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Spain easy on stars

AFP, Madrid
In contrast to other, less glamorous applicants, top footballers such as Real Madrid's Brazilian star Ronaldo have been motoring down the express lane to obtain Spanish citizenship.
The 2002 World Cup winner, who obtained his Spanish papers Thursday, was depicted as a "typical" Spaniard in the country's media on Friday, replete with bullfighting suit of lights under his trademark toothy smile.
After three years with Real -- he also played for Barcelona for a year in the late 1990s -- Ronaldo has now sworn to uphold the values of the Spanish constitution, though he can continue to play in Brazilian yellow at next year's World Cup.
The advantage to Real -- and the reason behind the quickfire process -is that the 29-year-old frees up a place for one of a maximum of three nonEU players in the club's star-studded team with his move to dual nationality.
Ronaldo, a 35 million-euro (42 million dollars) buy from Inter Milan in 2002, follows after just ten months of administrative shenanigans in the footsteps of team mate and compatriot Roberto Carlos, who picked up his Spanish nationality in August, eight years after joining from the same Serie A outfit.
Fellow Brazilians Robinho and Julio Baptista are next in the queue to undertake the same move.
Barcelona's 18-year-old Argentine Lionel Messi, naturalised as a Spaniard on September 26, has also gone down the same road in double-quick time. Normally, one would have to wait for two years for the actual processing to be effected.
Under Spanish law, natives of some Latin American countries, Portugal, Equatorial Guinea and Andorra can all ask for Spanish papers after two years of residence.
But for nationals of other countries it can be slow going.
"Unfortunately, there are citizens from a first zone and then a second zone," Karla Casillas, a Mexican who told AFP she has been waiting for her papers for four years.
The ruling on three players per top
flight football team has shed light on the problems experienced by the likes of Messi, who had previously found that as a non-EU player his chances of first team action were limited.
Rival teams Alaves and Deportivo La Coruna tried last month to persuade the Spanish authorities to prevent Messi receiving an EU slot on the grounds he had been offered it during the season.
"Technically, it's called naturalisation but we'd call it a requalification. Ronaldo has been requalified, " editorialist Carlos Toro wrote in Friday's El Mundo.
According to Friday's sports daily AS, Real has already "put into action" the naturalisation process for Baptista and could also "take on a non-EU player in January" in the transfer window to take the foreigner's place now left vacant by Ronaldo.
Those who are left in the slow lane find it difficult to remain sanguine about the two-speed process.
Her husband, Rolando, "has the same skin colour" as Ronaldo, but had to wait four years for his Spanish identity card.