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On the evening of August 9th, Beijing time, Embiid talked about his national team career in an interview:The next Olympics will be held in Los Angeles, and then I may not represent the US team, but the Cameroon team.Many fans in the comment section couldn't understand why he had to threaten to quit the US men's basketball team before the finals?

Embiid has three nationalities: Cameroon, France and the United States. Let's sort them out in chronological order: Embiid was born in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, on March 16, 1994. In the summer of 2011, he participated in Bamford's training camp.In September 2011, with the help of Bamford, Embiid left Cameroon and went to the United States to study in his senior year of high school.

In February 2017, Embiid was selected for Cameroon's 30-man qualifying squad for the Africa Cup of Nations, but he did not play.On July 5, 2022, Embiid officially became a French citizen. On September 30, 2022, Embiid became a U.S. citizen.In April 2023, the head coach of the French men's basketball team said that Embiid planned to play for France in the Paris Olympics.