Thursday, 10 October 2013

Represent Your Culture And Your Roots Not Where You Live

It's like we as people, many sports personality and even footballers don't want to represent where we are originally from and betray our roots. This is what Adnan Januzaj would be doing if he chooses to plays for the three lions, the guy is Belgian who has Kosavan decent and is not even a hint of English so why should he be playing for England? Just because you have an English passport doesn't mean you have the right to represent, this seems harsh but I'm a proud Nigerian whose lived in this country my whole life and a proud British citizen that grew up in this great city of London but if I'm an up and coming professional then my dreams would be to represent Nigeria because I'M NIGERIAN, I was brought up the Nigerian way, followed the Nigerian culture so I'm not English. This is the problem with sport and mainly football there's a big difference from being from somewhere and having naturalization in the country of where you work or where you was born. Plus if Januzaj was to represent England there would be darker times for this nation then there already is. They would be sending out a message that as long as your good and you have an English passport your good enough to play for the squad and neglecting the players that were born and raised here and have more of a right to represent. We've had many cases of players from different countries who represented the nations they grew up in like Senna who played for Spain, Eduardo who plays for Croatia and Zaha who plays for the England under 21's, Mo Farah, and even Kevin Peterson who had no right in attacking Jackie Boy whose points were spot on this week. In my opinion I agree with Jackie boy's comments only English players and the English should be playing for England I don't see the top nations like Brazil, Italy or even Spain recruiting people of another decent to represent their nations only on a few exceptions. People say that because they (sports people) have a British passport they should represent Britain, but I disagree you should represent the nation of your roots and your ancestors plus the culture you was brought up in.   

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