France

Martinique:
*Thierry Henry (Father from Guadeloupe)
*Eric Abidal
*Nikolas Anelka
*Gael Clichy

Algeria
*Zinedine Zidane
*Samir Nasri
*Karim Benzama

Guadeloupe :
*Lilian Thurum
*Willem Gallas
*Silvain Wiltord
*Mikhael Silvestre
*Louis Saha
*Pascal Chimbonda
*Philipe Christinval

Republic of Congo
*Claude Makelele
*Steve Mandana

Senegal :
*Patrick Viera
*Bacary Sagna
*Patrice Evra
*Bafetimbi Gomis


Mali
*Alou Diarra
*Lassana Diarra
*Jean Tigana

"Spanish"
*Raymond Domonech (Catalan)
*Bixente Lizarazu (Basque)
*Robert Pires (Half Spanish half Portuguese)
*Eric Cantona (Catalan and Sardinian)

Ivory Coast
*Djibrel Cisse
*Abou Diaby

Ethic Briton
*Yoann Gourcuff

Cameroon
*Jean-Alain Boumsong

Benin
*Sidney Govou

French Guinea
*Florent Malouda

Ghana
*Marcel Desailly

Indian
*Vikhash Dhorasoo (Ethnic Indian from Mauritius)

Argentinian
*David Trezeguet (Although still ethnically French)

Italian
*Michel Platini

Armenian
*Alain Boghossian

New Caledonia
*Chrisitan Karembeu

 

France

Martinique:
*Thierry Henry (Father from Guadeloupe)
*Eric Abidal
*Nikolas Anelka
*Gael Clichy

Martinique is a part of the French Republic. So is Guadaloupe.

 

I could probably almost double that list. The French team is unique in that sense.

 

Add more if you like. I just tried to include the more popular players. Ill add Holland, Belgium, Serbia, Croatia, Australia, Bosnia, etc all after.

 

I remember making a thread about this a while back..

Abbas Suan, an ethnic Arab, used to play for Israel. Don't know if he still does.

 

France continued...

This is just from final squads since Euro 92 let's say, if you were to take players called up or ones who had a few caps the list would be huge.

Martini (Italian)
Amoros (Valencian/Spanish)
Silvestre (Guadeloupean)
Casoni (Corsican/Italian)
Deschamps (Basque/Spanish)
Fernandez (Andalusian/Spanish)
Perez (Spanish)
Boli (Ivorian)
Vahirua (Tahitian)
Angloma (Guadeloupean)

Lama (French Guianan)
Djorkaeff (Armenian)
Lamouchi (Tunisian)
Pedros (Portuguese)
Martins (Portuguese)
Madar (Jewish)
Loko ?

Candela (Spanish)
Guivarc'h (Breton)
Diomede (Guadeloupean)

Dacourt ?
Marlet ?

Others...

Ba (Senegalese)
N'Gotty (Cameroonian)
Keller (German)
Camara (Mali)
Robert (Reunionnais)
Kapo (Ivorian)
Dabo (Senegalese)

 

Candela (Spanish)

The surname is definitely Italian. Maybe he has Spanish roots too.

 

Have any Monegasques played for France? What about Alsaceans?

 

Plenty would have, Strasbourg was a regular in the top flight and had an excellent side in late 70s.

RCS does not have an official hall of fame or an all-time XI. Various selections have been made by press and supporters but none has achieved universal respect. 21 players have been capped for France while playing for Strasbourg. The most notable one is Oscar Heisserer who played a record 18 times with the national team while at Strasbourg and was the first Alsatian and first and only RCS player to wear the armband for France. Dominique Dropsy, Léonard Specht and Gérard Hausser also earned more than 10 caps while Marc Molitor is one of the rare examples of a player being capped for the national team while playing in the Division 2. Unsurprinsgly, it is during the 1978–1979 title season that Racing had the most players included in the national squad. On 7 October 1978 were a record four RCS players (Dominique Dropsy, Roger Jouve, Francis Piasecki, Albert Gemmrich) on the field for a Euro 1980 qualifying game against Luxembourg. This figure was repeated a month later for a friendly against Spain (Dropsy, Piasecki, Gemmrich and Léonard Specht). Frank Leboeuf and Marc Keller were the last RCS players to earn a cap during the 1995–1996 season. Leboeuf is one of the two former RCS in the French team that won World Cup 1998, the other one being Youri Djorkaeff. The last player once at Strasbourg to play for France is Olivier Dacourt while Richard Dutruel is the last international to play for RCS (both in 2004).

