The Portuguese who are Portuguese, and the Portuguese who are not Portuguese

In the same weekend, the under-17 Portuguese team and the Portuguese of PSG were European champions. Not all Portuguese liked it.

Saturday and Sunday were days to celebrate, for Portuguese football fans who like titles won by Portuguese selections and who like titles won by foreign teams who have Portuguese players.

On Saturday, the PSG He was European Football Champion for the first time. No margin for doubt, in the final: against Inter Milan. Three Portuguese They were holders, as usual: Nuno Mendes, João Neves and Vitinha. Gonçalo Ramos entered the end.

Afonso Gonçalves, from the Reconquista nationalist group, reacted to this unprecedented title on Saturday night: “Congratulations to the 3 Portuguese which are European champions. ”

Afonso ignored Nuno Mendes, for not being white. Nuno Mendes was born in Sintra.

Congratulations to the 3 Portuguese who are European champions 🚀 🇵🇹

– Afonso Gonçalves (@afonsojfg)

On Sunday, Portugal was European champion sub-17. Also without giving great hypotheses to the opponent: against France in the final.

Even before the beginning of this tournament, it was easy to look at the call list and notice some names that were not habitual in a Portuguese selection: Alexandre Tverdohlebov, Daniel Banjai, Gabriel Dbouk, Martim Chelmik, Stevan Manuel, Santiago Verdi, Zega, Mateus Mide or Anísio Cabral.

All of them were born in Portugal. Looking at the players’ chips on the portal, it is seen that they were all born in Portugal.

Alexandre Tverdohlebov comes from a family from Russia; The families of Daniel Banjaqui and Anísio Cabral are from Guinea-Bissau; Stevan Manuel is even Renato Sanches’s nephew; Zega is nicknamed Martim Costa Guedes; Mateus Mide is the son of Mide, a Brazilian who played futsal in Portugal for many years.

But all were born in Portugal. Of these names, all were born on Portuguese soil.

When the Portuguese Football Federation highlighted the U17 determination to the European final, last week, four selection players who appear in the image are negros. And that originated angry comments – which were in the meantime.

“They soon went to choose a photo with 4 Africans…”, or “Why did they wear four monkeys with the Portuguese jersey?”, Or “Nausea Fedor”, or the repeated idea that there was no Portuguese in that photograph.

Again: these four negros (and the five in total, of the selection) were born in Portugal.

Among all Portuguese footballers who were in the European in Albania, Only two were born outside Portugal: Yoan Pereira and Gil Neves. Both were born in Luxembourg. Both are White.