List the countries from best fit to worse for the Greek under-21 football team

[Tooting Carmen]

http://www.epo.gr/TeamSquad.aspx?a_id=22513&NewsType=22&Competition=4481&Season=2000000083&Country=7&Team=1000001024&Round=2000000235&Group=1000164298

Italy, Spain, Portugal, Malta, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Albania, Romania, Serbia, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, UK, France, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Lebanon, Syria.

[Tooting Carmen]

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[♥ Lily ♥]

Are they ethnic Greek people?

http://www.epo.gr/media/STOCK_PHOTOS/ETHNIKI_ELPIDON/U21_2015_NEW/Vergos.jpg
http://www.epo.gr/media/STOCK_PHOTOS/ETHNIKI_ELPIDON/U21_2015_NEW/Siopis.jpg
http://www.epo.gr/media/STOCK_PHOTOS/ETHNIKI_ELPIDON/U21_2015_NEW/Ioannidis.jpghttp://www.epo.gr/media/STOCK_PHOTOS/ETHNIKI_ELPIDON/U21_2015_NEW/Giakoumakis.jpg

[Tooting Carmen]

Are they ethnic Greek people?

http://www.epo.gr/media/STOCK_PHOTOS/ETHNIKI_ELPIDON/U21_2015_NEW/Vergos.jpg
http://www.epo.gr/media/STOCK_PHOTOS/ETHNIKI_ELPIDON/U21_2015_NEW/Siopis.jpg
http://www.epo.gr/media/STOCK_PHOTOS/ETHNIKI_ELPIDON/U21_2015_NEW/Ioannidis.jpghttp://www.epo.gr/media/STOCK_PHOTOS/ETHNIKI_ELPIDON/U21_2015_NEW/Giakoumakis.jpg

So far as we know, yes.

[Sikeliot]

Some of the exotic ones are Pontic or Cretan, based on surname.

It goes in order:

Most: Italy, Malta, Turkey, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal
Intermediate: Cyprus, Albania, Georgia, Serbia, Romania, Armenia, France

They don't fit anywhere else, but I guess I would say Ukraine and Lebanon at equal distance and then everything else.

[pelikarski]

Some of the exotic ones are Pontic or Cretan, based on surname.

It goes in order:

Most: Italy, Malta, Turkey, Bulgaria, Spain, Portugal
Intermediate: Cyprus, Albania, Georgia, Serbia, Romania, Armenia

They don't fit anywhere else, but I guess I would say Ukraine and Lebanon at equal distance and then everything else.



I think they are not posted for the first time and even the former member Trun commented they would look atypical for Bulgaria.

And in my opinion they are atypical for a group of Greeks

[Sikeliot]

I think they are not posted for the first time and even the former member Trun commented they would look atypical for Bulgaria.

And in my opinion they are atypical for a group of Greeks

They do, but they fit better there than in say, France, or Lebanon, or Russia. There are a lot of very dark Pontic types in this set.

But even then despite being dark haired, most of them have European features.

[Sikeliot]

This is the type of look that is very Balkan and wouldn't fit well even among Italians:

http://www.epo.gr/media/STOCK_PHOTOS/ETHNIKI_ELPIDON/U21_2015_NEW/Masouras.jpg
http://www.epo.gr/media/STOCK_PHOTOS/ETHNIKI_ELPIDON/U21_2015_NEW/Konstantinidis.jpg
http://www.epo.gr/media/STOCK_PHOTOS/ETHNIKI_ELPIDON/U21_2015_NEW/Mavrias.jpg
http://www.epo.gr/media/STOCK_PHOTOS/ETHNIKI_ELPIDON/U21_2015_NEW/Charisis.jpg

[pelikarski]

They do, but they fit better there than in say, France, or Lebanon, or Russia. There are a lot of very dark Pontic types in this set.

But even then despite being dark haired, most of them have European features.

So you suppose all of them fit really?

[Sikeliot]

So you suppose all of them fit really?

Except the ones with more Armenoid features. What would you think/where do they fit to you?

A lot of them do have the facial structure and look I associate with Balkan people.. square headed look.

Tooting Carmen directed me here to say they do not as a whole look more 'European' than Sicilians, but even with the dark Pontic types a lot of the others look Balkan or like dark East Europeans.

[pelikarski]

It's rather true they fit better in Balkans than in Eastern Europe, but dark Eastern Europeans in the sense of Poles, Ukrainians, point at least 3 people out of those who fi there

[Sikeliot]

It's rather true they fit better in Balkans than in Eastern Europe, but dark Eastern Europeans in the sense of Poles, Ukrainians, point at least 3 people out of those who fi there

There are one or two.

My question is, of the listed regions where do you think they pass? I would argue they fit better in Bulgaria than in Armenia or the Levant too.

[Odin]

Best: SE Europe.
Worse: NW Europe.