With regional feelings still strong in Alsace, the performances of local players logically attract special attention. Seven out of the ten players with the most apparitions for Racing are from Alsace: René Hauss (who holds the record), Léonard Specht, René Deutschmann, Edmond Haan, Gérard Hausser, Jean Schuth and Raymond Kaelbel. Since 1979, there is also a peculiar tradition that every Racing team to win a trophy or reach a final featured a Breton as captain, manager or both. Jacky Duguépéroux captained the 1979 team and won the Coupe de la Ligue in 1997 and 2005 as a manager. The 2001 Coupe de France winning team for itself included Yvon Pouliquen as manager and Corentin Martins as captain. Pouliquen also was the captain for the 1995 final.

 

But neither Guadaloupeans nor Martiniquais form the majority of the French population. Lobo has also included Bretons, Corsicans and Basques in his list, although Brittany, Corsica and part of the Basque Country are part of France Metropole.

 

United States (since 1998)

Mexican:
Carlos Bocanegra
Herculez Gomez
Jose Francisco Torres
Jonathan Bornstein
Luis Robles
Michael Orozco
Ramiro Corrales
Nick Garcia

Brazilian:
Benny Feilhaber

Czech:
Frankie Hejduk

Ghanaian:
Fredy Adu
Tony Sanneh

Nigerian:
Oguchi Onyewu
Maurice Edu

Scottish:
Stuart Holden

Canadian:
Landon Donovan

Haitian:
Jozy Altidore

Chinese:
Brian Ching

Jamaican:
Edson Buddle
Jeff Cunningham
Robin Fraser

German:
Thomas Dooley
Juergen Sommer
Jermain Jones

Hungarian:
Tim Howard

Italian:
Santino Quaranta
Tony Meola

Argentine:
Pablo Mastroeni
Claudio Reyna
Marcelo Balboa

English:
Kenny Cooper

Serbian:
Sacha Kljestan
Preki (Predrag Radosavljevic)

Irish:
Michael Parkhurst

Polish:
Danny Szetela
Eric Lichaj
Frank Simek

Gambian:
Charlie Davies

Russian:
Chris Armas

Dutch:
Earnie Stewart
Eric Wynalda

Macedonian:
Jovan Kirovski

Colombian:
Carlos Llamosa
Alejandro Bedoya

Uruguayan:
Tab Ramos

Martiniquais:
David Regis

Greek:
Peter Vagenas
Alexi Lalas

Croatian:
Ante Razov

South African:
Roy Wegerle
John Thorrington

Filipino:
Nick Rimando

 

Hungarian:
Tim Howard

Tee hee

 

Schillaci > North Africa

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Do the Singapore NT

 

We've been a multiracial society from the get-go; that's our thing. Yeah, originally the natives of the land were Malays, but Singapore's been an ethnic melting-pot for ages.

So get off my back!

Cue: enter jani, stage left.

 

Eric Di Meco was another 'Italian'.

 

Pietro Vierchowod ----> Russian father
Giuseppe Wilson ----> English father
Fabio Liverani ----> Somali mather
Christian Manfredini ----> Ivorian, adopted by an Italian family
Mario Balotelli ----> Ghanian, adopted by an Italian family
Stefano Chuka Okaka ----> Nigerian parents
Angelo Ogbonna ----> Nigerian parents
Stephan El Shaarawi ----> Egyptian father

 

Matteo Ferrari - Algerian born, Guinean mother.
Robert Acquafresca - Polish mother

Vieri (Australia), Giorgio Chinaglia (Wales), Simone Perrotta (England), Roberto Di Matteo (Switzerland) grew up abroad.

 

Vieri (Australia), Giorgio Chinaglia (Wales), Simone Perrotta (England), Roberto Di Matteo (Switzerland) grew up abroad.

But they were all Italians.

Vieri's brother Max played for Australia.

Chinaglia and Perrotta both came back when they were very young.

