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<blockquote data-quote="Cruz_del_Sur" data-source="post: 923433" data-attributes="member: 55747"><p>That is such an unfair statement and one that you obviously can't back up.</p><p>The closest proxy we have is what's being done in other sports. Please, enlighten me, how do we take advantage of that?</p><p></p><p>There might a few exceptions but the overwhelming majority of athletes in all of the sports weré competitive at (footie, rugby, basketball, women's hockey, men's hockey and tennis), 99% of them were born and raised here. And of the 1%, 99% was because their parents happened to be working abroad when they were born. (Higuain, Cancelliere, Tati Martin, etc).</p><p>Sorry for the probably disproportionate response to your comment but this is important to us. We take bloody pride in this. When we see Argentines playing for France(trezeguet), Italy(camoranesi, parisse, dominguez) Peru(quiroga), Spain (pernia), Chile, Paraguay, Australia (Noriega) etc we smile, we take pride because with think "we dont do that" (at least not often). We see the same in brazil and we respect it. It's a rare trait these days.</p><p></p><p>/end rant</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cruz_del_Sur, post: 923433, member: 55747"] That is such an unfair statement and one that you obviously can't back up. The closest proxy we have is what's being done in other sports. Please, enlighten me, how do we take advantage of that? There might a few exceptions but the overwhelming majority of athletes in all of the sports weré competitive at (footie, rugby, basketball, women's hockey, men's hockey and tennis), 99% of them were born and raised here. And of the 1%, 99% was because their parents happened to be working abroad when they were born. (Higuain, Cancelliere, Tati Martin, etc). Sorry for the probably disproportionate response to your comment but this is important to us. We take bloody pride in this. When we see Argentines playing for France(trezeguet), Italy(camoranesi, parisse, dominguez) Peru(quiroga), Spain (pernia), Chile, Paraguay, Australia (Noriega) etc we smile, we take pride because with think "we dont do that" (at least not often). We see the same in brazil and we respect it. It's a rare trait these days. /end rant [/QUOTE]
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