Classify half-Welsh, half-Iranian rugby player Josh Navidi

[Tooting Carmen]

http://www.rugbyfiles.com/images/players/navidi_josh_2013-12-18-13-05-11.jpghttp://i1.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/article4307869.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/josh-navidi.jpghttp://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/65095000/jpg/_65095984_josh_navidi.jpg

[Kamal900]

Its difficult for me to classify, but he reminded me of an ancient half greek half persian man(forgot his name) that i've seen in Wikipedia. I would say that he can pass as an exotic Lebanese or something.

[Tooting Carmen]

Anyone else?

[Alessio]

Atlandid + Iranid

[Tooting Carmen]

Atlandid + Iranid

So he looks like an equal blend of both of his ancestries then?

[Alessio]

So he looks like an equal blend of both of his ancestries then?

Why not? I've seen some half Iranian/Dutch people and even some half Egyptian/Dutch that weren't so swarthy or non-European looking either.

[Gaston]

Hard to say, rugbymen have faces that are quite different from the average usually, and are more rugged.


The chin dimple and the shape of the jaw (mandible) in more European though. The mid face (eyes and nose) look more Iranian.

[mikeyup]

Atlandid + Iranid

Something like that.

[Deneb]

Atlantid + some Middle Eastern type.

[pelikarski]

Atlantid-Iranid Agreed, his nose looks more MENA

[Odin]

Atlantid + Irano-CM.

[Tooting Carmen]

Just to say he has played well since becoming a regular in the Wales team over the last couple of years, including in the current Six Nations tournament.

[Tooting Carmen]

He is gonna be captain on Saturday in a pre-World Cup warm up match in Cardiff against Ireland.

[XenophobicPrussian]

Lmao at "Atlantid+Iranid".

If Carmen said he was Greek, Calabrian, Cypriot everyone would be saying Med, Dinaro-Med or whatever(which are pretty much Atlantid+Iranid anyway but it goes to show how knowing the ethnicity affects the classification).

http://www.talkingrugbyunion.co.uk/images/e-014985/josh_navidi.jpg

https://d2cx26qpfwuhvu.cloudfront.net/sixnations/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/10123937/JoshNavidiMOTMSB2000-1010x568.jpg

[Voskos]

He actually looks Southern Italian.

[Bellbeaking]

CHG CHAD

[Tooting Carmen]

He's been doing well so far in the World Cup.

[Tooting Carmen]

He is now part of the British and Irish Lions squad in South Africa.

[Mixdguy17]

Atlantid + Iranid, he can pass in the Balkans and the Levant. He reminds a little of Hercules in the Disney movies lol.