cedarbreed said:
Lizarazu,Djorkaeff and Zidane are definitely French. So are Henry and Trezeguet, Petit and Vieira, Barthez and Saha and so on and so forth. May they be black or dark-skinned, here skin coulour is in No way related to nationality. Saying the contrary is an evident proof of racism here ... Well, those guys do have roots aborad like in Algeria for Zidane or in Armenia as far as Djork. is concerned but hey do are French. And for the record, a good bunch of them have roots in 'Les Antilles' which aren't African islands at all and are 100% French territories.
ho-ho-ho 
i dont hate or love anybody just for their skin colour (or rather: its a complex question, dont wanna go into its depths), but its a fact that nowadays it has less meaning to speak about nationalities. the French WChamp national team is an excellent example you almost cant name anyone who has 'roots' in your mainland (exceptions: Deschamps, Petit, Barthez?, Dugarry).
Its not a problem, its a world-wide, 'normal' process. Rich countries attract ppl from poorer territories and the stronger countries conquer poorer territories, etc.
Funny though, how German soccer kept its unmatchable boredom. There is no greater pain than hearing that our sports channel will broadcast a Bochum-1860 München-like 'derby' in the midst of a nice Sunday afternoon.
Our football is way better than that, we always give players "Hungarian Soccer Points" for the really lame moves. You cant see these killer acts in other leagues where a player passes where his mate is, or handles a ball with skill, etc. Here, these ordinary things are replaced with something I call "wondrous randomity", and a good example/quote may stand for this phenomena: "Hrutka... good shot on goal! ... Oh, throw-in..." (Or you can take Löw, our national teams LWB, who -- a week or 2 ago @ a friendly against Cymru -- gave a Welsh striker a wonderfulll 30-40 m long cross-pass from the left side of our central midfield to our penalty box, while attempting to shoot the ball _forward_. (We lost 1-2 with that goal...))
Hungarian soccer saves time for you too, because you have to play it 1.5 times faster to have something like a real football match, so the whole case takes only 60 minutes or so.
So in no way i am envy for the western european football, though i've been regulary listening to Vancouver Canucks hockey games for a while...
