Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - RIP Diogo Jota

[Black Magisterialness]

How Barca lining up this season ?

I'm wondering this too...Because unless Coutinho is dropping back to the middle and not on the wing Barca has all these flank players. They've shown no indication that they would loan out Dembele. They could play a 4-4-2 with Messi dropping back underneath Suarez in the attack to make a 4-4-1-1.

Suarez Messi
Coutinho Busquets Rakitic Dembele/Malcom
Alba Pique Umititi Sergi Roberto/Semedo

 

[Givethanks]

I'm wondering this too...Because unless Coutinho is dropping back to the middle and not on the wing Barca has all these flank players. They've shown no indication that they would loan out Dembele. They could play a 4-4-2 with Messi dropping back underneath Suarez in the attack to make a 4-4-1-1.

Suarez Messi
Coutinho Busquets Rakitic Dembele/Malcom
Alba Pique Umititi Sergi Roberto/Semedo

Where does Arthur fit in this also I think Sergi Roberto is gonna go back to the midfeild

 

[Givethanks]

2026, it's coming home eh

#CanadaRed

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Where does Arthur fit in this also I think Sergi Roberto is gonna go back to the midfeild

Arthur is there for cover with Busquets and Rakitic but he won't be in the La Liga/UCL rotation imo. He'll be used for Cup matches...remember Rafinha is back from injury and they can recall Paulinho off loan if need be.

Sergi is staying right where he is. Semedo is good but he and Sergi have both played better knowing that neither one of them is the EVERYDAY RB. And why would Sergi move to the middle when you have Biscuits, Rakitic, Arthur, Coutinho (sometimes), Denis Suarez, Rafinha, and Andre Gomes? Barca doesn't need anymore midfield utility. They need solid full-backs. and RB is already figured out.

Barca get the most out of Sergi in the RB position. He's got a good engine, he classy on the ball, and while he's not the best DEFENDER his tiki-taka training got him used to applying pressure, AND I can't remember CR7 scoring very much against Sergi/Semedo. But most importantly, is Sergi is one of the best in La Liga at making runs out of the back and making smart decisions, there's not many RB's I would trust...but Sergi has been excellent at that.

 

[JDH]

Brazil has more nikkas than the US breh. More slaves were taken to Brazil than any other place on earth.

I just seen some documentary where they said more slaves were taken to Rio alone than all of the american south

 

[phcitywarrior]

Brazil has more nikkas than the US breh. More slaves were taken to Brazil than any other place on earth.

The thing that's crazy is that officially, Afro-Brazilians are less than 9% of the population.

Players like G. Jesus, Ronaldinho, Marcelo etc get classified as "Pardo" which is essentially mixed race (black, white, amerindian, etc) but in the US all of those guys would be considered Black.

 

[Black Magisterialness]

The thing that's crazy is that officially, Afro-Brazilians are less than 9% of the population.

Players like G. Jesus, Ronaldinho, Marcelo etc get classified as "Pardo" which is essentially mixed race (black, white, amerindian, etc) but in the US all of those guys would be considered Black.

Yup. 1 drop rule doesn't apply to Brazilians which is why cats like Neymar :neymarwtf: go out of their way to say they aint black. But to be fair and perhaps @THEREALBRAND can shed some light on it, but I can't remember anything akin to a "black is beautiful" or civil rights movement coming out of Brazil. But im not sure.

Black and mixed race people combined are like 50% of the country...not to mention the Pardos who consider themselves white....African blood runs through the VAST majority of the country. Its just odd to me as an Black American that is not claimed.

 

[J Money]

You got the likes of Wolves and Everton fighting to sign Yerry Mina when he could start right away for Arsenal

Koscielny coming off a long term injury and I know we signed Papadotrjejsbab from Dortmund but how can we pass up this opportunity if he's available?

 

[thatrapsfan]

Malcolm is like the most African American looking Brazilian I've ever seen. I can't describe it.

he look like Nas

Nene reading this

 

[thatrapsfan]

2026, it's coming home eh

#CanadaRed

The Great Hope @Max B

 

[phcitywarrior]

Yup. 1 drop rule doesn't apply to Brazilians which is why cats like Neymar :neymarwtf: go out of their way to say they aint black. But to be fair and perhaps @THEREALBRAND can shed some light on it, but I can't remember anything akin to a "black is beautiful" or civil rights movement coming out of Brazil. But im not sure.

Black and mixed race people combined are like 50% of the country...not to mention the Pardos who consider themselves white....African blood runs through the VAST majority of the country. Its just odd to me as an Black American that is not claimed.

"Race" in Brazil is a very very touchy subject. Like you said, no such thing as the one drop rule. Also, due to such a large mixed population and the disenfranchising of blacks, people run away from being labeled as black and cling to pardo.

To be fair to Neymar his features lean more Mestizo and European but there is no doubt he has black in him (look at how his hair curls when he grows it out) It's just not as visible as say Robinho, Ronaldinho, or even Paulinho.

Brazil 2019 we coming

 

[Black Magisterialness]

Nene reading this

So is Seu Jorge

hell so is the GOAT

 

[Black Magisterialness]

"Race" in Brazil is a very very touchy subject. Like you said, no such thing as the one drop rule. Also, due to such a large mixed population and the disenfranchising of blacks, people run away from being labeled as black and cling to pardo.

To be fair to Neymar his features lean more Mestizo and European but there is no doubt he has black in him (look at how his hair curls when he grows it out) It's just not as visible as say Robinho, Ronaldinho, or even Paulinho.

Brazil 2019 we coming

I'ma be for real, when I was younger, I legit thought Robinho was a Baltimore nikka who just moved to Brazil.

 

[THEREALBRAND]

Yup. 1 drop rule doesn't apply to Brazilians which is why cats like Neymar :neymarwtf: go out of their way to say they aint black. But to be fair and perhaps @THEREALBRAND can shed some light on it, but I can't remember anything akin to a "black is beautiful" or civil rights movement coming out of Brazil. But im not sure.

Black and mixed race people combined are like 50% of the country...not to mention the Pardos who consider themselves white....African blood runs through the VAST majority of the country. Its just odd to me as an Black American that is not claimed.

Pro-black movements definitely existed, but after the military coup of the 60s a lot of progressive causes and civil rights organizations were shut down. Even with the repressive military regime in control there were still pro-black groups, but they didn’t really become mainstream until the abertura política in the late 70s. That’s when you had groups like the Movimento Negro Unificado start to rise in prominence.

You also have to keep in mind that a lot of blacks at that time were poor and uneducated. It wasn’t like in the US where you had a thriving middle class of educated black people.

 

[Premeditated]

This makes no sense

that's why I said I can't explain it