Sorry if this has been posted before now, but I just saw this over at the Alternative Right website. Its by Joe Kowalski who has written a bunch of good CF articles. Its about the racial makeup of the teams in the World Cup. Imho, this would be a great article to link on the home page.
http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/zeitgeist/black-men-can-t-kick/
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Soccer and the Rising Tide of Color</h2>
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Soccer --
fútbol,
Fußball,
futebol, football
-- is the world's most popular sport, and literally hundreds of
millions of people are now watching the 2010 World Cup. The championship
has also attracted the interest of many non-sports fans since it's
being held in South Africa and marks the first ever World Cup held on
the African continent.
The media coverage of the event -- at least the American coverage on
ABC and ESPN --monotonously details the alleged evils of apartheid and
the glories of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto_uprising" target="_blank">Soweto
riots</a>. Various segments between matches portray Nelson Mandela as
little short of a god and faithfully follow Hollywood's White
Devils/Black Angels script. Needless to say, there is no discussion of
ANC terrorism or the murders of over
4,000 white farmers since the end of apartheid.
Race is also on display on the pitch and for all the talk of
diversity, multiculturalism, and a global community, most of the 32
teams in the field feature racially exclusive teams.
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European and South American teams dominate world soccer and have won
every single World Cup. But to make the event a truly global affair,
there are quotas for each region so that everyone feels represented.
I watched each opening round game and noted the races of all 11
starters for each squad. All five sub-Saharan Africa squads (Nigeria,
South Africa, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Cameroon) start all blacks. All
three Asian teams (Japan, South Korea and North Korea) start all Asians.
The one North African team (Algeria) starts all Arabs. The eastern
European teams (Slovenia, Slovakia, and Serbia) start all whites.
Australia and New Zealand are not soccer powers but each qualified
this year. Australia starts an all white team and New Zealand starts 10
whites and one aboriginal (probably a Maori).
Latin American teams are a mixed bag racially, much like the region
itself. The races of some of the players are often hard to pinpoint. Are
they mestizos or darker skinned whites of Portuguese or Spanish
descent?
The three white nations of Latin America start mostly white sides.
Argentina starts nine or 10 whites with one or maybe two mestizos.
Uruguay starts nine whites with one clear mestizo and one clear Negro.
Chile starts seven or eight whites with three or four mestizos.
Mexico and Paraguay have a starting 11 consisting of a mixture of
whites and mestizos. Honduras starts eight mestizos and, surprising,
three blacks.
Brazil starts four whites and seven players who are black or racially
mixed.
The United States again made the tournament and has a decent shot of
advancing to the next round of 16. Racially, the team starts seven
whites and four blacks. Mestizos are now about 15 percent of the U.S.
population, but there are only three Hispanics on the team and one of
them -- Carlos Bocanegra -- is clearly a white Hispanic. The two
mestizos are backups and there are no Asians or Middle Easterners on the
U.S. squad. The U.S. is being overwhelmed with millions of soccer-mad
immigrants every year. Why aren't these people making the national team?
So far, most nations of the world have teams that racially represent
their people. Black Africans, Asians, Arabs, and Eastern Europeans (God
bless ‘em) can support teams that reflect them 100 percent. Whites in
Australia and New Zealand can still proudly support a team that looks
like them.
Blacks are overrepresented on the Brazilian side, but most Latin
American nations have squads that reflect their racial demographics.
Americans are no doubt used to blacks being overrepresented on national
sports teams, but the current squad has enough whites so that it is not
viewed as alien -- like the often all-black
U.S. national basketball team.
We are constantly told that multiculturalism and diversity are
unalloyed blessings. But of course, white nations are the only countries
that are enjoying these blessings -- and it is starting to show in the
national squads of the Western European teams.
Italy has won four World Cups including the last one in 2006. They
cling stubbornly to the view that Italians don't need blacks to win
World Cups and still start an all-white (and, with one exception,
all-Italian)
side.
This year's team is pretty old and may not be a threat to win it all.
But it will no doubt go far into the tournament.
Germany has won three World Cups and is always a threat to win it
all. This year's starting squad can be described -- depending on your
definition of white -- as either all-white or as nine whites and two
Turks. Like Italy, the Germans have stubbornly resisted starting
supposedly superior black players.
