Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

Fair enough. I think the ease with which one can distinguish between French players whose great grandparents lived in France from those whose great grandparents lived in Africa is a factor.

I wonder if the German team had many players, including its biggest star, with names like Podolski, if you’d see the same remarks.

And thank you for finally explaining that in order to explain what’s racist about it, you have to write a paragraph about Argentine culture. You’re saying the joke is making fun of the French team and people, not the Senegalese team.

I went back and looked at every post about this, and I repped Casc because his was the only post making your point. Good job Casc!

 

Lolwut? I said LITERALLY this in post #8356. You even replied to it in your effort to not get it.

 

I know a few people that were not OK with Ozil or Can, and probably with Tah or Sane...

 

Ummm...

 

There are plenty of Black players, past and present, whose great-grandparents, or great-great-grandparents, or great-great-great-grandparents, born in France's overseas territories, in French Guiana or the Antilles, never set foot in Africa, let alone Senegal.

That makes that idiot Aguero's statement even more stupid.

 

Bwa ha ha ha ha!!!

Bristol City head coach Gerhard Struber believes the Championship should have VAR brought in to create "more fairness".

The Robins saw a late equaliser disallowed for offside in their 1-0 defeat by Millwall on Saturday, resulting in a huge post-match melee involving staff and players from both sides.

 

Strange that mgrs only complain when the don't like the call!

 

Que paso aqui?

Federal police in Argentina carried out multiple raids Tuesday on the headquarters of the Argentine Football Association (AFA) and at least 17 soccer clubs.

The raids were part of a judicial investigation into alleged ties to financial services company Sur Finanzas, which is under investigation for alleged money laundering and tax evasion. Ordered by federal judge Luis Armella, the more than 30 raids were conducted simultaneously on first and second division clubs and the AFA headquarters in the Argentine capital.

Sur Finanzas, owned by Ariel Vallejo, sponsors AFA tournaments and several first and second division clubs.

A judicial official with access to the case told The Associated Press that police officers are searching for contracts signed by the clubs with the financial firm and other documentation stored on electronic devices. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter.

https://apnews.com/article/argentina-soccer-police-raids-0487f601df9342d33435d9178803ee21

 

Spurs usually have a pride corner flag. Slavia Prague asked them to move it for security reasons, and they did. The club’s LGBT supporters group condemned the action, saying SP shouldn’t come into Spurs’ house and dictate what it looks like.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6875604/2025/12/09/tottenham-slavia-prague-lgbtq-pride-flag/

 

'We don't have no gays in our countries!"

They'll find plenty of hateful pols here to back them up too.

Egypt and Iran are calling on football’s governing body to intervene in the LGBTQ+ Pride celebration planned to coincide with their group stage match in Seattle at the 2026 World Cup.

Egypt’s Football Association (EFA) said on Tuesday it had sent a letter to Fifa urging them to prevent any LGBTQ+ Pride-related activities during the national team’s match against Iran next June.

The EFA argues in the letter that such events would clash with the cultural and religious values of the nations participating in the match.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-pride-match-celebration-world-cup-match-2026

 

Sucker

It seems as if UCLA won't be able to rely on charitable name, image and likeness donations from Troy Aikman anymore. During a recent appearance on the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch, Aikman -- the UCLA quarterback who went on to a Hall of Fame career with the Dallas Cowboys -- recounted the specific instance that turned him off from donating NIL money.

"I gave money to a kid, I won't mention who," Aikman said. "I've done it one time at UCLA, never met the young man. He was there a year, he left after the year. I wrote a sizable check, and he went to another school. I didn't even get so much as a thank you note. So, it's one of those deals, to where I'm done with NIL. I want to see UCLA be successful, but I'm done with it."

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...il-name-image-likeness-college-football-ucla/

 

Seems sub optimal

The 11 US World Cup host cities are facing a collective shortfall of at least $250m, due to a highly restrictive deal from Fifa that may yet see the federal government – as well as local and private funding – have to pick up the costs.

Some cities are so desperate that they are being forced into pitches for sponsorship to “local dry cleaners and mechanics”, in the words of various sources. Fifa’s own commercial contracts mean cities can’t even do deals with local convenience store chains, as their sale of food is considered to cut across primary partners, such as McDonald’s, all as the global governing body is set to retain virtually all of the $11-14bn revenue the 2026 World Cup is expected to generate.

 

I'm guessing the orange King Donald the Turd will intervene and threaten to remove Seattle as a host city unless Seattle backs down.