Re: African soccer

[Anthony D'Costa <dcosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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