That way Jeff Agoos could be considered Swiss, but his father was a diplomat posted there when he was born.

 

Matteo Ferrari is Algerian.

And Sergio Pellissier is from the minority Aostan community.

 

lol, I was doing Holland an half hour ago, but clicked on the wrong button and got it all erased. alm:

Can't be bothered to do it again, but take my word for it, a sh!tload of players from Surinam, a couple from the Antillen, Morocco, Indonesia and a Turk was what I had so far. Probably some more.

 

Which is why it's always better to compile long posts in Notepad

 

All the Dutch players that said (Paramaribo) in the Panini albums.

 

It's been noted Jefe, cheers!

And yeah Mori, I started in 88 from Gullit to Davids to De Jong. And about a zillion guys in between. Makes you wonder what they could have achieved if they all represented Surinam and how much Dutch football would have 'suffered' because of it.

 

More caps for the likes of Rene vd Gijp

 

Mexes is Roman. (0:43)

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Sweden

Half-danes:
Ibrahimovic
Henrik Larsson
Behrang Safari
Andreas Granqvist
Patrik Andersson
Martin Dahlin
Stefan Schwarz
etc etc

The cradle of civilization:
Emir Bajrami

Balkanland:
Teddy Lucic
Dusan Djuric

Finland:
Ola Toivonen

Gipsyland (according to Bulgarian TV at least, haven't been able to confirm it):
Anders Limpar

Hungary (in case Gipsyland is incorrect):
Anders Limpar

 

Sweden

Half-danes:
Ibrahimovic

wtf?

 

Serbia:

Miralem Sulejmani (Gorani, some say Albanian)
Adem Ljajic (Half Sandzaklija/Bosniak/Muslim, half Serbian)
Danijel Aleksic (Croatian father)
Igor Duljaj (Gorani)
Aleksandar Kolarov (I've heard he has Bulgarian ancestry, but I am not sure, could be Macedonian and Russian as well as just Serbian)
Antonio Rukavina (name sounds Croatian)

 

It's important for international teams to field 100% purely ethnic players who can trace their pure ethnicity back to prehistoric times with 0 impurities. Frankly, it might be a good idea to ethnically cleanse all impurities before beginning any world cup. Spain can finally realize its Castillization of the entire country and liquidate all Basques and Catalans to have a 100% pure team. Also, they'd better eliminate all Gypsies in the south too. Same goes for Italy and their southerners. Xtratime obviously has a big problem with France's melting pot of disgusting ethnic contamination, maybe you guys can all get together and elect another Hitler or Stalin to help you with that problem, they were both awesome at fixing ethnic deviance.

Or maybe all you xenophobes should just admit you are retireds.

 

In no way does this thread imply what you just said, as far as I understand that is.

 

It's important for international teams to field 100% purely ethnic players who can trace their pure ethnicity back to prehistoric times with 0 impurities. Frankly, it might be a good idea to ethnically cleanse all impurities before beginning any world cup. Spain can finally realize its Castillization of the entire country and liquidate all Basques and Catalans to have a 100% pure team. Also, they'd better eliminate all Gypsies in the south too. Same goes for Italy and their southerners. Xtratime obviously has a big problem with France's melting pot of disgusting ethnic contamination, maybe you guys can all get together and elect another Hitler or Stalin to help you with that problem, they were both awesome at fixing ethnic deviance.

Or maybe all you xenophobes should just admit you are retireds.

idiot.

Does he find it ethically wrong to be a Frenchman?

Doubt it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_people

 

Doubt it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_people

You didn't get it.

Let me repeat

"Does he find it ethically wrong to be French?"

Ah well, pointless now when it didn't stick the first time.

 

Movin on. Anything can be added to this list. Its just a fun way of seeing where some players are from in the world. What their backgrounds are. Where theyve learned their trades, what has influenced them etc etc. Players who have been adopted, lived overseas, anything can be included. Ill make another list of players from former Yugoslavia.