France has
shown no such resistance. Historically not a soccer
power, they won their only World Cup in 1998 with four black starters
and apparently attributed the victory to having more blacks. They have
consistently fielded seven blacks starters since and this year is no
exception as the four true Frenchmen who start for France stand out on
the pitch. The French side represents Africa and not the traditional
French nation. Happily, the side is beset with squabbling and will
probably go home early this year.
England
won their only World Cup in 1966 with an all-white side but is perhaps
going the way of France. They started a bare majority of whites over
blacks in their first round game. They may start 7 whites for the next
game but the team is trending black. Perhaps if England is bounced from
the tournament in the first round it will change things. The team
disappointed in a first round draw versus the U.S.
Spain
is the favorite to win the whole thing. Like the Italians, the Spanish
are all white and have found great success lately. The winners of the
2008 European Cup are loaded with talent but inexplicably lost to
Switzerland in the first round. If they can regroup and win their first
World Cup it will be another major argument against the Africanization
of European soccer.
Portugal
also has an outside chance to win the whole tournament. Led by the
great Cristiano Ronaldo, the squad starts 10 whites and one black.
The Greeks round out a solid Southern European contingent with an
all-white side.
A few years ago, the Netherlands seemed on the verge of becoming
another France. This year's squad starts nine whites but has several
black substitutes who will see playing time. Like Portugal, they have an
outside shot at winning the World Cup.
Denmark has 10 whites and one black who distinguished himself by
accidentally hitting the ball into his own net and losing the first game
for the Danes.
Switzerland starts two blacks and an Arab. But the team still retains
an overall European identity and pulled a huge upset over Spain in the
first round of games.
By looking at the 32 squads we can learn some lessons in terms of
race, immigration, and demographics. Because of immigration, the
complexion of Western Europe is changing, and it is showing up in the
composition of soccer teams that used to be all-white up even into the
1990s.
Since only white nations let in millions of people of different
races, they are the only countries to be effected by demographic change.
Asians, Africans (both Arab and black) and mestizos can be sure their
national soccer teams will always represent them. If Eastern Europe can
hold the line on immigration, they can also be confident that their
teams will always reflect them as well.
Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. are also being heavily hit by
Third World immigration, though it has yet to have a major impact on the
complexion of their squads. But for how long?
Another lesson is that it is mainly blacks who are changing the face
of the Western European soccer teams. There are many more Arabs and
Middle Easterners in France and the Netherlands than blacks. Why are
these significant minorities absent from the starting lineups? In
England, there are many more Pakistanis, Indians, and Bangladeshis than
blacks. Yet they are not represented on the national team. As noted,
mestizos and Asians have yet to make an impact on the U.S. side.
A proper HBD response might be that blacks are better athletes than
whites, and much better athletes than Arabs, Asians, and mestizos. But
that is certainly not reflected in the World Cup results. All-black
African sides are losers who have never come close to contending for the
World Cup, though soccer is universally played throughout the Dark
Continent. Some might say they need better training and coaching, but
all black African teams are currently coached by whites. Even the Asian
sides usually outplay the all-black nations. Though they enjoy home
field advantage, the record of the all-black teams at this writing is a
pathetic one win, four losses, and two draws. It is possible that none
will advance to the next round of 16.
On a more political note, I noted the typically fawning news coverage
the media have given South Africa. They have not been too curious about
the robberies of players and fans and the killings (one victim was
Nelson Mandela's great granddaughter, which kept him from the opening
ceremonies) that have occurred around the event.
Several commentators have referred to the "the rainbow nation"Â of
South Africa without wondering why the national team is
all black.
This is especially ironic as the ANC has mandated quotas for the sport
of rugby to ensure some black representation in this white-dominated
sport.
On a positive note, it looks as though this year's champion will be a
nation with an all-white or almost all-white side. Argentina and
Germany looked particularly good in the first round of play and Spain,
Portugal, Holland and the Italians cannot be counted out. Only Brazil,
with a racially mixed squad, will threaten white dominance of the World
Cup this year.
Let's enjoy it while it lasts.<div>
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<a href="http://www.alternativeright.com/authors/joe-kowalski/" target="_blank">Joe
Kowalski </a>
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Joe Kowalski writes for
CasteFootball.us a website
devoted to race and sports.
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Edited by: Colonel_Reb 
