Sport should be open to anyone, White, Black, Asian, Indian, Native, Aborigine. The point of this particular blog is to show the progression from a nation that sported a completely WHITE team of players and fast forward to modern times where leading sports have brought in more and more black african athletes.
ENGLAND football team that beat WEST GERMANY in 1966 at WEMBLEY, ENGLAND
An ENGLAND 1983 Footbal team line up. This team features 2 Black African players.
An ENGLAND 1996 Football team line-i[. One Black African player in the lineup, i.e PAUL INCE (left, back row)
A recent photograph of the ENGLAND football team (about 2015 or so)
It features the likes of Gary Cahill, Adam Lallana, Jordan Henderson, Harry Kane. This line up has 5 players who are of Mixed Race or Black African descent.
ENGLAND Under 20 FOOTBALL TEAM who won the WORLD CUP in South Korea this year (2017)
The team features about 10 players of Black African descent from a squad of 21 players. So almost half the team is of Black African descent.
This is a FRANCE 1976 Football team line up. FRANCE was open to allowing players of Black African descent into their ranks. FRANCE has allowed many immigrants from its French speaking colonies in Africa, North Africa, Caribbean and even South America and Asia.
FRENCH NATIONAL team line up from the 1980s featuring Michel Platini, all except 1 of the players are White.
A recent line up of the FRENCH National Football team featuring Olivier Giroud of Arsenal. This particular line up features 7 players of Black African descent.
GERMANY Football team line up from the 1986 World Cup Mexico
An all White line up
It is only in recent times that the German National Football team has succumbed to allowing Black and/or asian players into their ranks.
This is NETHERLANDs football team for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina
A recent line up of the NETHERLANDs national team 2017 includes 3 players of Black African descent
The BELGIUM national team line up of 2016 includes 2 players of Black African descent.
SWITZERLAND National Team now has 2 players of Black or Asian descent
The AUSTRIAN football team features 1 player of Black African descent
SCOTLAND now has 1 player of Black African Descent
WALES football team has 3 players of Black African descent or mixed race.
NORTHERN IRELAND has 1 player of Black African descent
This is really about showing how western european nations have embraced the issue of RACISM compared to Eastern European nations that have not. Probably because the leading nations are to be found in Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain,Portugal, Switzerland, Austria and Great Britain. These nations also have a history of colonising other parts of the world so many of the Black African players on display in West European teams is probably down to immigration from Colonial nations particuularly in Africa and the Caribbean or South American continent.
Many of the black players in the British lineups may have originated from Nigeria, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, South Africa or other African colonies or former colonies
French players may have come from Algeria, Morocco, Cameroon, Sengal, Cote d'ivoire, Mauritania, Congo.
This blog is meant to show the progression from completely white or predominantly white team lineups to a mix of White, Black or mixed race players.
For the sake of RACISM, it seems that Western nations have succumbed to a Black takeover of sporting teams. This is not only witnessed in the realm of FOOTBALL, but also in the realms of BASKETBALL, RUGBY, ATHLETICS.
It can be argued that Sport for the common people is slowly becoming infiltrated by people from certain social backgrounds. White people in western nations have come out of the slums of inner city areas or common working class areas and moved up in the world. This perhaps left a vacuum for immigrants to fill these inner city and working class areas due to unforseen circumstances like War, hunger, famine or discrimination in their native lands. Discrimination from unfair laws or financial rules may have provoked native africans to leave their homestead in favour of a better place to reside.
The drawback of a Commonwealth of nations is that eventually some members of those nations may decide to pack their bags and go to the source of where all the wealth and economic success is originating.
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