Who do the Cypriot footballers resemble more: the Greek footballers or the Lebanese footballers?

[Tooting Carmen]

Cyprus

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[Tooting Carmen]

Greece

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[Tooting Carmen]

Lebanon

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[Mentallyll]

Interesting, Mohammad El Hayek looks very Euro.
I would say the Greek ones, because a lot of Lebanons look clearly Arab, whereas it is a small minority among Greeks and Cypriots. But still hard to say.

[Ketchup]

Cyprus

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Wow, a lot of ethnic looking people in the Cypriot team, like a huge amount, probably most. A bit surprising cuz they're so Anatolian Farmer heavy.....thought they'd look more standard Euro

[Tooting Carmen]

Wow, a lot of ethnic looking people in the Cypriot team, like a huge amount, probably most. A bit surprising cuz they're so Anatolian Farmer heavy.....thought they'd look more standard Euro

The point about Cypriots is that they are genetically intermediate between SE Europe and the Levant and actually plot quite distinctly from most Mainland Greeks and even many Islanders.

[Tooting Carmen]

Any votes and suggestions?

[Odelia]

Jesus christ there should be an image restriction on this forum. Can you post like 5-7 people or the soccer team in a group? I'm not going to look through all of them, and especially when loading takes some time!

[Oliver109]

Some of those Lebanese look surprisingly similar to Pakistanis from Punjab, Mirpur and general northern areas.

[Tooting Carmen]

Jesus christ there should be an image restriction on this forum. Can you post like 5-7 people or the soccer team in a group? I'm not going to look through all of them, and especially when loading takes some time!

There is. I can only post as many as thirty images in a single post.

[Tooting Carmen]

Some of those Lebanese look surprisingly similar to Pakistanis from Punjab, Mirpur and general northern areas.

So would you say the Cypriots look more like the Greeks than the Lebanese?

[Oliver109]

So would you say the Cypriots look more like the Greeks than the Lebanese?

Greeks slightly

[sacha]

I agree, it would be better if these were posted in some sort of collage or just group photos, as it is hard to compare when you are scrolling back and forth.

I picked the first photo from Google that was high quality enough to see people's faces. Open the images by themselves because I know the previews will be bad haha.

Cypriot team
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/125256796_175478634228566_1376011511779306877_n.jp g?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=4dc865&_nc_ohc=nntCZdkcucsAX_t4iNL&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=00_AfD6_KVtC6NFf-qLm_6h-lBCd8jkkiALceA6QT47tZY0Zw&oe=65C66E5D

Greek team
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Greece_national_football_team_%282010-11-17%29.jpg

Lebanese team (two blondes in the back are half swedish)
https://assets.the-afc.com/migration/h/h/hht3lguq9haljd7vrxhm.jpg

If you want to verify that all the people are of that specific background, I understand, but then I think the collages are a good idea. I think the Cypriots look more like the Greeks on average, but most of them are a little bit of both.

[Voskos]

At uni we had Cypriots, they looked nothing like Lebos. I would say they either looked typically Cypriot, or typically mainland Greek/Italian, or typically Anatolo-Armenian of some sort.

[Avicenna]

I agree, it would be better if these were posted in some sort of collage or just group photos, as it is hard to compare when you are scrolling back and forth.

I picked the first photo from Google that was high quality enough to see people's faces. Open the images by themselves because I know the previews will be bad haha.

Cypriot team
https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/125256796_175478634228566_1376011511779306877_n.jp g?_nc_cat=110&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=4dc865&_nc_ohc=nntCZdkcucsAX_t4iNL&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=00_AfD6_KVtC6NFf-qLm_6h-lBCd8jkkiALceA6QT47tZY0Zw&oe=65C66E5D

Greek team
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Greece_national_football_team_%282010-11-17%29.jpg

Lebanese team
https://assets.the-afc.com/migration/h/h/hht3lguq9haljd7vrxhm.jpg

If you want to verify that all the people are of that specific background, I understand, but then I think the collages are a good idea. I think the Cypriots look more like the Greeks on average, but most of them are a little bit of both.

There's two half swedes in that Lebanese team btw the two blondes.

Also group collage photos aren't really helpful, instead close up facial pictures would be better to identify similarity or differences .

[Tooting Carmen]

At uni we had Cypriots, they looked nothing like Lebos. I would say they either looked typically Cypriot, or typically mainland Greek/Italian, or typically Anatolo-Armenian of some sort.

How'd you define 'typically Cypriot'?

[sacha]

There's two half swedes in that Lebanese team btw the two blondes

Ah alright I will add that to the post, sorry I do not keep track of football I just wanted to put these together for my own reference.

[Kess]

Greeks obviously. Levantines are just too dark.

[Kess]

At uni we had Cypriots, they looked nothing like Lebos. I would say they either looked typically Cypriot, or typically mainland Greek/Italian, or typically Anatolo-Armenian of some sort.

+1

Turkish Cypriots look more Anatolian than Greek Cypriots imo.

[Voskos]

How'd you define 'typically Cypriot'?


the two on the left (taller man and the woman)

https://www.tlife.gr/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/1h-1.jpg

[Odelia]

There is. I can only post as many as thirty images in a single post.
I know but there's too many single pics of these dudes and honestly I cannot ''compute'' them all at once, nor does my laptop. Try putting group photos, not individual photos which sprawl like a long list here