Your Best Black XI

[ChooseLife]

Inspired by the 'ginger eleven' thread i remember reading on here a couple years ago plus all the racism we've been hearing about over the last few weeks, who is your best black eleven?, players must currently play, mainly due to Pele and Ronaldo!

[hibsfan7]

JUST PLAYED FOR HIBS
MAKALAMBY
DEL LA CRUZ
BAMBA
DICKOH
KUJABI
AGATHE
LATAPY
ROCASTLE
OSBOURNE
DONALDSON
VAZ TE:hibees:hibees:hibees:hibees:hibees

[CB_NO3]

4-3-3
Al Habsi
Cafu
R.Carlos
Rio Ferdinand
Marcel Desailly
Viera
Yaya Toure
Makalele.
Pele
Drogba
Ronaldo

[Pete]

Who is going to be in the whites only team that plays them?

[CB_NO3]

Too early for me lol, just read players must still play.
Al Habsi
Maicon
A.Cole
Rio
V.Kompany
Alex Song
Yaya Toure
Michael Essien
Thierry Henry
Drogba
Eto

Subs, Nani, Aaron Lennon, Seedorf, Super Mario, Marcello

[hibbill2002]

JUST PLAYED FOR HIBS
MAKALAMBY
DEL LA CRUZ
BAMBA
DICKOH
KUJABI
AGATHE
LATAPY
ROCASTLE
OSBOURNE
DONALDSON
VAZ TE:hibees:hibees:hibees:hibees:hibees

yi forgot big Jim!

[cocopops1875]

yi forgot big Jim!

And wee kev

[cocteautwin]

Ryan Giggs has got to be in there somewhere.

[WellingtonHibby]

Why has no one mentioned hong kong thierry or the mali magician? !?!

[ChooseLife]

I don't watch much Premiership football, do you guys think Al Habsi is better than Dida?

[ronaldo7]

Does Ian Black count

[deeks01]

Who is going to be in the whites only team that plays them?


Who is going to be in the whites only team that plays them?

Whites only? You fascist... ;).

This is a thinker -

Carlos Kameni (he was good in fm)

Evra
Pepe
Kompany
Maicon

Walcott
Yaya Toure
Alex Song
Nani

Drogba
Adebayor

[poolman]

I don't watch much Premiership football, do you guys think Al Habsi is better than Dida?


Al Habsi is one great goalkeeper

I was surprised he wasn't picked up by a more "fashionable" team in the last window :agree:

[Jones28]

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[Part/Time Supporter]

Who is going to be in the whites only team that plays them?

John Terry would be captain

:wink:

....

Another possible black goalkeeper would be Vincent Enyeama. He had a blinder for Nigeria against Argentina in the last World Cup; turned what should have been an absolute pounding into a 1-0 defeat.

[Keith_M]

I'm amazed nobody quoted David Beckham (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-172057/Beckham-new-black.html) for entry into the team.

[The_Exile]

Konte
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We all dream of a team of Amadous, a team of Amadous, a team of Amadous..........:jmcp:

[Hibercelona]

We all dream of a team of Amadous, a team of Amadous, a team of Amadous..........:jmcp:

Would have been an improvement over last seasons starting 11. :wink:

[muzzhfc]

Whites only? You fascist... ;).

This is a thinker -

Carlos Kameni (he was good in fm)

Evra
Pepe
Kompany
Maicon

Walcott
Yaya Toure
Alex Song
Nani

Drogba
Adebayor

You would have Walcott over Valencia??

[Mark79]

Maka
Zarabi
Kujabi
Boco
Hkt
Noubissie
Sar temsoury
Agogo
Jean
Pinau
Konte

[joe_hfc]

Apologies if this sounds padantic but...is this none-caucasian players, or black players i.e. African black.. because to me Pepe, Carlos, Cafu, Ronaldo etc really aren't black. They're hispanic! We should upload a dulux colour chart to encourage transparency to the matter in question :dunno:

[Minty Mike]

Inspired by the 'ginger eleven' thread i remember reading on here a couple years ago plus all the racism we've been hearing about over the last few weeks, who is your best black eleven?, players must currently play, mainly due to Pele and Ronaldo!


