Why do most Italians have blue eyes and blond/red hair if they are southern European?

[Stimpy]

Average Italian man:

[Vukodav]

Even most of the players on the Italian national team have blue eyes

In which sport? Viking games?

[AnonUser]

That's probably because national sporting teams are made up of the athletic elite.

I've never seen a short, fat, swarthy italian considered athletic elite.

None of the other southern European team have mostly blue eyes.

I've only seen short, fat, swarthy Sicilians. Not really Italians

[Svipdag]

Unless things have changed in the 59 years since I was last in Italy, I noticed no such preponderance of red/blond hair and blue eyes among Italians. The vast majority of those whom I encountered in Genova, Livorno. Pisa, Firenze, Roma, Napoli and Taranto had black hair and brown eyes. Are these latter traits confined primarily to the coast ?

[GrebluBro]

I'm talking about most Italians in general except Sicilians and Sardinians cause they aren't real Italians and that's why they look so different from them

You can exclude central Italians as well because they aren't real Italians according to you..

OOPS!! Rome is in central Italy, who cares since most don't have blue eyes blonde-red hair

[AnonUser]

You can exclude central Italians as well because they aren't real Italians according to you..

OOPS!! Rome is in central Italy, who cares since most don't have blue eyes blonde-red hair

Italians don't look like you for some reason want them to in your fantasies

[AnonUser]

In which sport? Viking games?

Of the current squad, De Rossi, Abate, Criscito, Maggio, Buffon, Marchisio, Giaccherini, and Diamanti all have blue eyes and light hair except Buffon, who's last name sounds French. That's most of them. In fact only a few of them even have dark hair and dark eyes and one of them (Pirlo) according to sources is part Sinti gypsy and not even fully Italian.

[Mn The Loki TA Son]

Average Italian man:

This. look like the average Italian man from the Italian resturant pizzeria Where I sometimes go to eat at. the only thing they look like a more older version of this guy here.

[AnonUser]

Average Italian man:

That looks more like an average Greek man

[Stimpy]

That looks more like an average Greek man

But it isn't.