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Isn't it unfair that Portugal puts Brazilians into their team?
I watched the game today and noticed that Portugal has 2 brazilian players in their lineup that make a huge difference. Deco and Pepe. They did not grow up in Portugal and are 100% Brazilian. They were only given citizenship for the purpose of playing for Portugal. I know that countries like Turkey also have a Brazilian in their team, but I seriously question the fairness of that. China could just fill up their team with South Americans and Europeans that did not get to play for their country and then they would all of a sudden be a powerhouse in football.
What are your opinions on that and where do you think the line should be drawn? I think it is incredibly unfair and it undermines the purpose of the entire competition.
To safaridi:
It is not a league. It's not club football! It's countries playing against one another and it kind of undermines the purpose.
For the people who pointed out countries like Sweden or Germany. That point is not valid. Their players were either born in that country or grew up there from an early age. Portugal, Turkey, Poland etc. put brazilians on their team who did not grow up in that country and were not born there. They were purely acquired to make their team stronger.
Second, for the people mentioning here that brazilians are of portuguese decent. The language is of portuguese, but brazil is much more mixed that portugal and also consists of other ethnicities. According to your logic, spain could play all players from latin america, and even all europeans could play for virtually any country. after all, they all migrated from countries at one point. brazil has existed for too long and is not even purely portuguese by far and therefore that argument for me does not count.
10 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Deco is actually 100% Portuguese by blood. What's your point???
Also, Turkey has a Brazilian, A Frenchman, a Englishman, and two Germans.
But you're right, its Portugal who are abusing the citizenship rule right? At least Pepe and Deco come from a country that speaks the same language as Portugal, and shares a good amount of history with them. (if you can consider it the same language...but thats a different debate for another time.)
Nicola D - Not all European countries allow dual citizenship.
Also another note...It usually takes at least 5 years of living a country, as well as proving you are fluent in the language and know a lot about the culture to become a citizen, so its not like Pepe just decided two weeks ago that he was going to play for Portugal. Its not that easy.
- 1 decade ago
It is fair because Brazil was a Portuguese colony before they became independent and if the player wants to play for Portugal not Brazil then why not. Chances are their ancestors could be from Portugal...
- 1 decade ago
If you are from Brazil you can chose if you want to play for Brazil or Portugal, is up to the players. I think it's fair since Brazilians have Portuguese blood anyways!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Italy has Camoranesi, France has half of Africa, Croatia has Eduardo, Switzerland is like United Colors of Benetton, Germany has Podolski, Klose and Trochowski, Sweden has Ibrahimovic etc etc..... I don't mind the ''foreign'' players because in most of the cases those players were rejects from their national teams and started to play for those NTs at young age, the bigger problem is foreign coaches for NTs!!!!
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- 1 decade ago
Frankly, its the rules of the game. If people are losing because they don't have any good Brazilians on their team, then get some! Is getting an international player to play for your league bad? No, it's simply trying to be the best team.
- 1 decade ago
definately unfair.... it's kinda like how the french team has no french grown up and raised in france players... only benchers... this is a lot worse and unfair too cuz i hate the french team but i love portugal and brazil!!!
- Nicola DLv 41 decade ago
European can hold 2 citizenship at the same time but Asian country does not allowed that.
- 1 decade ago
Yup, It is unfair, without those players other teams could just double team C.Ronaldo.
