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Slimebeast on 26 June 2016
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Goatseye said:
Slimebeast said:

With the French team, yes, because they always end up with this "foreign legion" they should have a rule that you have to be born in France.

I think there are some national teams in the world that still follow that rule.

How can citizens be "foreign"? Explain that.

Could you stop with the rhetorics?

I just told you that France should have a rule that you have to be born in France. Citizenship is just a stamp on a paper.

Even the guys who are born in France but who's parents are immigrants, I don't see them as French. Maybe in a couple of generations their offspring will bee French, but now they aren't.

Xhaka in the Swiss team said he would refuse to score a goal against Albania. "I feel completely Albanian". Even though he was born in Switzerland. And it's similar with many other immigrants and their children, it takes a long time before they feel like they become nationals of their new country.

So foreign legion is a perfect term (unfortunately I think it was Marien LePen who coined it).