Are there any polls or data on how ethnic French people in France feel about their French World Cup team being <20% ethnic French? Do you think most disapprove of it?

submitted by 8thmonitor from self.whatever

https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/87-of-france-s-world-cup-winning-team-are-immigrants-or-children-of-immigrants In 2018, 87% of their team was not even French. It is probably lower for 2022. Some players are Europeans but not French. For example, Greizmann is Portuguese+German. Giroud is Italian. Hernandez's brothers are Spanish.

I think only 3 players of the 25-man team are fully French. Veretout, Pavard, and Rabiot. Yikes.

I know France is 40% African, but are the remaining ethnic French people really fine with this? I am unsure because the entire nation still loves World Cup despite how the team doesn't seem to represent the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sickle_Cell_disease_screening_of_newborns_in_Metropolitan_France_in_2018.png PNG

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[–]agent_pecan 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I bet most people think it's weird but then again cucked Americans seem to not care that their sporty ball teams are all black.

[–]Oyveygoyim 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Burlt that isn't the WORLD CUP. the world cup doesn't make sense anymore since most teams have foreigners now.

[–]8thmonitor[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

True.

[–]jet199Instigatrix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As opposed to Soiux?

[–]Chipit 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The BBC certainly had nothing good to say about the Croatian team that beat Brazil. They were clearly on Brazil's side the whole game. They can be counted on to oppose whites at every turn.

[–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Awfully racist of you to notice, OP

[–]package 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

sportsball is for homos

[–]WoodyWoodPeckerHah he he he hah! 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Immigration has ruined diversity in Europe.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sports are not about representation. That part does exist in something like the world cup, and it is essentially lost to countries like france, but there is more to enjoying soccer than that. The team and it's performance still represents the quality of soccer in the french league. There is still the skill and spectacle. It still represents the colors of the country, and argualbly that is all that is left of France after all these years of open borders.

With that said, I too mourn the cultural and ethnic representation that used to be a part of the olympics in particular, but all international sports in general. It is certainly not what it used to be.