It's not my opinion, it is fact. I'm going to hold my temper, but you are being a fool for saying this is racism. They are not going out and saying, "No black people", or "No Asians". Your logic is totally flawed. They are not being racist.
Exactly. Plus I can only imagine all of the lawsuits if this occurred. Because footballers have jobs, and if this came into effect, it'd be like saying "Oh, we have too many Indians working at 7/11, time to fire them in place of our home grown Americans".
You keep hammering on this as though it applies to everyone the way it applies to you. I'm a Pittsburgh Steelers (American football) fan, have been for more than 3/4 of my life. I don't care where the players come from, and wouldn't care where the players came from if I lived in Pittsburgh. I realize that's not a perfect analogy because all of them are American citizens, but I wouldn't care if they all came from other countries, either. It's professional athletics. It's about putting the best talent on the field, IMO. And I felt that way when I was still a little kid. Exactly. Very well put. And if the Game in ANY country needs some sort of protectionist legislation to preserve its "soul" (whatever that means), that's just sad. Football as an entity doesn't care who plays where- only people with axes to grind about other nations and cultures care about such things. If there's anything uniquely (insert name of nation here) AND successful about a game, it will be taught and thus preserved. If it doesn't result in success on the pitch, the question of whether it needs to be taught OR preserved can (and probably should) be raised.
by being forced to devolp talent......isn't that the point? ......and btw, I think after Brazil, Germany; who you mention above are the most successful national team on the planet.
That will hardly accomplish anything in my eyes (this rule), in regards to producing talent. Those who are truly good shine through, and are a cut above the rest. A country like Germany would hardly care about a rule like this from what I've seen of the Bundesliga.
I am 100% in favor of it. Thus, the european clubs will stop bleeding south american football empty of their good players.
It is a little different because 1) as you said, they are all from USA anyways and 2) American sports are all just based and play in the USA, there is no equivalent of the Champions League/Copa Libertadores/UEFA Cup/Copa Sudamericana/FIFA Club's World Cup/World Cup etc etc
Major League Baseball is full of foreign players. I haven't heard many complaints about the Dominicans taking over the "national pastime" because they're so darn good. Likewise for the Europeans, Argentines, and Africans in the NBA. Look at France- it seems like that whole league is foreign. Has it stopped France from being a major force?
I hear a lot of England supporters saying its a rubbish rule and so on. What this rule will do is breach the gap between the big clubs and small clubs. It does mean that domestic players and overseas players prices will go up substantially. But for england, it does mean the NT in about 5 years will probably be in the top tier of world football. The leagues from up and coming places like Japan where there is the money to compete in the european transfer market to a degree, they're limit is 3 overseas players so they will get better. World football will be a lot closer than it is now. Some leagues will benefit, only the big leagues like the EPL will suffer. What the smart teams will do is buy as much young talent from their country and train them up for when they are forced to play them.
Ronaldinho To Reject Galaxy Fortune http://www.goal.com/en/articolo.aspx?contenutoid=739732 "Ronaldinho is set to turn down a mammoth pay package offer from LA Galaxy to join David Beckham in Major League Soccer because he wants to stay at the highest level in Europe. The American outfit are said to have laid a deal on the table that would see the Barça star earn around €32m-per-year after tax, according to El Mundo Deportivo. That staggering contract would be split down the middle with Ronladinho having a €16m playing contract as well as receiving a further €16m for image rights. After making a profit on the capture of Beckham from Real Madrid, the Galaxy hierarchy believe that they could also do the same with the Blaugrana's fallen idol." This is how it starts!
no because they just give citizenship to those players along with a Les Blues shirt and solved the problem
Saying that a person can be hired, but then that the company can discriminate against them in how they can advance is still discrimination -- you know these time-honored strategies (and these people all got to work!): a) black people have to work in the kitchen b) women have to take a 10 min break every hour and get paid 60% of the men's salary because of it Telling a player that he can be on the team, but can't play because of his nationality is discrimination. I don't quite get the point of all these ideas...are they trying to ruin the development of soccer in emerging nations by ensuring that the players there can't move as freely to better teams/leagues? Or are these roundabout ways to control the players better?
One concern with it is that it might not take into account players deciding to play for another country through family links. A club could develop a player from the age of 12, then at 19 he might decide to play for Wales because his dad is Welsh, and suddenly he'd become a foreign player.
Blatter is an idiot. This 6 + 5 rule is stupid. If a team starts incurring injuries to key "home land" players, it may have to change other parts of the team, use players out of position, and overall team formation and tactics just to satisfy this rule. It's a disastrous idea.
well South America has had this discrimnating rule forever now as well as the world, so why can't Europe. I care about National team football, so if it betters countries then i am all for it. Blatter is saving football from the greedy EPL and teams like Inter and Arsenal who have lost there idenity, fielding a whole team of foriegns is disgraceful and should not be allowed. what about a 4+7 rule, that may make more sense, But only for England.
Then u just limit the total amount of foreigners on the team. You can't say that a team can start a game at 6+5 then finish at 3+7 due to subs. That creates a bunch of problems. I still think it's not a good idea. It's the scape goat for England NT's lack of success. They should concentrate in better ways to "raise" better players.
Inter's name in Italian means International. They were founded on the basis of playing many foreigners. So they are keeping there identity.
Can anybody think of any players of the type who would benefit from this type of rule. Players who were not thought of as amazing prospects as youngsters, and only developed into one because they were given the chance. The only people I can think of are the naturalised Brazilians like Senna and Deco. But guess what, this rule would only serve to harm their development. Coaching at a young age will make different national teams better, not thrusting undeserving players into the first team at 20.