Serbia

*Albert Nadj (Ethnic Hungarian)
*Antonio Rukavina (Possibly Croat?)
*Adem Ljajic (Ethnic Muslim from Sandzak region of Serbia)
*Sinisa Mihajlovic (Half Croatian)
*Zdravko Kuzmanovic (Ethnic Serb born in Switzerland)
*Neven Subotic (Ethnic Serb who grew up in Germany and the United States)
*Radomir Antic (Montenegrin Heritage)
*Miralem Sulejmani (Ethnic Gorani)

Montenegro

*Predrag Mijatovic (Montenegrin-Serb)
*Fatos Beciraj (Ethnic Albanian from Serbian region of Kosovo)
*Marko Basa (Born in Serbia to an Albanian-Montenegrin father and Serbian mother)
*Mirko Vucinic (Mother is from Serbia)
*Refik Sabandzovic (Ethnic Muslim from Tuzi)

Bosnia

*Zvjezdan Misimovic (Ethnic Serb born in Germany)
*Zlatan Bajramovic (Bosnian Muslim born in Germany)
*Sasa Papac (Ethnic Croat)
*Sergej Babrarez (Half Ukrainian Half Serb)
*Miralem Pjanic (Bosnian Muslim born in France/Luxembourg)
*Haris Medunjanin (Bosnian Muslim who grew up in Holland)

Croatia

*Robert Prosinecki (Half Croatian Half Serb born in Germany)
*Ivan Klasnic (Ethnic Croat born in Germany)
*Ivan Rakitic (Ethnic Croat born in Switzerland)
*Robert and Niko Kovac (Ethnic Croats born in Germany)
*Josip Simunic (Ethnic Croat born in Australia)
*Dado Prso (Ethnic Serb)
*Bosko Balaban (Ethnic Serb)
*Milan Rapaic (Ethnic Serb)
*Dario Srna (Half Bosnian Muslim/Half Serb?)
*Luka Modric (Half Serb?)
*Eduardo (Brazilian)

Slovenia

*Zlatko Zahovic (Either Bosnian Muslim or Serb)
*Srecko Katanec (Ethnic Croat)
*Milivoje Novakovic (Ethnic Serb)
*Samir Handanovic (Born to Bosnian Muslim parents)
*Armin Bacinovic (Bosnian Muslim)
*Branko Ilic (Ethnic Serb)
*Josip Ilicic (Ethnic Croat)
*Aleksandar Radosavljevic (Ethnic Serb)
*Dalibor Stevanovic (Ethnic Serb)
*Haris Vukcic (Bosnian Muslim)
*Zlatan Ljubijankovic (Either Bosnian Muslim or Serb)
*Zlatko Dedic (Either Bosnian Muslim, Serb or Croat?)

Albanians from Serbian province of Kosovo

*Lorik Cana (Albanian playing for Albania)
*Valon Behrami (Albanian playing for Switzerland)
*Xherdan Shaqiri (Albanian playing for Switzerland)

Other players with links from Former Yugoslavia

*Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Half Bosnian Muslim Half Croat representing Sweden)
*Marko Marin (Serb representing Germany)
*Heris Seferovic (Bosnian Muslim representing Switzerland)
*Teddy Lucic (Croat representing Sweden)
*Marko Arnautovic (Half Serb representing Austria)
*Aleksandar Dragovic (Serb represnting Austria)
*Bojan Krkic (Half Serb Half Catalan representing Spain)
*Filipe Senderos (Half Serb Half Catalan representing Switzerland)

 

Bosnia

*Sergej Babrarez (Half Ukrainian Half Serb)


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Dunno where you got this from but his mother is Bosniak, dunno what his father is.

 

Germany

Turkish
*Mehmet Scholl (Half Turkish)
*Mesut Ozil (3rd Generation Turk)

Silesian Polish
*Miroslav Klose (Born to ethnic German father and Polish mother in Poland)
*Lukas Podolski (Born to ethnic Germans in Poland)

Polish
*Piotr Trchowiski
*Tim Borowski

Ghana
*Jerome Boateng (Half Ghanian)
*David Odonkor
*Gerald Asamoah

Brazilian
*Cacau
*Kevin Kuranyi (German-Hungarian father and Panamanian mother)

England
*Aron Hunt (Half English)

Lusatian Serb
*Michael Ballack

Spanish
*Mario Gomez (Half Spanish)

Tunisia
*Sami Khedira (Half Tunisian Half German born in Germany)