prepare for intense anglo cope and for every single western article to refer to her as "American-born Eileen Gu"
What Americans crying about this don't understand is that nearly half the American men's soccer team grew up or developed in Germany. They don't complain then.
It's less true now than it used to be. out of the USA's starting lineup the only ones that didn't grow up in the US and spend time in the US soccer system are Musah, Dest, and Robinson. Everyone else did at least all of their developement before 16 in the US. the () is the age they left the USA for europe
Pulisic (16) ---- sargent(18) ------ Reyna(16)
McKennie (18) -- Adams (19) --- Musah(got born in new york for no reason lmao)
Robinson(Dad is US dual national) ---- Richards (16) -- Zimmerman (Entire career) ---- Dest(Dad is a US dual national)
The US gets a lot of dual nationals to commit to them because everyone is nice and fun and has good vibes. Our players are super welcoming and happy to invite people into the squad. Head coach is generally a chill guy who cares about his players.
I would like to downvote you for responding so rudely to someone who typed up an informative and helpful comment.
Not everything America means you need to chime in.
Dest never lived in the US. Also, how is Eileen's situation different from those players you mentioned. Since 15, she's taken action to representing China.
? Of course he didnt, he grew up in the netherlands. His only connection is his dual national father.
Its not different at all, they all thought representing a different country than the one they were raised/developed in was a better opportunity.
Are we arguing? Did you miss the "didn't"?
My point was against the "she is good because she trained in the US" comments. Most of those players are where they are now because they moved to Europe to train in the big leagues. You're not a developed soccer player while playing for u16.
I think my starting lineup was unclear. I don't mean u16 teams I mean they spend their time under the age of 16 in the USA. Every one of those players, besides Richards, was getting playing time within a year of moving to Europe. I edited it to make it more clear. And yeah, you can't be a world class footballer without playing with the best players and coaches under the biggest pressure. Trying to get the best opportunities you can to be a better athlete doesn't have any bearing on what country you should represent, just like in the case of Gu.
Well, you see America is....a uh immigrant country so it's okay when the US does it.
This is a great case of how the melting pot is meant to remove and disperse cultural ties. Chinese heritage is treated like a sin, and when it is embraced in turn it is treated as traitorous and also meaningless cause suddenly being born somewhere is all that matters if it is the US and not Asia
Bruh. They just recruit a Dutch player that never live in the US, only play a few youth games there
Sunglasses like the chud Twitter profile would be perfect. Behind the wheel of an f150
it's in the next patch lineup, that white dude who went on tucker complaining about black students photoshopping his face onto a saltine
Yes, this is the one I'm talking about. I think I saw someone here suggest it as an emoji.
demonize Chinese people
Asian athletes ditch your shithole country:surprised-pika:
Good for her thoughrefer to her as “American-born Eileen Gu”
Literally a news headline I just read:
"US-born freeskier Gu wins Olympic big air gold for China"
:harold-manic:
I didn't know there were so many competitors playing for other countries...hell she's not even the only American competing for China, she's just one of the few non-white ones. Wonder why she gets all the focus......
I know the Chinese hockey team is like half Canadians too lol. Based defectors.
First they took our michaels.
Then they took hockey players.
I don't know what else they can do, but clearly Canada must react.
We only had the two! That was our entire supply of Michaels after Mike Myers moved
And after all those murders we are glad to be rid of him.
Eh i doubt they did it for their admiration of the socialist system or whatever
Kinda surprised to see so many actual nice comments on the video
That video is the qualifiers, https://youtu.be/_UEcXvQzV_I is the finals
Haven't seen anything on twitter about this
I have seen 3 tweets about Canada's 4th place medal though
I was quite relieved when I read it, was a lot of pressure on her to do well and stick it to all the libs in the press after all the :cope: posted in the last few days.
