Without immigrants, there would be no French football Three generations of superstars are all outsiders.

There has never been a football power like France. They have won the world championship, they have won the European championship, and they have trained the World Footballer of the Year, but almost all their excellent players are not of French origin. The history of French football is a history of immigration, and the colors of French football are colorful.

The French calendar is an immigrant country. They are the art centers of Europe, and Picasso and Van Gogh ... are willing to move to France when their art is mature. They are also the center of European exiles, and they contain almost the largest number of people from different countries with different political views. They are also a paradise for colonial immigrants. Many descendants of French colonies in North Africa, Central Africa and the Caribbean chose to emigrate to France during the great voyage. Football has become a way for these immigrants to change their destiny.

There are three generations of players in the golden generation of Fa Li, 1958, 1984, 1998. But what you can't imagine is that the best players in the three generations are descendants of immigrants. Fontaine is still the player who scored the most goals in the xx World Cup. He is a real Moroccan. Copa, who is as famous as Fontaine, later became the core of Real Madrid, and his parents came from Poland. The French team that won the European Cup in 1984 is famous for its iron triangle in midfield, but Platini is of Italian descent, and Tigana, who coached in Shanghai Shenhua this year, is Sudanese.

Among those who won the world championship in 1998, the pedigree of the French team is more complicated. According to statistics, there are 13 immigrants from different regions in the team of 22 people. Zidane is Algerian, Thuram and Henry are both from Little Andreas, which is the haunt of Captain Jack in Pirates of the Caribbean. Desailly is Ghanaian and Vieira is Senegalese. Lizarazu is Basque, Trezeguet is Argentine, and Pires' situation is more complicated. His father is Portuguese and his mother is Spanish. Cantona, the "king" who lost the World Cup, was not French either. His father is an immigrant from Sardinia and his mother is Catalan.

Too many immigrant players weaken the sense of belonging of those pure French people, and many immigrant players are more concerned about their hometown. Zidane has said many times that he always regards himself as an Algerian in his heart. Evra was even photographed rubbing against a French jersey in the warm-up match before the European Cup.

In 20 10, the French Football Association tried to adopt a plan to control the proportion of immigrant players in the youth training system. At that time, the head coach of the French team, Blanco, was a pure Frenchman, and he also agreed with the plan. But with the exposure of the media, the plan had to be suspended and Blank had to apologize.

In this European Championship, as a pure Frenchman, Blanco selected as many "French" players as possible. However, more than half of his main players still come from immigrants. Nasri and Benzema are descendants of Algerians, Lamy is from Morocco, and Evras was born in Dhaka. ...

If there were no immigrant players, there would be no French football.