Do you really follow soccer Oleg? Almost all of the great West African
soccer players have fled their countries to play for the great European
teams. Twenty percent of the British premiership is of West African
ancestry. Get a grip and study up.
On 5/1/01 5:42 PM, "t-and-f-digest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 11:01:26 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Oleg Shpyrko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: t-and-f: Follow the money was- Flat earth Creationism
>
> I personally try to continue to follow soccer, which I admit is not easy
> living in the US, but I honestly couldn't name a single west african
> soccer player. Can you?
>
> From FIFA world ranking - top african countries:
>
> 22. South Africa
> 30. Morocco
> 32. Tunisia
> 34. Egypt
>
> Not a single west-african country ranked in top 35, unless you count
> North-african Morocco as "west-african", which of course conveniently becomes
> east-african for purposes of running-related discussions.
>
> If Moroccans, South Africans, Portugese, Spaniards and Mexicans
> can succede in both soccer and distance running,
> how can we still argue that Kenyans cannot be competitive in soccer because
> of their body types?
>
> What great Western African soccer teams are we talking about?
> Cameroon and Nigeria had a few good moments, but on the world scale...?
>
> Oleg.
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