I have noticed in the last few games that a black substitute on a European team has come on, and then made an immediate impact by scoring a game-winning or tying goal. Divock Origi scored the winner for Belgium against Russia; Valera made a superb header to keep Portugal's slim hopes alive; Leroy Fer and Memphis Depay secured the Netherlands place atop its group.
-USA lost black clown altidore on injury early in the world cup, but it only helped them
white player dempsey is the team's top scorer so far
-klose comes in for germany against ghana and ties the game,on a corner kick obtained by schweinsteiger seconds after replacing the arab flop khedira:
German manager Jogi Low immediately went to his bench. Yanking the ineffective Sami Khedira and scorer Goetze, he tossed on Bastian Schweinsteiger and the old head Klose, known for popping up to score at the right time.
Seconds after entering, Schweinsteiger won a corner kick, and off that, Toni Kroos sent in a ball that was nodded on to Klose, as usual, in the right place at the back post for an easy tap in. The goal made Klose the team'€™s all-time leading scorer at the World Cup, surpassing his idol Gerd Muller, and tied him with former
Brazil star Ronaldo on 15 for the all-time overall record.
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/sto...as-germany-escapes-with-point-vs-ghana-062114
schweinsteiger will most likely start now instead of khedira
-during belgium-algeria:
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/matches/round=255931/match=300186479/report.html
mertens had an instant impact on the game after replacing the arab flop nacer chadli at halftime
he scored the winning goal
after that he won his place in the starting 11
-during the USA-ghana game, white player zusi changed the game, and provided the winning goal:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-cup-2014-spotlight-on-graham-zusi/
he started the next game because of his performance, he took altidore's place numerically
-benzema started the first game for france, as the main striker, which was a surprise
in the previous games giroud was the main strikers and benzema was forced to play as a winger (he hates that)
france had trouble scoring against the very weak honduras team and benzema had to wait for a penalty to score
giroud started in the next game, and he almost immediatly scored from a header, showing what benzema lacks: the tools to play as a team's main striker
giroud even set up valbuena's goal beautifully
benzema didn't score until giroud was substituted, when the match was already finished
in the french media giroud was called man of the match
he won his place as france's main striker and forced benzema to play wide, which he hates
etc etc, i'm not going to describe again the game-changing momments provided by black players like eder (misses against the US and terrible game) pepe (dumb red card against germany) and many others that were mentionned in this thread
i'm just going to post that to illustrate marcelo's game changing potential:
his face after scoring the first goal of the competition, an owngoal
i have the feeling that it's not over yet
he had a very bad season at real madrid, he's totally out of shape, yet he plays instead of felipe luis karminski who has been the best left back of the spanish league and of the champions league