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UEFA Tries to Move the Goalposts Back
pictured: Michel Platini during his playing days
by Colin Liddell
The election of Frenchman Michel Platini as the new President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) in January is definitely a good thing for our race's soccer players. In recent years soccer, especially at the top level, has completely changed character. Instead of the grassroots working class sport it once was, it has become a pay-per-view TV and transfer circus that rips off the public to pay fortunes to players with unpronounceable names, and ruthless greed-driven agents.
The main struggle in European soccer, as in so many other areas, is between the globalism, represented by the big clubs that can buy players from anywhere and sell their TV rights and merchandising across the world, and the nationalism represented by the national football associations and the smaller clubs that find their talent and fans closer to home. Although UEFA's power to battle against the economic muscle of the large clubs and in particular the C-14 group may be limited, the new chief clearly has his heart in the right place.
Like his mentor Sepp Blatter, who is head of the sport's world governing body FIFA, Platini believes football should be more of a grassroots thing, with clubs and players closely connected to the fans and communities they represent. These are measures, it should be pointed out, that boost the long-term appeal of football as a healthy, living sport with high levels of local participation.
But in recent years, it's all been about the money and imports. When the Nigerian striker Aiyegbeni Yakubu was transferred from Portsmouth FC to Middlesbrough FC two summers ago in a £7.5 million move, his Israeli agent Pini Zahavi took £3 million for himself, with Portsmouth sharing their portion with the player's previous club Maccabi Haifa, to whom they had already paid £1.8 million when they bought him.
Based on the outlay of the average fans who continue to pay a fortune for tickets, merchandizing, and cable TV, European football makes billions every year, but rather than this money being used to develop young local players and provide local jobs, most of the money ends up in the pockets of a globalist clique of international owners, agents, media executives, and other hangers-on.
This problem is very noticeable here in the UK, where our highest profile clubs, like Chelsea and Manchester United, are owned by foreign tycoons like the Russian Jewish oil billionaire Roman Abramovich and American billionaire Malcolm Glazer, owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is not just a problem in the UK, but also in the rest of Europe, where ownership by globalist businessmen, agents' fees, and the importing of foreign and especially non-White players have greatly increased in recent years, and are threatening to destroy the essence of the sport. There is also the problem of so-called national teams, like that of France, which is full of players who have been granted French citizenship mainly because of their ability to play football.
Recently Georges Freche, the Socialist head of the Languedoc-Roussillon south-east regional government, was expelled from the French Socialist Party because he complained about the preponderance of African players over ethnic French players in the French national team. "I'm ashamed for this country," he reportedly said. "Soon, there will be 11 black players."
Although the Politically Correct establishment was quick to show Freche the red card for this natural and, indeed, healthy remark, Platini hasn't even got a caution for very similar remarks he made in a 2004 interview with FIFA.com.
"Is it okay that some [club] sides don't even field two players from their own country?" Platini asked. "What about those clubs that buy their players abroad? Is it okay that there are a dozen Africans playing for Beveren in Belgium? I mean, why do they still call themselves Beveren? Why do they still play in Belgium? These are questions I often ask myself."
In the same interview Platini, who is widely acknowledged to have been the greatest French player of his generation, also poured scorn on those big European clubs that open training centres in Africa.
"The European clubs who open training centres in Africa do it to further their own interests, not to help with the development of African football," he said. To Platini, such training schemes are merely another form of outsourcing, as the cost of training players in Europe is more expensive.
Since his election, Platini's proposal to reduce the maximum number of teams competing in the Champion's League from each country to three has been met with horror by Europe's big clubs, who are increasingly reliant on the high TV revenues that the competition generates. The proposal is a reflection of Platini's nationalist and anti-globalist philosophy. More significantly, he also believes in limiting the number of foreign players per team to three.
Platini's reforms, if they can be pushed through, will give the champion teams from the smaller European leagues more of a chance of competing in the Champion's League. At present many of them are forced to play knock-out games to qualify with the 3rd or 4th placed teams from the big leagues, an ordeal they seldom survive. Also, by limiting the power of big clubs to use their money to buy in the best players, smaller teams that survive by developing their own players will be more competitive. This will see less foreign and especially non-White players in a sport that is overwhelmingly supported by White audiences.
The legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly famously said, "Football is not a matter of life and death. It's more important than that." In working class European societies, like our own, it has always played a vital social role, giving youngsters a positive outlet for their energies, and communities a sense of pride and identity. Let that vision of soccer continue to guide us all.
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Any comments, especially from our European brethren, on the Colin Liddell article?
This guy Platini seems like a guy with a strong European identity.
"Is it okay that some [club] sides don't even field two players from their own country?" Platini asked. "What about those clubs that buy their players abroad? Is it okay that there are a dozen Africans playing for Beveren in Belgium? I mean, why do they still call themselves Beveren? Why do they still play in Belgium? These are questions I often ask myself."
