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Originally Posted by yveseluj
What's wild about this Gold Cup winning squad is just how white they are compared to our current team.
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Yeah. I played in North York and Brampton, starting around 1986. Vast majority of my teammates were white right up until I stopped organized soccer circa 1999, when I finished highschool.
I moved to Brampton in 1988. I'm not sure when Brampton was no longer majority white, but you had NT members like Ian Hume and Paul Stalteri from Brampton who were reflective of the city at the time.
I can't pinpoint when the immigrant population really took off in the GTA and other places where our current players come from, but these guys are the product of that. But I'm sure there's a cyclical degree to it and the composition will revert back and forth over time, but surely won't look like 1986 or 2000.
The pic above I posted of England shows one black guy and two half black guys. Their current starting XI has probably on average of four to five. France of course has been white minority for about two decades now. Netherlands is probably five or six minority? Belgium is close to that ratio as well, but that's more recent. A similar trajectory to Canada I suppose.