The Argentina national team was praised after the championship World Cup 2022. At the same time, the praise was followed by criticism. The Tango Team squad is said to be “less black”.
The praise and criticism came from Joe Budden, a former rapper who now exists as a US celebrity. He highlighted the progress of Lionel Messi cs in Qatar.
At the world football party at the end of 2022, Messi managed to show off in bringing his country to win the championship trophy World Cup 2022 in Qatar.
That is a special achievement for La Pulga. With Messi already 35 years old, maybe he won’t be able to play another four years.
Joe Budden appreciates the success of Messi cs in Qatar. On the other hand, he highlights the Argentina squad in World Cup 2022which he considered too ‘white’.
“Compliments to Messi and them (Argentina),” he said on the Joe Budden Network podcast.
“Argentina won, right? I saw it in the final parts and it was amazing. They were involved in a penalty shootout. It was tense. But black people will feel ‘how come something is weird’.”
Budden’s line was later followed up on, and confirmed, by his podcast partner. “No black people play in Argentina. There is no black representation. So people will think it’s weird.”
According to SportBible, the video is quite attention-grabbing. A number of netizens also commented, including those who felt strange about the criticism of Budden cs.
“Argentina is a country, not a Netflix movie,” one user said.
“These people are joking huh?” comments from other netizens, do not believe the Budden cs chat material.
Refer data CIA The World FactBook as of October 25, 2022 regarding ethnic grouping in Argentina, Messi’s country actually only has around 0.4 percent African ethnicity. Meanwhile, genetically, according to a study, there are about 7.5 percent of the Argentine population who have ancestry from Sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2018, British media BBC never discussed about it in a video titled “how it feels to be Argentinian and black”.
In the video, the BBC says black people make up only one percent of the population in Buenos Aires. Afro-Argentines admit that they often feel treated like foreigners in their own country.
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