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 <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org>
