[World Cup 2018] Europe’s National Teams by Racial Ancestry

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Inspired by comments made on the Steve Sailer blog on the World Cup in June 2018

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The World Cup, Europe’s National Teams, & the Race Question

Europe was given 14 slots in the 32-team FIFA World Cup in (mid-June to mid-July) 2018. The 23-man rosters (squads) were announced in early June 2018.

As many have noticed, some of Europe’s national teams are more “national” than others.

I’ve taken a quite detailed looked at the ethnocultural origins for all the players on all fourteen of Europe’s national teams (322 players). From material available online. Ethno-cultural analysis for players is, in some cases, just one line and in others up to hundreds of words for exceptionally exotic cases. Each country’s racial-political situation is briefly commented upon in each post’s Analysis section and how it relate to that country’s team’s racial makeup. (France is the stand-out, with its majority-Black team; full-Whites are one-quarter of the team.)

This post will be a grand summary of each team’s racial ancestry, taken one at a time. See individual links for more information on any team or player. See the bottom for some brief comments on the relevance of this effort.

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In Brief

Racial ancestry of each World Cup team

— Belgium: 70% White, 22% Black, 17% Muslim
— Croatia: 100% White, no Muslims
— Denmark: 90% White, 10% Black
— England: 63% White, 37% Black, No Muslims
— France: 33% White, 52% Black, 33% Muslim
— Germany: 83% White, <7% Black, 11% Muslim
— Iceland: 100% White, 98% Icelandic
— Poland: 100% White, disproportionately from western Poland
— Portugal: 77% White, heavy African-colonial presence with 20% Black
— Russia: 84% White, 16% from Soviet periphery (Central Asia, Caucuses)
— Serbia: 94% White, 4% Muslim, 4% Gypsy[?]
— Spain: 92% White, <6% Black, No Muslims
— Switzerland: 70% White, but only 44% White-Christian
— Sweden: 91% White, <5% Black, No Muslims

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In Summary

Racial ancestry for each of Europe’s World Cup 2018 teams (see links for details)

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Belgium

Racial stock of Belgium’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 70% European ancestry [16.0/23.0],
—– of which, fourteen players (61%) are fully White-European
—– of which, thirteen (57%) are fully White-Christian
— 22% Subsaharan African ancestry [5.0/23.0]
— 9% North African ancestry [2.0/23.0]

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Croatia

Racial stock of Croatia’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 100% European ancestry [23.0/23.0],
—– of which, the majority element is Dinarid/Alpinid with substantial Mediterranean and Nordid/Cro-Magnid components
— 0% Subsaharan African and all other racial ancestries [0/23.0]

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Denmark

Racial stock of Denmark’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 90% European ancestry [20.75/23.0], of which almost all is of Danish origin
—– of which nineteen players (83%) are fully White-European;
— 10% Black Subsaharan-African ancestry [2.25/23.0], mainly (1.5) East African;
— No Muslims, though two of the mixed-race players do have African-Muslim fathers

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England

Racial stock of England’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 63% European ancestry [14.5/23.0],
—– of which eleven players (48%) are fully White-European
— 37% Black-Subsaharan African ancestry [8.5/23.0],
—– five full-Black players (three of which are Forwards),
—– seven players of partial-Black, mixed-race ancestry
— 0% Muslim and Other ancestry [0/23.0]; of the players with West African ancestry, none have clear evidence of Muslim heritage, and no players identify as Muslims

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France

Racial stock of France’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 33% White-European ancestry [7.6/23.0]
—– of which six players (26%) are fully White-European;
— 52% Subsaharan African ancestry [11.9/23.0], origins across Francophone Africa
— 11% North African ancestry [2.5/23.0], all from Algeria and Morocco
— 4% Southeast Asian ancestry [1.0/23.0], from the Philippines

— Seven Muslims (30%) (7.5, 33%, if counting Mbappe, a half-Muslim of unclear affiliation, as 0.5); Muslim players outnumber fully-White-Christian players (six players) on France 2018.

France national team’s White ancestry
— 23% French ancestry for the entire team
— 9% Other ‘Latin’ countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy)
— 1%+ Germany [Griezmann]

Note: Taking the six full-White players only, French ancestry is 62.5% of these six. The French-ancestral component among the full-White players comprises only 16% of the French ‘national’ team (62.5%*[6/23]).

