Are there any polls or data on how ethnic French people in France feel about their French World Cup team being <20% ethnic French? Do you think most disapprove of it?

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Sports are not about representation. That part does exist in something like the world cup, and it is essentially lost to countries like france, but there is more to enjoying soccer than that. The team and it's performance still represents the quality of soccer in the french league. There is still the skill and spectacle. It still represents the colors of the country, and argualbly that is all that is left of France after all these years of open borders.

With that said, I too mourn the cultural and ethnic representation that used to be a part of the olympics in particular, but all international sports in general. It is certainly not what it used to be.