But I know one thing for sure: it's not because they are full of immigrants. The popular theory which says Germany wouldn't be so great without it's foreigner-origined players is a utterly bullshit. All who like football a bit, should quote Gary Lineker, former forward of Germany's archenemy, England:
"Football is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins."I won't list all the euro and world ch'ships they have won, the great players they had etc. I more like to emphasize how stupid is to judge a team because of the mixed ethnicity they have.
France. It has been like this forever, but the '98 World Champion team had just a few "true" frenchmen amongst their ranks, many of them sitting on the bench. Without googleing: E.Petit, F.Barthez, D.Deschamps, L. Blanc, oops wanted to put Yuri Djorkaeff but he really doesn't fit, does he? Ever since, at least half of their team consists black african origined players, and let's say one quarter north-african (Tunisia, Morocco etc.).
England. The cultural melting pot of Europe. You just have to walk the streets of London, and you'd be completely lost- almost every second man speaks another language than English. Lately, the national football team boosted a great number of black african players, including the since-retired E. Heskey, one of the most expensive defenders in English club football, R. Ferdinand, or the young talent, T.Walcott.
Netherlands. Nobody says a word about them although more than half of them are black, and the new-age Dutch team relied on great players such as C.Seedorf, E.Davids, or all-time Dutch national team top scorer P. Kluivert.
(Spain should be a whole separate chapter, since they don't have many other ethnicity, but the catalonian-basque issues are a unique problem in their national team.)
Portugal. Some of the biggest dribblers of the national team are black: such as Nani, or base pillar of defense Miguel, not to mention Liedson..
I could bring up a lot of other national teams with players coming from other ethnicities or nations (Ibrahimovic from Sweden, Balotelli from Italy etc.), but that'd take too much time, so let's come to a stop at our main topic:
Germany. Probably the list of foreign-origin players would be as long as England's or France's. So why are still people taking it so serious? Because of their past? Their history? Because they shouldn't field any other players than pure-blooded Germans? These old-fashioned thoughts are so shameful, especially in Europe, especially with some basic knowledge of what happened before. And still there are plenty of those who really feel it's unfair that Germany has foreigners in their national team.
What everybody forgets is that maybe Germany makes those steps for 60 years from now on to make people forget their past. And for that, they deserve no racist judging, hate speech, but respect in all possible ways.
