14 out of the 15 players who played for France today were black (including substitutions). Edit: the match was against Croatia, not the Netherlands.
The West is overrun.
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To be fair, France is all that today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_France#/media/File:France_in_the_World_(+Antarctica_claims).svg
France used to be that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire#/media/File:France_colonial_Empire10.png
And look at the NBA, not representative of the actual US population. It is sport, coach will chose the best performers, not the most representative of a nation.
And yet countries like Argentina win World Cups without a single black player.
Also, France has players like Antoine Griezmann who's far better in his position than anyone else.
Again, like NBA, Football is sport competition, the epitome of meritocracy.
Right, like the USWNT is paid according to merit.
Many examples of merit not being the reason for including or excluding players. A striker named Karim Benzema was excluded from this French team years ago because of politics. Most would agree he was better than France's striker at the time, Olivier Giroud, though their styles are far different.
He was excluded because he was sleeping with underaged prostitutes, and involved in a blackmail scheme, which is obviously illegal.
Griezmann retired from international play in September
Players come back from retirement all the time. Courtois just rejoined Belgium. I'm sure Griezmann could be convinced.