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@oleggorky906 That’s total bull. FIFA has strict citizenship and eligibility criteria. Those black French players were all born in French and grew up in France, their parents or grandparents immigrated to France for work opportunities. Guess what; Multiculturalism was always around in Europe, it’s not exclusive to America. If anything; former French colonies get good French players with ancestry from their country but who would not be good enough to play for France to play for them instead.
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@oleggorky906 Oh yeah cricket is a joke sport with no integrity. They let players move around to new countries all the time. Shady sport riddled with match fixing. I just took exception to the idea that France raided African nations for their soccer team. That’s bull, France is home to large minorities of people of African heritage, and they’re better off for it.
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Apart from soccer…
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⁠ @SafeeDaCruz That is total crud. Cricket had been played internationally beyond just England and Australia long before the 1980’s. Both England and Australia have been playing a combined “West Indies” team with Jamaica & other Caribbean countries since the 1920s. And they have been playing South Africa since about then also. And since the 1950s they had also been playing India, Pakistan, New Zealand, etc.
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Cricket is a pretty garbage game. But hey it can’t be any worse than NASCAR.
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@Brighta Baseballs and cricket balls are about the same size and weight. Baseball pitching and cricket bowling are about the same speed. Except in baseball the ball comes straight at you while in cricket it hits the pitch first, losing a lot of its speed. The areas a baseball are likely to hit a batter have more vitals than the legs and hands where a cricket ball might hit a cricket batsman. So I don’t think you know what you think you’re talking about. And hahaha if you think that cricket is as dangerous as full contact sports like (American) football or (Ice) Hockey or Rugby. Let alone fighting Sports like Boxing.
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@Brighta And do you imagine that no baseball batter ever has ever died after being hit by a baseball to the head or even to the neck?! Oh you’ve been hit by a cricket ball before? How about let a baseball pitcher hurl one at you and see if that’s not painful. Cricket balls and baseballs are both about 5.5 oz. Top Baseball pitchers can make the path of the ball band by making the ball rotate in flight. There are over a dozen different types of pitches. Cricket bowlers (and they have to bowl with a straight arm, looking silly) have to use the big giant seam to make the flight path bend. Then they have to be either seamers who bounce the ball in its seam, swingers who use the seam and its drag to create a false bend, or spinners who can actually rotate the ball for a real bend. And the spinners are a lot slower than seamers and swingers. The different bowlers have the one style can’t have a wide ranger of different deliveries like a baseball pitcher usually does. Try playing baseball for once Gupta and see which sport is the joke here. And try playing Tennis too while you’re at it, unlike cricket it can’t be played by fatso’s.
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@Brighta You don’t know what it is but you also tell me that you laugh at it. Hahaha. Okay.
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@Bigman1S-jp3by Yeah. It’s a bat and ball game originating in England where two teams of 11 men compete to score more runs.
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