Re: Morroco 100 % mercenaries
Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:32 am
It is impossible to make this argument properly, when people do not even judge it right.wiseone wrote:I have no problem with it.
After all Belgium and France have a bunch of Africans and Spaniards in their team! Switzerland have a bunch of Albanians and Kosovans, and half the Albanian team are Swiss citizens!
1) One fallacy is the good ol, but they are African argument, and who said they aren't?
2) Another fallacy is the good ol, but what about Western countries benefiting from African immigrants
3) And another fallacy is to draw from a direct parallel, i.e. foreign citizens who are Alien to European systems.
I am coming at this 100% from the perspective of Systematic Integration. Our dual citizens, as Nigerian as they are (and yes they are very much Nigerian), are unfortunately products of a foreign system 10 times moreso than they are of our system.
These are Africans and yes they are definitely Africans), who have NEVER played in Africa in any capacity, who go straight into the National team. To base a team completely around this concept is pointless. It serves no purpose IMO.
There is nothing I hate more in this world that creating something just for the sake of creating it. Why replicate a system, call it a different name, and pass it off as novel? We MUST ALWAYS have players who have played in the Nigerian system in some way, in the team. Yes they can be complemented by some players who haven't, but if you have a team based entirely around such players, that is not an African system. Perhaps it is a football team of people with African heritage and an African togetherness, but it is a French, English, Spanish, German system.
This has nothing to do with identity or a bias. I am saying something that a two year old should be able to grasp. What is within the system and what is without?
For the last time, let me say that there is NOTHING WRONG with some injection of players who have never played in Africa before, but if you have a team based entirely on such players, it is mind blogging. It is not simply a question of familiarity, but more importantly the fact that you are dealing with players that you played no part in and you never planned for. It is fitting square pegs into round holes, something that is permissible in small doses, but is ludicrous when it becomes the system as a whole.
I do not even consider this to be an argument. But just for curiosity's sake, can someone actually make an argument (and please don't go off on a tangent about how they are African, they ARE African and that is not what I am arguing).