bharotshontan wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 15, 2018 10:52 pm

FIFA needs to modify their rules and require players that play for any national team cannot be having dual citizenship. Professional players have to choose from onset of their career what country they represent. Countries like France maintain very lax immigration and citizenship rules between themselves and their ex-colonies, but essentially what this is doing is that various of the African-origin players are sitting around waiting to be picked for France team, and only if they don't make it, do they go opt for their original country's team like Cameroon or Mali or Senegal. Particularly for this world cup, other than Nigeria and Senegal, none of the black or sub-Saharan African teams even qualified. How will they if they are sending their best to France?

Watching this French Empire team beat up Croatia in final was depressing. It is almost like a final between a club like Real Madrid beat a national team. In an increasingly globalizing world, FIFA needs to decide what a world cup with nations playing against each other means. I am not against blacks in European teams or whites in African teams. I was comfortable with at most 1-2 players on say English team but that too they had Anglo surnames and were totally assimilated black-British players. This France model in 2018 (also Belgians did this as well) is ridiculous, most of the blacks aren't even French surnames but proper African surnames, no assimilation at all. How this is a national team? On other hand, this robs African countries of their best players and making them do with the ones that couldn't make the cut for the France or England or Belgium or Holland or (insert European country with former colonial empire). This isn't good for future of football or increasing its global footprint either.