The best black XI has to be:

MAKALAMBY
DEL LA CRUZ
BAMBA
DICKOH
Qafzeh
AGATHE
LATAPY
Rodell Vereen
Vaz Te
DONALDSON

:aok:

[Scott Allan Key]

Apologies if this sounds padantic but...is this none-caucasian players, or black players i.e. African black.. because to me Pepe, Carlos, Cafu, Ronaldo etc really aren't black. They're hispanic! We should upload a dulux colour chart to encourage transparency to the matter in question :dunno:

And Al-Habsi is an Arab, like Zemmama and Benjelloun, not African black. Who can be included? Tom Taiwo has a Nigerian grandfather. Can he be included?

[DH1875]

Apologies if this sounds padantic but...is this none-caucasian players, or black players i.e. African black.. because to me Pepe, Carlos, Cafu, Ronaldo etc really aren't black. They're hispanic! We should upload a dulux colour chart to encourage transparency to the matter in question :dunno:


Exactly. I'm surprised this thread has even got this far as it's bound to offend someone.

[Mikeystewart]

JUST PLAYED FOR HIBS
MAKALAMBY
DEL LA CRUZ
BAMBA
DICKOH
KUJABI
AGATHE
LATAPY
ROCASTLE
OSBOURNE
DONALDSON
VAZ TE:hibees:hibees:hibees:hibees:hibees

No Kevin Harper ?!
Or Konte... Stunned

:bitchy:

[DAVE1875]

One's still playing-

Steve Mandanda

Maicon
Vincent Kompany
Anderson Vital da Silva aka Dede (Absolute beast in FM, was going to have Thiago Silva but alot of people don't classify him as black)
Ashley Cole

Antonio Valencia
Yaya Toure
Kevin-Prince Boateng
Nani

Didier Drogba
Robinho

[Minty Mike]

No Kevin Harper ?!
Or Konte... Stunned

:bitchy:

Equally surprised that Rodell Vereen wasn't included - he was some player. :confused:

[DH1875]

Daniel Alves
Anderson Vital da Silva aka Dede (Absolute beast in FM, was going to have Thiago Silva but alot of people don't classify him as black)
Neymar


I don't get that at all :confused:. If Thiago Silva isn't black, how comes Dani Alves and Neymar are?

[DAVE1875]

I don't get that at all :confused:. If Thiago Silva isn't black, how comes Dani Alves and Neymar are?

Happy now?

[DH1875]

Happy now?


Indeed :aok:.

[hibsbollah]

One's still playing-

Steve Mandanda

Maicon
Vincent Kompany
Anderson Vital da Silva aka Dede (Absolute beast in FM, was going to have Thiago Silva but alot of people don't classify him as black)
Ashley Cole

Antonio Valencia
Yaya Toure
Kevin-Prince Boateng
Nani

Didier Drogba
Robinho

Great shout for Mandanda :agree: how Lloris gets a game in front of him for France is a mystery...

[Minty Mike]

Great shout for Mandanda :agree: how Lloris gets a game in front of him for France is a mystery...


Surely Rodell Vereen should be in this squad?

[Hibeesmad]

Kujabi
Kujabi
Kujabi
Kujabi
Kujabi
Kujabi
Kujabi
Kujabi
Kujabi
Kujabi
Thicot :D

GGTTH. Bring on the saints

[SteveHFC]

Makalamby

Gathuessi
Bamba
Dickoh
Kujabi

Harper
Soares
Noubissie
Andrews

Konte
Konte

[Bostonhibby]

Nade anyone? Certainly gave me a lot of entertainment.

[heretoday]

Who is going to be in the whites only team that plays them?

Willie Hamilton obviously.

[Jonnyboy]

Al Habsi is one great goalkeeper

I was surprised he wasn't picked up by a more "fashionable" team in the last window :agree:

A lot of his early coaching, before he came to the UK, was courtesy of one John Burridge so I'd imagine Al Habsi says to Terry when facing Chelsea "Come into my box and I'll break your back"

:greengrin

[deeks01]

You would have Walcott over Valencia??

In all honesty I never even thought about Valencia , or nani for that matter , both of whom I would have ahead of Walcott who I believe to be vastly over-rated most of the time. Now that I think about it there are several players I'd change but I will be a man and stick with my original squad ;)!

On the who is black/arab/asian/tanned front it did occur to me that several players mentioned weren't technically coming under the definition of 'black' however I didn't want to be 'that guy' and went with the flow!

