European football is turning black and African football is turning white. Has the national football team learned its lesson?

Next summer, the four-year World Cup will come. Now, as the preliminaries draw to a close, 32 tickets for the World Cup finals will be gradually determined. Interestingly, many people have found a phenomenon in the teams that have been confirmed to enter the World Cup finals: many European countries, which used to be dominated by whites, are dominated by "ethnic minorities" such as blacks; On the contrary, in Africa, where blacks live in large numbers, three of the five expenditure lines are occupied by white countries in North Africa. As a result, some people joked that this World Cup will be the darkest in Europe and the whitest in Africa.

In fact, this phenomenon is not accidental. The evolution and development of football in Europe and North Africa have their own experiences and characteristics. In these experiences and characteristics, a considerable part is what we care about and pay attention to in China football.

On the one hand, in fact, the gradual "blackening" of European football is not as simple as many people think by introducing football immigrants. In recent years, a large number of non-white faces have appeared in many football powers in Europe. These players do come from outside Europe, but objectively speaking, most of them can't be labeled as "football immigrants".

Speaking of the most obvious blackened teams in European football, France, England and Belgium are inevitable. In the French team, Bogba, Mbappé, Dembele and Kantor are all French and African players, while in Belgium, there are also foreign players such as Lu Kaku, Ba Shuai and Fellaini. Similarly, the English youth teams at all levels that have shined in various competitions this year are mostly black players. However, although these players don't quite conform to the traditional impression that Europe is dominated by whites, they are all born and raised in Europe. As descendants of immigrants, it may be more appropriate to use the word "ethnic minorities" to summarize.

Although China's football can't be developed by using the resources of immigrants and their descendants, it can learn from strong European teams such as France and Britain in youth training and the integration of minority players. In the development of football in China, ethnic minority players have made a lot of contributions, and ethnic minority players such as Gao Zhongxun, Gao Hongbo, Zhang and Mai Tijiang are also talked about by fans. But relatively speaking, the success of these players is more like a "case", and the overall development of minority football has not yet appeared. There is no doubt that minority football has great potential: Xinjiang won the national U 17 championship in 20 15; Last year's Silk Road International Youth Invitational Tournament, Xinjiang U 17 team also defeated Spain U 17 team and National Youth U 17 team in succession; In this year's National Games, Xinjiang U 18 men's soccer team also won the third place, with good strength. Then, how can we successfully make these young minority players grow from "embryonic seedlings" to useful pillars of the national team?