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Germany

Racial stock of Germany’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 82.5% European ancestry [19.0/23.0],
—– of which 18 players (78%) are fully White-European; generally this ancestry is all either from Germany or from compatible, close neighbors (unlike, notably, the Swiss team which has many recent-Albanian-origin players)
— 6.5% Subsaharan African ancestry [1.5/23.0]
— 11% Muslim ancestry [2.5/23.0], of which two Turks with strong cultural ties to Turkey and one half-Tunisian

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Iceland

Racial stock of Iceland’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 100% European ancestry [23.0/23.0 players]
—– 98% Icelandic ancestry [22.5/23.0]
—– 2% Danish ancestry [0.5/23.0]
—– by racial-anthropology: est. 55% Nordid, 40% Cro-Magnid stock

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Poland

Racial stock of Poland’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 100% European ancestry [23.0/23.0],
—– of which 95%+ Polish ancestry; minor known non-Polish ancestry includes German and Southern European
—– Players disproportionately from western Poland

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Portugal

Racial stock of Portugal’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 77% European ancestry [17.7/23.0],
—– of which thirteen players (56.5%) are fully White-European;
— 20% Subsaharan African ancestry [4.7/23.0],
— 3% Miscellaneous ancestry including Amerindian and Gypsy [0.6/23.0]

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Russia

Racial stock of Russia’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 84% European ancestry [19.5/23.0],
—– of which seventeen players (74%) are fully White-European;
— 11% Middle Eastern ancestry [2.5/23.0], Ossetian and Azeri;
— 5% Central Asian ancestry [1.2/23.0], various incl. Chuvash, Tatar

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Serbia

Racial stock of Serbia’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 94% European ancestry [21.5/23.0], Dinaric/Pontid-Mediterranean predominant
— 4% Gypsy ancestry [1.0/23.0]
— 2% Miscellaneous (possible minor component in several players) [0.5?/23.0]
— One Muslim player (Adem Ljajic); all others appear to be Christians, all or almost all of whom Orthodox.

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Spain

Racial stock of Spain’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 92% European ancestry [21.15/23.0]
—– of which, nineteen players [83%] are fully White-European
— 5.5% Subsaharan African ancestry [1.25/23.0]
— 2% East Asian ancestry [0.5/23.0]
— 0.5% North African ancestry [0.1/23.0]

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Switzerland

Racial stock of Switzerland’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 70% European ancestry [16.0/23.0],
—– of which fifteen players (65%) are fully White-European,
——– of which five [22%] are of Balkan-Muslim ancestry [5.0/23.0],
——– of which ten [44%] are full-White-Christians [10.0/23.0].
— 28% Subsaharan African ancestry [6.5/23.0]
— 2% Amerindian ancestry [0.5/23.0]

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Sweden

Racial stock of Sweden’s 2018 World Cup team:
— 91% European ancestry [21.0/23.0],
—– of which twenty players (87%) are fully White-European;
— 4.5% Middle Eastern ancestry [1.0/23.0];
— 4.5% Subsaharan African ancestry [1.0/23.0]

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Brief Comments:

There are some surprises here. The absence of Muslims may be one. I comment on this at more length in the post on Sweden’s almost-all-White, Muslim-less team. Sweden, sadly, has serious race-political problems and could plausibly have an Islamic majority the middle of this century (hopefully not). Yet watching this marquee quasi-patriotic event, there’s no sign of Muslims, and almost no sign of non-Europeans at all, on the national team…

At the beginning of this project, I speculated that the less-White teams would inevitably lose support, over time, among White Europeans, perhaps softening their interest in this particular competition in general, or perhaps shifting their support (maybe quietly) to one or more “Whiter” teams. I have no way of finding evidence for that one way or another, but I would like to repeat the proposal of such as an idea.

The biggest single lesson of this study is something that ought to be obvious but somehow is not to many. It is simply this: Immigration has consequences.

Quite a few Western people genuinely do not seem to — understand? believe? — that immigration does, in fact, have consequences; average people, decent people, rather, genuinely seem to believe something like this: “[Our Nation] will always exist as it always has, no matter the number of refugees/immigrants we take in. They are not a threat!” This is puzzling thinking, but seems predominant. As cold-water on the face wakes a man mentally sluggish with sleep, so might a glance at the France or England World Cup rosters…. Immigration has consequences.

(See the individual country posts for more commentary on the racial-political situations specific to those countries and how the World Cup ties in.)

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A tweet to end on:

England: 48% of team roster is full-White, dropping to 40% for field players (non-goalkeepers) (8 Whites of 20 on roster).

What would the man waiting to be evacuated back to England from Dunkirk have thought in 1940?https://t.co/T30nrTCjMa pic.twitter.com/p8KY83StAI

— Hail (@Hail__To_You) July 7, 2018

England: 48% of team roster is full-White, dropping to 40% for field players (non-goalkeepers) (8 Whites of 20 on roster).

What would the man waiting to be evacuated back to England from Dunkirk have thought in 1940?