UEFA Tries to Move the Goalposts Back
pictured: Michel Platini during his playing days
by Colin Liddell
The election of Frenchman Michel Platini as the new President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) in January is definitely a good thing for our race's soccer players. In recent years soccer, especially at the top level, has completely changed character. Instead of the grassroots working class sport it once was, it has become a pay-per-view TV and transfer circus that rips off the public to pay fortunes to players with unpronounceable names, and ruthless greed-driven agents.
The main struggle in European soccer, as in so many other areas, is between the globalism, represented by the big clubs that can buy players from anywhere and sell their TV rights and merchandising across the world, and the nationalism represented by the national football associations and the smaller clubs that find their talent and fans closer to home. Although UEFA's power to battle against the economic muscle of the large clubs and in particular the C-14 group may be limited, the new chief clearly has his heart in the right place.
Like his mentor Sepp Blatter, who is head of the sport's world governing body FIFA, Platini believes football should be more of a grassroots thing, with clubs and players closely connected to the fans and communities they represent. These are measures, it should be pointed out, that boost the long-term appeal of football as a healthy, living sport with high levels of local participation.
But in recent years, it's all been about the money and imports. When the Nigerian striker Aiyegbeni Yakubu was transferred from Portsmouth FC to Middlesbrough FC two summers ago in a £7.5 million move, his Israeli agent Pini Zahavi took £3 million for himself, with Portsmouth sharing their portion with the player's previous club Maccabi Haifa, to whom they had already paid £1.8 million when they bought him.
Based on the outlay of the average fans who continue to pay a fortune for tickets, merchandizing, and cable TV, European football makes billions every year, but rather than this money being used to develop young local players and provide local jobs, most of the money ends up in the pockets of a globalist clique of international owners, agents, media executives, and other hangers-on.
This problem is very noticeable here in the UK, where our highest profile clubs, like Chelsea and Manchester United, are owned by foreign tycoons like the Russian Jewish oil billionaire Roman Abramovich and American billionaire Malcolm Glazer, owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is not just a problem in the UK, but also in the rest of Europe, where ownership by globalist businessmen, agents' fees, and the importing of foreign and especially non-White players have greatly increased in recent years, and are threatening to destroy the essence of the sport. There is also the problem of so-called national teams, like that of France, which is full of players who have been granted French citizenship mainly because of their ability to play football.
Recently Georges Freche, the Socialist head of the Languedoc-Roussillon south-east regional government, was expelled from the French Socialist Party because he complained about the preponderance of African players over ethnic French players in the French national team. "I'm ashamed for this country," he reportedly said. "Soon, there will be 11 black players."
Although the Politically Correct establishment was quick to show Freche the red card for this natural and, indeed, healthy remark, Platini hasn't even got a caution for very similar remarks he made in a 2004 interview with FIFA.com.
"Is it okay that some [club] sides don't even field two players from their own country?" Platini asked. "What about those clubs that buy their players abroad? Is it okay that there are a dozen Africans playing for Beveren in Belgium? I mean, why do they still call themselves Beveren? Why do they still play in Belgium? These are questions I often ask myself."
In the same interview Platini, who is widely acknowledged to have been the greatest French player of his generation, also poured scorn on those big European clubs that open training centres in Africa.
"The European clubs who open training centres in Africa do it to further their own interests, not to help with the development of African football," he said. To Platini, such training schemes are merely another form of outsourcing, as the cost of training players in Europe is more expensive.
Since his election, Platini's proposal to reduce the maximum number of teams competing in the Champion's League from each country to three has been met with horror by Europe's big clubs, who are increasingly reliant on the high TV revenues that the competition generates. The proposal is a reflection of Platini's nationalist and anti-globalist philosophy. More significantly, he also believes in limiting the number of foreign players per team to three.
Platini's reforms, if they can be pushed through, will give the champion teams from the smaller European leagues more of a chance of competing in the Champion's League. At present many of them are forced to play knock-out games to qualify with the 3rd or 4th placed teams from the big leagues, an ordeal they seldom survive. Also, by limiting the power of big clubs to use their money to buy in the best players, smaller teams that survive by developing their own players will be more competitive. This will see less foreign and especially non-White players in a sport that is overwhelmingly supported by White audiences.
The legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly famously said, "Football is not a matter of life and death. It's more important than that." In working class European societies, like our own, it has always played a vital social role, giving youngsters a positive outlet for their energies, and communities a sense of pride and identity. Let that vision of soccer continue to guide us all.
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Any comments, especially from our European brethren, on the Colin Liddell article?
This guy Platini seems like a guy with a strong European identity.
"Is it okay that some [club] sides don't even field two players from their own country?" Platini asked. "What about those clubs that buy their players abroad? Is it okay that there are a dozen Africans playing for Beveren in Belgium? I mean, why do they still call themselves Beveren? Why do they still play in Belgium? These are questions I often ask myself."