Pippo Inzaghi

How dare you neglect Alex Del Piero!

This is why I love America. Do you think anyone really hates the San Antonio Spurs because they have multiple foreigners on their squad from Duncan, to Parker, to Ginobilit?

No but there are a shitload of white people who hate the NBA because it’s dominated by black players and black culture.

Easily the most gifted player the league has ever seen.

Beckham and Henry would likely not agree

I can understand the fans hating Hulk. He‘s Brazlian

Fixed, for concision

Hulk is latino not black

I can understand the fans hating Hulk. He was a massive financial investment in fee and wages, and has underperformed, and is already demanding to leave the club. But basing things on the foreign nature of the players is really fucking stupid. The only way they’re going to attract top talent is to pay them insane amounts of money, and the Russian teams want to be global brands especially with 2018 approaching so it makes sense that they and Anzhi are doing this.

I mean for god’s sake Spartak paid ten millions pounds for Aiden McGeady, that’s not a league built on shrewd financial moves.

/Rob Parker’d

Hasn’t Bilbao even gotten to the “World Cup” point? IE if your parents were born in the area and moved prior to your birth you, as the player, are still eligible to play for Bilbao? Thought I remembered catching that during a match last year, commentators essentially giving Bilbao shit for having this rule but turning a blind eye towards it if it meant getting talent on the field.

Bilbao have scaled back their Cantera policy a fair amount, yeah. Sociedad got rid of theirs altogether in ’89 so they could sign John Aldrige.

Athletic Bilbao only fields Basque players

Hasn’t Bilbao even gotten to the “World Cup” point? IE if your parents were born in the area and moved prior to your birth you, as the player, are still eligible to play for Bilbao? Thought I remembered catching that during a match last year, commentators essentially giving Bilbao shit for having this rule but turning a blind eye towards it if it meant getting talent on the field.

And while there’s clubs who buy only specific players — Athletic Bilbao only fields Basque players — this is racist as hell. But UEFA won’t do shit about it nor will the Russian FA.

I could somewhat argue it as trying to protect your domestic league from being so overrun with foreign talent the local kids stop playing (like Americans and baseball) but throwing in the blanket statement about ‘gays’ and ‘blacks’ is moronic…Why mention blacks and gays at all unless you’re racist homophobes?

Shit like this happens all the time in soccer. There is a club in the Israeli top flight that won’t sign an Arab. I have no problem with it. It’s your club, sign who you want

Fans of a sport where rolling on the ground after the slightest bit of contact is considered a virtue shouldn’t really be the defender of manly men.

Yea, leave that to the women, amirite Tubes?

/tubes’d