mate wrote:
African StarI know you're pulling legs. But this is a silly exercise. All those Brazilians teams look by and large the same for me.
Talent is talent. Nobody has a monopoly on it.
I'll give that Brazil has long featured excellent
Black footballers. But the explanatory factors behind such success isn't their race, but rather everything we discuss on CE: opportunity, program management, facilities, sports science, coaching, and sheer luck in producing special players.
Brazil always had a large population pool. Maybe under modernization less kids per 1000 play football, regardless of color? Maybe Brazil hasn't kept up in the evolution of the game?
I've seen all-Black Nigeria crash at WCs. I've seen all-white Croatia crash at WCs. Clearly nobody has a monopoly on making fools of themselves!
Stay tuned for the emergence of the US. You'll see a diverse team...and how the aforementioned explanatory factors produce a team greater than the sum of the parts. Ironically, I think the US will emerge to provide another consistent tier 1 Americas team...leveraging all our people.
Cheers, Mate
Mate you mae some salient points in regards to "opportunity, program management, facilities, sports science, coaching" if Africa had these things they would be perennial world cup contenders just like hw black dominate basketball, boxing, track and field and key positions in American football. There was a time when Nigeria used to have one or two athletes in the men and women's 100, 200 and 400 meters in the Olympics but since science, doping and advanced training concepts emerged in track and field Nigeria has been left behind and you rarely see Nigerian athletes in those events anymore.
If we are able to incorporate the modern scientific methods in sports Africa would dominate world football, even without it we compete admirably with the best in the world.
My controversial, unscientific reason for this is that when the climate changed in africa and resources became scarce it was the bigger, stronger and faster Africans that were able to dominate the landscape and the weaker Africans were forced out and they emigrated to Europe and other lands where evolution, mutation and adaptation made them white and blue eyed. And I also believed that a latent hatred and fear of the Africans who drove the out still remains in the dna which is why so much hatred and wickedness has been visited upon us by the descendants of these weak Africans who had to use their brains to survive rather than their brawn in harsher conditions while out ancestors basked and chilled in the land of plenty until our weaker cousins came back with guns to dominate us but they still can't run faster or jump higher they just run smarter and jump swifter with the of mother freaking science. That's my theory and I am sticking to it
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