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...conditions. Today's estimates are that around 1,000 African players earn their keep in Europe, a low figure compared with the Brazilian pro Diaspora which is believed to number in the region of 5,000 players. And none of the African players who regularly start for an English Premiership team was recruited directly from Africa - all were bought from other European teams...
...large, more disciplined and organized team effort. The European clubs seek the silky ball handling skills, speed and unpredictability of players who play the Brazilian game - whether from Latin America, Africa or even France or Portugal - but mix it up with organizational traditions long established in Europe. Arsenal's Premiership winning squad last season relied on a combination of English and African defenders; a set of midfielders comprising two Frenchmen, two Brazilians and a Swede; and a set of strikers that included a Frenchman, a Dutchman, a Spaniard and sometimes a Nigerian. And in Europe's top clubs today...
...conditions. Today's estimates are that around 1,000 African players earn their keep in Europe, a low figure compared with the Brazilian pro Diaspora which is believed to number in the region of 5,000 players. And none of the African players who regularly start for an English Premiership team was recruited directly from Africa - all were bought from other European teams, making the gamble taken by the likes of Sibaya, Zwane or Anyamkyegh a fair bet. (And, of course, after a couple of seasons' service, selling these players, whose contracts were acquired for a couple of hundred thousand...
...each time they turn out for the national team. The top clubs would rather their players didn't have to turn out for the national team at all. Right now, putting pressure on players to resist national team call-ups for England would be beyond the pale for English premiership clubs, whose fans would turn on them in an instant. But despite FIFA ruling designed to prevent the practice, they put immense pressure on players from lesser foreign powers to cry injury when the national team comes calling, or even to "retire" from international football at ridiculously young ages. Just...
...able to hand over to an Iraqi authority at the end of June. If that can be achieved Blair will be able to claim some final vindication; but if Iraq descends into a civil war with British troops caught in the middle, it will be the end of his premiership. Either way, Iraq has now replaced Suez as the shorthand in Britain for a foreign-policy disaster. During the 1956 Suez crisis, the Americans hauled the British back from a foolhardy military adventure in the Middle East; in 2003 the Americans led the British into one. After Suez, successive British...