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Thats my point. They sacrifice their entire life just to play in a second league in France. Meanwhile players like PAG and Ashkan ignore playing in the top division in Europe and go for Arab money. By the way if you did not realize, just a few days ago, Algeria signed a contract with Adidas as their sponsor. Their previous sponsor was Puma. I dont know whether I'm supposed to cry or laugh at IFF.Quote:
Originally Posted by 04041374
Algerian immigration has nothing to do with football. Many North African Arabs, especially Algerians moved to France in the 1960s due to political reasons. These players, that are playing in European leagues are 2nd generation Algerian immigrants, who went through the French system, became professional players and decided to play for Algeria. There are also many Arabs who play for France (Zidane, Benzemna, Nasri, Brahimi). This is the result of immigration.Quote:
Originally Posted by persian_cheetah
Tukrey NT also included many 2nd generation immigrants: There are lots of Turks in Germany, whose 2nd generation immigrants, went through the German system and some of them decided to play for Turkey (Sahin, Altintop brothers, Yunus Malli, Bastürk etc.)
Algeria is a good team, they had an amazing run at the last World Cup taking champions Germany to the full 120 minutes before getting beaten. If we would play them, I expect a hard time.Quote:
Originally Posted by persian_cheetah
Damn 0404, back at it again with the facts
Algerians in France and moroccans in Holland, get that EU passport and it's much easier for them to play in europe
Right now, 5 of our main players play in QSL.
About the shirts sponsor, I am a huge fan of nike. But nike and adidas shirts use the very same template for all their NT, just the colors change. Small sponsors are doing better design now.
About Algeria, they are using perfectly their french national that join their NT. Their french players were trained in European clubs and can move easily accross Europe. Someone spoke about their performance against Germany but Iran performance against Argentina wasn't that bad either. Yet we didn't have the same opportunity. Before the WC14 I was sure we could perform well against them but now the gap is big. I hate them but have to recognize they use all the tools were efficiently (something Morocco didn't do yet).
About Iran, we have too many IPL/QSL players in our NT to hope something serious in WC (I mean something more than a one shot like against Argentina, Mexico and Yugoslavia). And very few of them seems capable be a star player in Europe.
Last thing, we can notice most of world powerhouses level are decreasing : England, Italy, Brazil, Holland, France, Portugal. Even Germany isn't as impressive than before. There is space for new countries (Belgium, Colombia, Algeria are filling the blank).
Brahimi certainly doesn't play for France mate, only played for the youthsQuote:
Originally Posted by 04041374
Oops my bad. Well we can mention Fekir and Ben Arfa as French NT players instead of him :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Z Joon
Yes especially Fekir all Algerians got really mad at him when he accepted his first call-up (in fact understandably so).Quote:
Originally Posted by 04041374
They don't need him anyways he's a poor man's Feghouli or Brahimi right now ;) no need to even mention Mahrez of course
Don't forget Ozil and Gundogan, Turks in the German national team.