American expats have more time and incentive to get to know the soccer teams of their adopted home countries.
I spend a lot of time in my adopted home town, Hong Kong, and Beijing, where my wife and I also have a home.
They turned down new jobs, transfers or recalls to stake roots in their adopted home, sometimes with potential risk to their career or finances.
A sad John Rolfe left his young son in the care of a guardian in England and returned to his adopted home.
In October, Shirwa Ahmed, 27, a Somali-American who had been radicalized by al-Shabaab in his adopted home state of Minnesota, traveled to Somalia and blew himself up and 29 others.