There are a lot of these 'ultimate *insert specification* XI' about just now and it occurs to me that you could (probably not 100% sure) do some sort of online tournament using football manager and an edited database. Say you let the thread run a bit then do a poll to see the 4 best teams , when you have that start a tournament with those 4 teams at a semi final stage and play it out from there. Not for a moment suggesting doing this every thread like this (if its even possible) but for a couple of them it could be interesting. Could also be very problematic and time consuming I'd imagine. What's the verdict? Anyone fancy it?

[heidtheba]

Kevin Harper - shame his career went on the slide so soon and that he did some really stupid things (from what I've heard but willing to be told otherwise). Cracking wee player back in 94 when I got my first season ticket.

[ChooseLife]

Apologies if this sounds padantic but...is this none-caucasian players, or black players i.e. African black.. because to me Pepe, Carlos, Cafu, Ronaldo etc really aren't black. They're hispanic! We should upload a dulux colour chart to encourage transparency to the matter in question :dunno:

I was going to say R. Ferdinand and darker in the OP, but your idea sounds much better :greengrin

[Cropley10]

Apologies if this sounds padantic but...is this none-caucasian players, or black players i.e. African black.. because to me Pepe, Carlos, Cafu, Ronaldo etc really aren't black. They're hispanic! We should upload a dulux colour chart to encourage transparency to the matter in question :dunno:

Fat Ronaldo isn't Hispanic. Brazil has never been Spanish, it's closest to Portuguese and the modern use of Hispanic is "association with Spain". Africans were enslaved and were transported to Brazil and the Carribean, that's why some Brazilians have African, West African heritage, in the same way many black British players do too.

[heretoday]

Kevin Harper - shame his career went on the slide so soon and that he did some really stupid things (from what I've heard but willing to be told otherwise). Cracking wee player back in 94 when I got my first season ticket.

I will be ever grateful for his goal to beat Hearts in a derby circa 1997/98. I found myself singing "Walking in a Harper wonderland".

[joe_hfc]

Fat Ronaldo isn't Hispanic. Brazil has never been Spanish, it's closest to Portuguese and the modern use of Hispanic is "association with Spain". Africans were enslaved and were transported to Brazil and the Carribean, that's why some Brazilians have African, West African heritage, in the same way many black British players do too.

The term Hispanic stems itself from ancient Hispania, which is the Portugese, Spannish, Andorran and Gillbratese regions... according to the ever factual Wikipedia!! I would have him as Hispanic over Black.. If I had to choose a race for him!

[Macaroon]

Steve Mandanda

Maicon Naldo Samba Cole

Ramires Y.Toure A.Song

Neymar

Remy - Demba Ba

[FromTheCapital]

Mandanda

Maicon
Kompany
Thiago Silva/Dede
Cole

Valencia
Yaya Toure
KP Boateng
Marcelo

Neymar
Balotelli

[Squealing pig]

Makalamby
Jimmy boco
Bamba
Dickoh
De la cruz

Agathe
Latapy
Rocastle
Rougier

Sodgie
Harper

[heidtheba]

I will be ever grateful for his goal to beat Hearts in a derby circa 1997/98. I found myself singing "Walking in a Harper wonderland".

I was gutted that I couldn't make that game. He had Neil Pointon in his back pocket for the entire 90 mins.

[hibsbollah]

Matt Doumbe over Dickoh everytime.

[VickMackie]

Makalele forgotten about already!

I love these sort of threads. You remember so many great players you'd forgotten about.

[heidtheba]

Makalele forgotten about already!

I love these sort of threads. You remember so many great players you'd forgotten about.

Def! I'd also have Marcel Desailly and George Weah in my list!

[Cropley10]

The term Hispanic stems itself from ancient Hispania, which is the Portugese, Spannish, Andorran and Gillbratese regions... according to the ever factual Wikipedia!! I would have him as Hispanic over Black.. If I had to choose a race for him!

Trust me Pele and Ronaldo etc don't have Hispanic roots.

Read what Wikipedia has to say about Slavery in Brazil...

[ChooseLife]

Matt Doumbe over Dickoh everytime.

This, Doumbe was a legend,

[--------]

Does Ian Black count


Yup.

Up to 24, using all his fingers and toes. :devil: