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I wanted to address this one separately.
The only player from our footie national team that wasn't born in Argentina was Higuain, and that was because his father was playing in France when he was born.
Argentina and Brazil are South America's springboard to europe for footie and due to language, a lot of the best from Chile, Uruguay, Pero, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador come to our league first. If we wanted to poach for football, trust me, we could. We do not. Not only that, it's incredibly easy to get a permant residency permit and later citizenship.
I am not saying it's a good thing, but we kinda take pride in not poaching. We've had players win world cups with other teams (trezeguet for france, camoranesi for italy) but we don't like it the other way around.
This is not a minor thing for us. Messi's argentinity (?) is still questioned by many. I kid you not.
That's a really unfair and ignorant view and the easiest way to disprove it is to look at what we do in other sports.Let's face it the only reason why Argentina don't pick foreign born players is because none of the surrounding countries play it really and they don't have the money to draw them into the Jagures.
The only player from our footie national team that wasn't born in Argentina was Higuain, and that was because his father was playing in France when he was born.
Argentina and Brazil are South America's springboard to europe for footie and due to language, a lot of the best from Chile, Uruguay, Pero, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador come to our league first. If we wanted to poach for football, trust me, we could. We do not. Not only that, it's incredibly easy to get a permant residency permit and later citizenship.
I am not saying it's a good thing, but we kinda take pride in not poaching. We've had players win world cups with other teams (trezeguet for france, camoranesi for italy) but we don't like it the other way around.
This is not a minor thing for us. Messi's argentinity (?) is still questioned by many. I kid you not.