argentina—not Malaysia, as claimed by the Malaysian football federation.
The Malaysian federation had said Fernández was born in May in Penang, Malaysia. But FIFA-reviewed records from the Civil Registry of Santa Fe Province confirm he was born in the Villa María Selva neighborhood of Santa Fe, Argentina.
While the birth date is correct, the birthplace is not. The official registry states:
“Mrs. Sebastiana Justa Fernández, single, Argentine, resident of Villa María Selva, declared that at her home on 22nd Street, a white male child was born, whom she recognizes as her natural son."
This confirms that Fernández’s mother—and Garcés’s great-grandmother—was Argentine, dispelling any claims of Malaysian ancestry in the family line.
- @capdenoticias