German National Team Not Aryan Enough For Butthurt Fabio Capello

[jenny_jenkins]

German National Team Not Aryan Enough For Butthurt Fabio Capello

(You know - that Italian manager who represents England).

Capello calls on Platini to act after swipe at Germans for ‘stealing talent’
By Matt Barlow (dailymail.co.uk)

Comments

[sumrndmgrl]

maybe it makes me satan in training but i somewhat get what he means. most players that are eligible for more than 1 team tend to pick the "larger" team or more successful team, competition-wise. but pointing the finger at germany means pointing it at several other teams with players in the same situation. besides, if his strife is clubs throwing money at young players, the corruption of those tactics can be found at club level as well as international

[louis_quatorze]

except the Germany-Turkey situation doesn't follow that, because from what I remember before Özil nearly every Turkish-German player opted for Turkey, and many still do (Nuri Sahin, anyone?). plus, he's being super hypocritical when you consider Wellbeck's situation, which he says is OK because he talked to their parents. I guess no one talked to Özil's parents? Of all the players eligible for another country in the German squad, all but Cacau grew up in Germany, has a German parent, etc. Where do you "draw the line"? Can a kid growing up in a country never represent it if his parents are from somewhere else?

Capello is just incoherent, honestly.

[sumrndmgrl]

yeah, he made it seem like ozil's parents are mad or something. from the ages listed of podolski and klose, i would certainly consider a child growing up in a country as them identifying with it in some way. i think that has more rank over just the birthplace of the parents. hell, the parents themselves might not even identify with where they were born.

actually now that you bring up Nuri, that reminds me of an article i read awhile back where they praised him pretty much for picking turkey over germany and that it shows more "pride" and ~humility than picking the obvious big ticket name of germany. a discussion with a friend years ago i remember they said that in their opinion if cristiano could pick another NT, one that performed better competitively, that he would've. it was an... interesting... debate lol

[jenny_jenkins]

It's not up to the parents though. It's up to the individual players.

Parents should have nothing to do with a decision like this.

[blackjedii]

also did LJ just screen my comment? o.o

[blackjedii]

oh geez sorry did I just delete someone else's? Reallyreally sorry...

[everyforever]

Capello denied England had stolen Danny Welbeck, who qualified for Ghana, saying: ‘He was born and brought up in England. I spoke to his family and they were fine.’

so, all of the german-turks/etc's families were NOT "fine" with it? they're all really pissed off they're not playing for other countries?

this is silly. sorry your team isn't as good as germany's, fabio.

[everyforever]

btw, you're italian.

[elizaberglund]

And if german-turk/ect player family was not ok with this but he still wanted to play for Germany he should not be allowed? ... this is just redicolous. Noone stole Welbeck, Ozil or Podolski. They had a choise, they made it, the end of story and it is not Capellos job to question it. He didn;t loose to Germany because of some strange narionality coruption law or whatever, he lost because Germany was better. He is just being redicolous now.

[jenny_jenkins]

Too true - the boys on our team - the German boys on our team - were just better than his.

[blackjedii]

[sumrndmgrl]

i think having multinational players is awesome! creates diversity both in the lockerroom and on the field in terms of tactics. i know there are some people though that are more into a specific style in terms of nationality. like playing "german" or playing "like traditional england" or something so i think they are wary of ~their team having majority multinational members. of course i don't agree with this ~pure race~ mentality at all but i've come across it before with older fans of the sport.

[everyforever]

Besides - you know what else Germany is doing? Taking far too many DORKS.

dorks?! who, us?!

[blackjedii]

girl there is a very limited amount of dork in the world.

You, sirs, are hogging it all!

And what if you spread it like a virus so that future players are dorks too

[mentalblockade]

he doesn't sound like it but he was born in germany and i believe his parents were too.

[jenny_jenkins]

No. His father was born in Turkey and moved to Germany when he was two years old when his father (Mesut's grandfather) came over to work in a metals mine in the Ruhr.

[effingusernames]

so he has every right and reason to play for Germany :3
icon so cute. ugh. why so cute ;_;