the english FA started a campain to promote more home-grown players black quarterbacks
here are screen caps of their facebook page:
a few observations: there are more spanish, german and italian players because they are better
they are better because they don't have many blacks (blacks mature earlier than whites, outmuscle them in the youth categories, and then they are worth nothing once the whites are fully developped physically)
and there are more french players because they are very cheap (the mean wage for a professional player in france is the lowest of those mentionned countries)
they said "how many harry kanes are there out there?"
and they also mentionned a young player from southampton i think, targett, as an example of a good home grown player
both are white (i'm very happy for harry kane by the way )
but then they post about the english youth teams:
:yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck:
in this one they say that they can produce good young players because they have won youth tournaments:
but winning those kind of tournaments doesn't prove that you can produce players that will be good enough in the future
and finally they posted a picture of an U21s team from years ago, to complain about the fact that many players from that team weren't given a chance in the premier league i guess
there are like 4 whites and 7 blacks
then all the blacks are relatively unknown, while in the picture there is cahill (titular at chelsea, one of the best defenders in the world) and barnes (english international), both white
in the comments under the picture, they posted the names of the players:
"Anton Ferdinand, Lee Camp, Liam Rosenior, Leroy Lita, Gary Cahill, Gabby Agbonlahor, Wayne Routledge, David Bentley, Nigel Reo-Coker, Leighton Baines, Kieran Richardson"
and some complained about the fact that relatively few of them made it to the senior national team, while others noted that it was the same for pretty much every youth national team
overall this campain seems pretty phony and doesn't address the real problems
i wouldn't mind a limitation on french players though since the reason why they are imported in such numbers is only financial