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[–]Mr_Tee 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I was very passionate about football, but I've been getting older and my passion sunk. Still play football. Yeah, football was local, Arsenal was a team for factory workers etc. You know Athletic Bilbao? They have a policy "only people born in the basque/basque blood are allowed to play".

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Arsenal is the worst I've seen of this, their starting 11 are usually majority non-English nationality and aren't they the first English team who played a full line up with not a single English player. Ye, I heard about Athletic Bilbao which is pretty good actually but I thought they lifted that rule.

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I really like Bilbao's policy. Also Barcelona, at least in philosophy though they've been bad at it lately, does try to promote players through their own academy and is a Catalunyan club tied to a region however pozzed the region is. I respect that.