And two plus billion people in India and China don't produce super
footballers either! There must be an Asian connection.
anthony
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2006, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
On Jul 7, 2006, at 12:59 AM, Anthony D'Costa wrote:
You are right that a great many Africans play for European teams. But
many of these seemingly African were either born in Europe or went
there
early on. Those Africans who play for foreign clubs but hold
citizenship
of their home countries play for their national teams, if they get
selected in such tournaments as the World Cup.
You mean if their home countries actually get to the World Cup,
right? It seems to me that many countries in the world don't have
stable economy that would allow them to have large bases of sports
players (the larger the base, the higher the summit*) and support
professional athletes.
* There are exceptions -- a country may be very rich but still poor
at sports . . . like Japan!
Yoshie Furuhashi
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