France is cheating and needs to stop cheating in competitive competitions.

[catgeorge]

Under 16 French team

[Tooting Carmen]

Majority of Black players are born and raised in France.

[Blondie]

Majority of Black players are born and raised in France.

But they are not french.

[alnortedelsur]

Majority of Black players are born and raised in France.

It doesn't matter. They aren't and will never be French. France should have a team of ethnic French players, like every other European team should be filled with natives of their respective countries.

[monsieur1]

Hahah
Funny photo

[Tooting Carmen]

They are culturally and by birth French, and if they make they best sportspeople then so be it. I am no believer in open borders, but let us not get into hysterics here. And it can work both ways too: check out the rugby teams of the UAE and Hong Kong (and even arguably those of South Africa and Namibia).

[Tooting Carmen]

More generally, while needless to say there is far more migration from the Global South to the West than the reverse, all the same the movement is nowhere near as one-way as a lot of people think. Even leaving aside current and past migrations of Westerners to Latin America and Southern Africa, Western immigrants in the Middle East and SE Asia in particular are hardly unicorns, while even the most impoverished African countries have their fair share of Western charity-workers and businesspeople, some of whom may well settle long-term.

[Hektor12]

This is no cheat this is French nation today that you see in France.

[Tooting Carmen]

This is no cheat this is French nation today that you see in France.

(Playing Devil's advocate): Would you also like to see the Turkish team filled with Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans?

[Hektor12]

(Playing Devil's advocate): Would you also like to see the Turkish team filled with Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans?

Although theyre in Turkey, they arent citizens mostly. Only a few 100k are citizen who are mostly Turkmen/Uzbek origin. Those blacks are French citizens.