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MagicFan101 wrote:MagicFan101 wrote:If we are going to have an OT about a world sport we should at least pick an entertaining one.
Hopefully Novak can crush the ass grabbing Nadal tomorrow.
Not the “crushing” win I was hoping for but I’ll take it!
pepe1991 wrote:MagicFan101 wrote:MagicFan101 wrote:If we are going to have an OT about a world sport we should at least pick an entertaining one.
Hopefully Novak can crush the ass grabbing Nadal tomorrow.
Not the “crushing” win I was hoping for but I’ll take it!
are you from Serbia or
MagicFan101 wrote:pepe1991 wrote:MagicFan101 wrote:
Not the “crushing” win I was hoping for but I’ll take it!
are you from Serbia or
No.
I’m just a fan of how Novak plays versus Nadal. I also appreciate Novak’s personality whereas Nadal is a dud in interviews.
Regardless it was a fantastic match by both men.
pepe1991 wrote:Croatia vs Africa .
Laughable that country that has 4-6% of citizens who are black, is represented by 18 of 23 african born players who have zero connections with France but whatever.
It's almost like Lebron playing for China because they payed the most.
since i was in France, to make things, worst, they treat minorities like **** up until they need them for sports ... especially muslims.
Xatticus wrote:pepe1991 wrote:Croatia vs Africa .
Laughable that country that has 4-6% of citizens who are black, is represented by 18 of 23 african born players who have zero connections with France but whatever.
It's almost like Lebron playing for China because they payed the most.
since i was in France, to make things, worst, they treat minorities like **** up until they need them for sports ... especially muslims.
All but two were born in France (Mandanda and Umtiti). Those two both immigrated to France at the age of two. Every member of that team is a French national independent of their athletic ability.
Estimates are that between 5 and 8 percent of the French population are what we would classify as black, but it's actually illegal in France to classify people according to race.
I can't speak to the socioeconomic inequalities among ethnic groups in France, but I'm quite certain that it would be far more egregious to deny native born citizens the right to represent the national team due to their ethnic origins.
The country that actually only affords citizenship to those capable of playing sports at a high level would be Germany.
It might surprise you to know that only 13 percent of Americans are classified as black. The NBA might give you a false impression of our ethnic composition.
pepe1991 wrote:Xatticus wrote:pepe1991 wrote:Croatia vs Africa .
Laughable that country that has 4-6% of citizens who are black, is represented by 18 of 23 african born players who have zero connections with France but whatever.
It's almost like Lebron playing for China because they payed the most.
since i was in France, to make things, worst, they treat minorities like **** up until they need them for sports ... especially muslims.
All but two were born in France (Mandanda and Umtiti). Those two both immigrated to France at the age of two. Every member of that team is a French national independent of their athletic ability.
Estimates are that between 5 and 8 percent of the French population are what we would classify as black, but it's actually illegal in France to classify people according to race.
I can't speak to the socioeconomic inequalities among ethnic groups in France, but I'm quite certain that it would be far more egregious to deny native born citizens the right to represent the national team due to their ethnic origins.
The country that actually only affords citizenship to those capable of playing sports at a high level would be Germany.
It might surprise you to know that only 13 percent of Americans are classified as black. The NBA might give you a false impression of our ethnic composition.
It's still laughable how 5% of blacks represtend whole country in all sports, in same time same allegedly biggest multi culti France supporters ,who now "love " their blacks, are ones who cried like little b**** in 2015 to close borders and now refuse to take new middle east fugatives and doubled down security on Alps borders to stop African new rout. Double standards much?
Also lack of blacks in leadership positions in country shows. Power of Marine Le Pen (not to mention her father in past ) who thinks that multi culti failed shows that things are not like people pretend they are.
But even if you ignore African orginated people ( basically whole team) ,even Lloris father is from North Catalonia, Giroud granmothers are from Italy, Griezmann ( Portugees mother, father from Germany ) you get to the point where they have grand total of one player born, raised and with parents from France, in country where millions are actually born, raised and are indeed 100% French.
I still belive if your father is from Cameroon, your mother is from Cameroon, you are indeed from Cameroon.
There is also whole layer of problems with Africans who don't speek french in France but that's topic is far away from sports of national teams.
You mentioned 13% of blacks in USA, that's around 40 000 000 people, 5% in France is around what? 4-5M ?
Actually country who goes out and buys their athlets is Saudi Arabia, they were offering $1M to athletes around Europe to attend Olympic games under their flag.
OrlChamps2030 wrote:pepe1991 wrote:Xatticus wrote:
All but two were born in France (Mandanda and Umtiti). Those two both immigrated to France at the age of two. Every member of that team is a French national independent of their athletic ability.
Estimates are that between 5 and 8 percent of the French population are what we would classify as black, but it's actually illegal in France to classify people according to race.
I can't speak to the socioeconomic inequalities among ethnic groups in France, but I'm quite certain that it would be far more egregious to deny native born citizens the right to represent the national team due to their ethnic origins.
The country that actually only affords citizenship to those capable of playing sports at a high level would be Germany.
It might surprise you to know that only 13 percent of Americans are classified as black. The NBA might give you a false impression of our ethnic composition.
It's still laughable how 5% of blacks represtend whole country in all sports, in same time same allegedly biggest multi culti France supporters ,who now "love " their blacks, are ones who cried like little b**** in 2015 to close borders and now refuse to take new middle east fugatives and doubled down security on Alps borders to stop African new rout. Double standards much?
Also lack of blacks in leadership positions in country shows. Power of Marine Le Pen (not to mention her father in past ) who thinks that multi culti failed shows that things are not like people pretend they are.
But even if you ignore African orginated people ( basically whole team) ,even Lloris father is from North Catalonia, Giroud granmothers are from Italy, Griezmann ( Portugees mother, father from Germany ) you get to the point where they have grand total of one player born, raised and with parents from France, in country where millions are actually born, raised and are indeed 100% French.
I still belive if your father is from Cameroon, your mother is from Cameroon, you are indeed from Cameroon.
There is also whole layer of problems with Africans who don't speek french in France but that's topic is far away from sports of national teams.
You mentioned 13% of blacks in USA, that's around 40 000 000 people, 5% in France is around what? 4-5M ?
Actually country who goes out and buys their athlets is Saudi Arabia, they were offering $1M to athletes around Europe to attend Olympic games under their flag.
I’m pretty surprised mods are letting this post stand. Toxic viewpoint imo
axl_c_cool wrote:Sorry you guys lost Pepe, France were the strongest team in the tournament though and beat Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, and Croatia, very impressive and well deserved
MoMM wrote:axl_c_cool wrote:Sorry you guys lost Pepe, France were the strongest team in the tournament though and beat Argentina, Brazil, Belgium, and Croatia, very impressive and well deserved
Not Brazil, they beat Uruguay.
