Why is the German National Football Team not German any more?
Vernacula asked:
There two best players, Klose and Pololski are Polish.
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There two best players, Klose and Pololski are Polish.
They also have some Africans and Turks in their team. There football team is not very represented of blonde haired, blue eyed Germans. Why?
Out of 80 million Germans – why do they have so many foreigners?
Cameron
September 30th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Lily
not all german are blonde hair and blue eyes…your confusing race with nationality….they are two completely different things
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:46 am
Kayla
Just because they don’t look German doesn’t mean they’re not German. It’s true that many of the players are not ethnically German, but most of them were born and raised in Germany. The other ones moved there as small children.
As far as I’m concerned, they’re German.
Here is a list of the players you’re talking about. I put their ethnicities in parentheses. If there is a dash, the mother’s ethnicity is listed first and the father’s ethnicity is listed second.
Podolski (Polish) – moved to Germany when as a two-year-old
Klose (Polish-German) – moved to Germany as a seven-year-old
Jérôme Boateng (German-Ghanaian) – born and raised in Germany
Dennis Aogo (German-Nigerian) – born and raised in Germany
Serdar Tasci (Turkish) – born and raised in Germany
Sami Khedira (German-Tunisian) – born and raised in Germany
Marko Marin (Bosnian) – moved to Germany as a two-year-old. His family fled from Bosnia in order to escape the war in the Balkans.
Mesut Özil (Turkish) – born and raised in Germany
Piotr Trochowski (Polish) – moved to Germany as a five-year-old
Mario Gomez (German-Spanish) – born and raised in Germany
Cacau is the only exception. He lived in Brazil for most of his life, but currently resides in Germany and became a citizen last year. His mother told reporters that he’s a German at heart, and said, Germany took him in her arms and gave him everything. He often speaks of being adopted by Germany.
The New York Times wrote:
There seems to be a new, vibrant, powerful Germany: a side whose players are too young to fear defeat and whose diverse ethnic backgrounds are a testimony to the society now forming in that country.