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dubylhover:
as a human being,is it logical to bench a striker who had 25 league goals and won d EPL golden boot? hodson is playing a flat 433 WHR else wud barkely have played if not cm....and to think you justify sterling starting is just appauling

dubylhover:
kale is d best striker in England hence do golden boot..barkely would have started instead of Rooney...besides that 433 he started with won't favour any of d strikers

chrisley024:
England the champions of friendlies



@elampiro, competition proper don start not those 100% friendlies and qualifiers you praise them for.

GBR1:
That dude couldn't even figure out that you were on his side?

blueAgent:
Put on your thinking cap before posting stupid things. Is Kalou white? or Depay, Ashely young, Shaun wright,Malouda,Nani as well as many black attackers and wingers.the list is endless when did we starting measuring players position based on racism.?

You blacks keep justifying the whiteman's assertion that blacks have low IQ.with statements like this your own.

chrisley024:
How can Portugal draw with Iceland
This Euro just dey pay Nairabet

Nihilist:
Oga look in the mirror.

That is what black looks like.

How many players that look like you play in creative positions in Europe?

Either as a 10 a la Silva or a deep lying Playmaker like Fabregas.

I will admit mixed race playears for sake of discussion, but Arabs?

Come off it man.

Arabs are not black.

Brazilians are completely mixed and have already been classed as south American, so let's leave them out tesco conversation. Neymar is on record as stating that he is not black sef...

The main guys are Blacks, either born in Africa or in diaspora that have at least one pure black parent.

Please submit your answer.

SIRcumalot:
I'll do the same too.
this profiling is partly responsible

SIRcumalot:
answer honestly,
who would you be more comfortable with ,solely based on appearance without any fore knowledge of their skill.
a black DM or a Caucasian DM.

Nihilist:
Or maybe we're not just good enough in those positions

Nihilist:
Nobody is arguing that.

I never said that Black people don't have technique.

My point was simple....Even in countries where there is a reasonably close distribution of Blacks and Whites, Black players tend play specific roles on the pitch. Defenders, wingers, Enforcers and Big Strikers.

That's why I listed all those countries where they have several black players, and all are more or less the same thing.

That's why I asked where the Black Pirlo, Ozil, Xavi or Inietsa is. Where is the black Carrick? or the Black Fabregas? Black Silva? Black Cazorla? Black KDB? You cannot see these players cos they dont exist.

How about Goalkeepers? How many Black Goalkeepers are there regularly starting in the EPL?


Read this article and see what I'm saying
https://sports.vice.com/en_uk/article/do-football-managers-pigeonhole-black-players

An extract:

Nihilist:
5 of the 11 players that lined up against Russia were black.

3 of them were defenders. One was a Winger

3 of the current German team are black. Two are defenders, one is a Winger

Half the Portuguese team is black. The black players are either defenders, defensive midfielders or wingers...

Czech Republic has a black player...he is a defender.

I could go on and on.

The current Dutch team is 50% black. They are mostly defenders, defensive midfielders and wingers.

France team has many black players...mostly defensive midfielders and defenders again

Look at the black players for Belgium

There's a reason this stereotype is repeated everywhere you look.

olabode89:
Nani is actually an African from Cape Verde. Ronaldinho is black but might have some white blood in his ancestral line like most black Brazilians .

dopeJemi:
Or we can also look at it from the ratio of technically gifted white players to technically gifted black players, then we see what we come up with

dopeJemi:
You know you still haven't distorted the fact that black players are less technical, you know that right? You are just giving me reasons why they are less technical

This an argument about football in general, world wide, if I give you the task of naming 50 black technical players, will you be able to handle it without cracking your brain? Whereas I can just pick my 50 from barca, madrid, bayern Munich, atletico madrid, dortmund, man city, chelsea

weedtaker:
darmain was substitute at the 59min, dis darmian is not better than varela.

Diademk07:
Quite right.
Also, the bone structure in the feet at that young age is still quite tender and with constant feel of the ball, it would likely shape up in a way that would be receptive to the ball, thereby leading to a good close control/first touch.

Diademk07:
I actually think the reason why most of the talents are found across the South American region is due to the fact the players often start playing with the ball at tender ages. I think they even have a beach competition involving 5yrs kid players.
Messi for example started playing at the early age of 5yr old with his father as a coach. By then, his foot already got accustomed with the feel of the ball which would only get better as he grows older.
Okocha too was born among footballers who were his brothers. There's a likelihood that he started playing at a tender age with his brothers.
No doubt that talent is a factor but starting early also helps.

AdeLaNa1:
See ehn i dont know what ur problem is. This ur obsession of Coogar cant end well for u. U really should stop.

The first time i came to this thread, there was a Phil Jones argument going on. And i immediately made my stance about him known. So i dont understand why someone cant make his opinions known without u finding a way to blame Coogar. Abeg wetin be my own with Coogar na......

Coogar this, Coogar that. Abeg carry ur wahala and go!

Dadehmola:
Stop distorting the facts - Phil jones is a hopelessly pathetic sicknote who has suffered all forms of injuries during his stay at the club!

http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/players/3540/phil_jones_injury.html

Elampiro, isnt it obvious that jones is a liability and should be loaned out to Bolton and retire afterwards??

Nihilist:
elamps I don't dislike Jones....I dislike the whole club

AdeLaNa1:
On This Day In 2011, ManUtd agreed a deal with Blackburn Rovers for 19 year old defender, Phil Jones. The rest is injury.

Diademk07:
If Roy is gonna play Sturridge, it had better be in the striker role 'cos he's just as useless as Sterling on the wing.
The problem with England is the lack of a playmaker to provide the incisive passes in the final third. They played well especially in the 1st half but then, looked clueless in the final third and could only create half chances.
I don't even know which of the players in the squad could come in to be the creative foil for the team. Barkley is an erratic ball hugger with zero intelligence, so is Wilshere.
The attack need some pace too. APart from Sterling, the other 2 are just too sluggish. If the midfield couldn't create enough, the attack should atleast be pacy enough to compensate for the lack of creativity in the midfield like Manutd team under Van gaal.

Diademk07:
I think the midfield is already set, there's no way one of Rooney, Alli or Dier would be taken off, that's why I mentioned creative playmakers like Eriksen/Payet who could operate on the wing and still provide the needed creativity.
I don't get the hype round Wilshere though. No doubt that he's a technician but so is Bernando Silva yet their endproduct are rubbish.
People often talked about his display against Barca which I don't get because he didn't outclass Barca's midfield with his playmaking nor sublime passing skills. He only dominated Barca with his physical presence, dribbling runs and his technique to evade pressure was immense but apart from this, he did nothing else.
Personally, I think his intelligence is zero.