Posted on 12/16/2022 12:36:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
France have been hit with a virus that could see the team's starting centre-back pairing miss the World Cup final, sources have told ESPN.
According to sources, Raphael Varane has small symptoms of the virus and fellow defender Ibrahima Konate has not left his room after feeling unwell.
France coach Didier Deschamps said they were taking precautions to stop a virus spreading through the squad after Dayot Upamecano and Adrien Rabiot missed the semifinal win over Morocco due to sickness. "In Doha, temperatures have fallen a little bit, you have air conditioning which is on all the time," Deschamps said after the win against Morocco.
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Saw France play for a few minutes the other day. Team looks more like French Equatorial Guinea than France.
I see a bit of Niger in their team photo, too.
They’d better go get some more Africans, quick
And American football teams look imported from Africa as well.
Argentina is one of the whitest countries on Earth.
They have recently been getting crap for having a non diverse team.
As we all know, negroes are truly underrepresented in sports…
Croatia also mainly Croatian ... why is Croatia so good at soccer? Because everybody there has the itch to play.
(Modric, Stankovic, etc etc)
Just a more general comment, the European countries with multiple African players didn’t necessarily recruit them from Africa, they came to play in European soccer leagues as young talents or they are second generation. At the same time, some still play for their African homelands such as Senegal who were at this World Cup and did fairly well.
Japan and South Korea, also Australia, looked to be mostly “old stock” players, Canada on the other hand mostly an immigrant team. Mexico another team without much “diversity” although scoring very well on the Hispanic index ;)
Only whitey can do wrong.
If someone asked me “Do you want to live in Nice FRA or Lagos NGA?” it would be an easy answer.
“...and fellow defender Ibrahima Konate”
Ibrahima, yet another French name.
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