Soccer: Not a Sport Germanics Are Best at

[Wodens Day]

I have my own opinions about Soccer. I have never liked it. I can't help noticing in Britain, football is far more popular among the celtic and Briton population - those descended from medeterranian tribes. When you look at the world cup winners the list consists mostly of Latin and Latin American teams - Italy, Brazil, Argentina and Uraguay. England has a notoriously bad football team.

My own opinion is that football is all about being crafty (hinterhältig), like basketball, which is why the latin world excels at it.

Germanic sports are things like rowing, tennis and athletics and of course the winter sports more than soccer.

[BritishWitch]

I can't help noticing in Britain, football is far more popular among the celtic and Briton population - those descended from medeterranian tribes.

An incredibly bad assumption but the Welsh and the Irish much prefer rugby, hurling, Gaelic football and other traditional sports before football even comes close.
The Scottish and English were the worlds best for many years but have failed to compete with the same levels as the rest of the world because of our respective FA's inability to ground the roots of football to bed.

My own opinion is that football is all about being crafty (hinterhältig), like basketball, which is why the latin world excels at it.

Nonsense. It's about skill, determination and teamwork. All good Germanic traits.

Germanic sports are things like rowing, tennis and athletics and of course the winter sports more than soccer.

Rowing I can agree with but the rest is nonsense. Tennis is the haven for swarthy half-caste eastern Europeans and athletics is the sport of niggers.

[Stormraaf]

In South Africa soccer belongs wholly to black culture. It's as popular amongst blacks as it is completely disregarded as a sport viable to pursue professionally amongst Germanics.

I don't know where this division of the sports come from, historically. My guess is, since rugby were (and are) so popular amongst SA whites, blacks wanted their own sport to "counter" the white man's cultural ties to rugby.

Soccer is not even practiced in Afrikaner schools.

[Hauke Haien]

FIFA World Cup

1930: #3 USA
1934: #3 Germany, #4 Austria
1938: #4 Sweden
1950: #3 Sweden
1954: #1 Germany, #3 Austria
1958: #2 Sweden
1966: #1 England, #2 Germany
1970: #3 Germany
1974: #1 Germany, #2 Netherlands
1978: #2 Netherlands
1982: #2 Germany
1986: #2 Germany
1990: #1 Germany, #4 England
1994: #3 Sweden
1998: #4 Netherlands
2002: #2 Germany
2006: #3 Germany


UEFA Euro Cup

1960: NONE
1964: #4 Denmark
1968: #3 England
1972: #1 Germany
1976: #2 Germany, #3 Netherlands
1980: #1 Germany
--- no further third place matches ---
1984: #3 Denmark
1988: #1 Netherlands, #3 Germany
1992: #1 Denmark, #2 Germany, #3 Netherlands and Sweden (all-Germanic from the semi-finals on!)
1996: #1 Germany, #3 England
2000: #3 Netherlands
2004: #3 Netherlands
2008: #2 Germany

[Fred]

Football, or Soccer favors certain race depending on the position.

Wingers are more gracile than axial players.

Have you ever heard of a black creative playmaker? They are, most of the time, mediteranean (Scifo, Platini, Zidane, Totti, Pirlo, Nasri, Fabregas, Xavi...). It's all about quick-wit IMO. Even in the very sub-saharan African french team, they struggle do find a good playmaker, and they are most of the time Moroccan or Algerian.

Like my old friend told me "the french team is ten black bouncers protecting a smart Arab" (he told me the same about Werder Bremen: 10 nazi guards protecting a brazilian )

Germanic are good in positions requiring hard works and athletic qualities.

[Rassenhygieniker]

Do Germanic even enjoy Soccer?

I know Meds (french for example) just looooove soccer... That “their team” is collectively of nonwhite elements doesn't seem to bother them much either.

Personally I never understood the infatuation these people had for this silly running-after-a-ball game.

[Svartljos]

Do Germanic even enjoy Soccer?

I know Meds (french for example) just looooove soccer... That “their team” is collectively of nonwhite elements doesn't seem to bother them much either.

Personally I never understood the infatuation these people had for this silly running-after-a-ball game.

Most Germanic countries don't have a lot of people who enjoy watching or taking part in football, especially England, the Netherlands, and Germany. It's especially not a big deal when one of these countries wins or does well in a major tournament.

[Wulfram]

Personally I never understood the infatuation these people had for this silly running-after-a-ball game.

Most people infatuated with soccer are born into families that were equally so. I will use myself for an example, but using American football in place of soccer.
My family, which includes all the aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents (when they were alive), are all die-hard Dallas Cowboy's football fans. There is a photograph of me barely three weeks old and I am wearing a Cowboy's t-shirt. It is as much of a family tradition as enjoying the competetion itself.

Yes, there have been a few times when I suddenly asked myself out of the blue "What's the real appeal here?". But talk like this is boring. If it is a "silly" sport then so be it. I still enjoy this game every bit as much as when I was a kid. The same holds true for devoted soccer fans.

Even though I watch soccer on occasion I still have a difficult time enjoying it the way I do American football. A friend of mine suggested that I actually attend a major game, especially if it is in Europe. He said I would become an instant fan. I hope to do this one day.

[Hauke Haien]

[Waldstein]

From a purely artistic point of view, Maradona was the best football player ever. Maybe Messi will be his worthy successor.

Maradona had an inborn talent a player with non-mediterranean race-admixture will rarely, if ever, be endowed with: It's this flair for pure artistry paired with cockiness, sometimes close to irregularity (the "hand of god"), that made him unique. It's no accident that the best football player the British Isles ever produced, George Best (nomen est omen), was apparently of predominantely mediterranid race. It seems that the outward vivacity of the mediterranean seems to abet general football ability. In contrast the nordid man is mostly of a much too contemplative nature to be a match in a game that requires quick-wittedness often close to unscrupulousness in the first place. It's this combination which makes nations with a high percentage of mediterranid-dinarid individuals (e.g. Italy, Croatia, Serbia) very competitive in football: In addition, the dinarid element contributes also physical presence of quite an impressive nature.

Players of mainly nordid race may still excel in football, not by their technical talent but by their mental (fighting-spirit, coolness, tactics), physical or special technical qualities limited to certain aspects of the game (e.g. David Beckham was notorious mostly for his cross- and free kick-abilities). However, it is not excluded that a proper nordid will once become a complete footballer comparable to Maradona or Pélé. As Schopenhauer put it, the mediterranean man is generally of higher endowment than the northerner, but if such a northerner happens to be highly skilled, he will be at a level no mediterranean can ever reach. This is maybe still a bit exaggerated, however cum grano salis true, even for a sport like football which favours the vivid practitioner rather than the philosopher. For the latter, chess, the position of quarterback in American Football and probably even handball are better options.

Thinking about the subject, there is another point worth considering. "Germanics" mostly are of quite a tall stature, and a shorter stature favours agility and stability, especially important for dribblings and quick action when the player has the ball.