"Week" tour world cup
The World Cup quarter-final match between France and Uruguay is interesting, with Uruguay from South America playing almost all of them of European descent, the vast majority of whom have dual citizenship of Uruguay and Spain or Italy, looking more like a European team.
On the other hand, the French team, the player's hometown comes from all over the world, at a glance, there are many African players, and some people ridicule the French team as an "African All-Star Team".
Indeed, france are probably the most diverse of the 32 teams Chinese, they send 7 to 8 or more African-American players in almost every game, other French-born players, the ethnic composition is also complex, such as striker Griezmann is a mixture of Germanic and Portuguese in Alsace, goalkeeper Lloris is Monte Carlo Catalan...
Today, let's go back to the roots and talk about the bloodline of French football.
▲ Some people joked that the French team is an "African All-Star Team"
Unlike Germany, Italy, England and other European football teams, French football has had the heroic spirit of "the world is the same" from the beginning. Both the World Cup and the European Championship were initiated by the French. The use of players has always been "eclectic", and the inclusiveness of French culture is greatly reflected in football. Nine of the great stars in the history of French football are not purebred Frenchmen. Some people say that the blood of French football is not pure, in fact, the blood of French football has never been pure.
Raoul Diagne (1910-2002)
▲ The French team participating in the 1938 World Cup already had an African-American player, Raoul Diagne (fourth from right)
Raoul Diagne was born in French Guiana of Senegalese descent. His father, Blaise Diagne, was a prominent French politician who served as mayor of Dakar, senegal's capital. Raoul Diagne was drafted for france in 1931 and was the first black international in French history. He competed in the 1938 FIFA World Cup and after retiring as head coach of the Senegalese national team.
Just Fontaine (1933-)
▲ Moroccan Fontaine, who scored 13 goals for France in the 1958 World Cup
Fontaine was France's greatest player before Platini, scoring 13 goals in the 1958 Fifaith World Cup in Sweden, a record that no one has ever broken. Born in Marrakech, Morocco, Fontaine spent his early years playing in Casablanca and later as head coach of morocco.
Raymond Kopa (1931-)
Raymond Kopa, a Polish descendant wearing a Real Madrid shirt and holding a Champions League trophy
Fontaine's teammate, another famous French star of the fifties who played for Real Madrid, Raymond Kopaszewski, was a descendant of Polish immigrants.
Hidalgo (Michel Hidalgo, 1933-)
▲ Hidalgo, the honorary coach of the French team in the 1980s and of Spanish descent
Michel Hidalgo, the honourable coach who led France to the 1984 European Championship, was born in Normandy to a father from Spain and a Parisian mother.
Miguel Hidalgo Castilla, mexico's national independence leader
Hidalgo's parents named him Michel in honor of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexico's national independence leader, because Michel in French and Miguel in Spanish are cognates.
Michel Platini (1955-)
Platini (right) was influenced by the football of his father, Aldo Platini (left).
Platini's parents, Aldo Platini (left) and Anna Pizzineri (right)
Michel Platini, the greatest star in the history of French football, was born into a family of Italian immigrants in Lorraine. His father, Aldo Platini, was also a professional footballer, and his mother was Anna Piccinelli. Platini's grandfather, Francesco Platini, immigrated to France after World War I, and Platini is considered "three generations of immigrants".
Éric Cantona (1966-)
Manchester United "King" Cantona was not successful in the French national team
Manchester United "King" Cantona was born in Marseille, his grandfather Joseph Cantona was from Sardinia, Italy, and his mother was a native of Barcelona, Spain. Cantona's grandfather, Pere Raurich, was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War.
Zinedine Yazid Zidane (1972-)
Zidane visited his hometown of Algeria
Zidane was born in Marseille to be a Berber from Algeria.
Zidane's hometown in Algeria
Youri Djorkaeff (1968-)
Zidane and Djokov (right)
Zidane's midfield partner Djokov in France was a father of Kalmyk from Poland and a mother from Armenia.
Didier Deschamps (1968-)
Deschamps was very successful as a player and coach
The current French team coach Deschamps is a Basque from France.
Hugo Lloris (1986-)
Loris, son of a Catalan banker
French goalkeeper Lloris was born on 26 December 1986 in Nice to a wealthy family of lawyers and a banker from Monte Carlo, of Catalan descent. Hugo Lloris' younger brother Gautier is also a player, playing at centre-back. Loris and former France international Yoann Gourcuff (a Celtic descendant from Brittany) played tennis from Nice to the French national team. Loris was the highest-ranked junior tennis player in France before the age of 13.
Samuel Umtiti (1993-)
▲ Defensive main force Umtiti almost became a Cameroon international
Umtiti was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon, and moved to France at the age of two. The Cameroon Football Association attaches great importance to him, and Roger Mira has invited Umtiti to represent Cameroon in international competitions, but has not succeeded.
N'Golo Kanté (1991-)
Kanter is Deschamps' beloved general
Kante's parents are from Mali, and the Mali national team called him up for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, but Kante did not apply. In January 2016, Mali called up Kante again, but Kante eventually chose to represent France.
Raphaël Varane (1993-)
▲ Varane opened the scoring for France yesterday
Varane was born in Lille, France, the son of a father from martinique, a French overseas province, and a mother from the northern French municipality of Saint-Amand-Lesso.
Paul Pogba (1993-)
▲ The core of the French team's midfield, Pogba
Pogba was born into a family of Guinean immigrants on the outskirts of Paris, and at Juventus he had the nickname "Octopus Paul" (Italian for Polpo Paul).
Antoine Griezmann (1991-)
Griezmann, the icing on the cake for the French team
Griezmann, like "Professor" Wenger, was a Germanic ethnic group from the Alsace region, so the name looked German and his mother was of Portuguese descent. Born in the Spanish Real Sociedad, Griezmann's sister Maude Griezmann was taken hostage and rescued while watching a performance at the Batacran Theatre during the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks.
Olivier Giroud (1986-)
Although Olivier Olivier Olivier did not score, he posed a great threat to the Uruguayan defence
Giroud's grandmother and grandmother were both Italian, and his older brother was also a professional player, teammates with Henry and Anelka in France's U15 and U17 teams, and later gave up his career to become a nutritionist.
As for Mbappe, who turned out to be a child, and the background of his parents, I have already said it before and will not repeat it.
▲ French team family portrait
At this point, do you still think that France is just an "African All-Star team"? They are simply the "World All-Star Team". The four seas and the world have the best embodiment in French football, their football is so inclusive, can the strength not be strong?