Which European ethnicities are best at each sport?

[Nurzat]

Romania is sometimes good and at some point it was among the best in:

gymnastics (Dan Grecu, Nadia Comăneci, Simona Amînar, Marian Drăgulescu)

weightlifting (Nicu Vlad)

fencing (Mihai Covaliu)

tennis (Ilie Năstase, Simona Halep)

canoeing (Ivan Patzaichin)

handball (national men's and women's teams; individually: Cristian Gațu, Cristina Neagu)

athletics (Gabriela Szabó)

boxing (Mihai Leu, Leonard Doroftei, Lucian Bute)

kickbox (Cătălin Moroșanu, Ionuț Iftimoaie, Raul Cătinaș)

[Creoda]

Di Stefano was maternally Irish and French. Zico and Batistuta are white, yes.

Falcao? Which one? This one? Mixed look.


Messi is white passing, but his grandma look like this


Socrates white med? Nah. Typical brazilian pardo.




You may cherrypick some white Brazilian star players, doesn't change the fact it was always a largely mixed race team and the mixed non-med guys greatly contributed to their success... Argentina too, but obviously whiter. They haven't win anything with the white passing Messi btw. When they were carried by the mestizo Maradona they were much more potent.

Btw: I edited my earlier post, I added a table of ballon dor winners by nationality.

I meant Falcao the Brazilian. My point was that these white Latin American players give a slight edge to Meds, even though Northern Euro and Southern Euro countries maybe relatively equal.

[Universe]

I meant Falcao the Brazilian. My point was that these white Latin American players give a slight edge to Meds, even though Northern Euro and Southern Euro countries maybe relatively equal.

The med argument could maybe work in Argentina's case but Brazil? I don't think so.

This is Brazil's football team from 2002, when they won world cup:

1998, runner ups

1994, world cup winners

etc

and ballon dor winners aren't majority meds, it's a mixed bag, with lots of northern euros.

[Bornoz]

Yugoslavs are best European basketball players without any question.
Anybody who claims another ethnicity can drown in his/her delusions.

[The Blade]

Football - Germany (given history as a whole even if they failed at the 2018 Cup), followed by Italy and France
Volleyball - Russia, Serbia
Female football - The Netherlands, Germany, England, France
Female tennis - Russia

[Damião de Góis]

Football - Germany
Volleyball - Russia
Handball - France
Tennis - Spain
Rink Hockey - Portugal
Futsal - Spain
Snooker - England
Athletics - Russia
Basketball - Russia
Cycling - France

[Mikula]

Hurling: Irish
Camogie: Irish
Gaelic Football: Irish
Rounders: Irish
Golf: Ireland
Competitive Drinking: Irish

Czech handball - Czechs
Futnet - Czechs
Beerdrinking - Czechs

[Aldaris]

Czech handball - Czechs
Futnet - Czechs
Beerdrinking - Czechs

Skopek je na me tezkej jak hajzl. Ja davam vino. ;-)

[Mikula]

Skopek je na me tezkej jak hajzl. Ja davam vino. ;-)

Jižní Morava?
Z které vinařské oblasti seš?

[Aldaris]

Jižní Morava?
Z které vinařské oblasti seš?

Jizni Morava, to jo, ale ze bychom zrovna my byli znami vinem, ne tak docela. Brno, Recky,