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Bernini’s Daphne and Apollo. That’s one. Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major. That’s another. And Bergkamp’s goal for Arsenal away at Newcastle in March 2002. That’s a third. What are they? Supreme examples of sublime art-forms created by the Whites of north-western Europe. Classical art, classical music, and soccer are three White inventions that have delighted and dazzled the world.

Bernini and Bergkamp create beauty (images from Infogalactic and Sky Sports)
Bernini and Bergkamp create beauty (images from Infogalactic and Sky Sports)

I would say that all three are art-forms that seek to stir emotion, elevate the spirit, and create stunning beauty. In fact, I’d relate soccer to a fourth world-conquering White art: ballet. I’ve always seen the appeal of soccer, but I never saw the appeal of ballet until a female friend persuaded me to watch some. And I was impressed. Ballet is not just great art: it had much more in common with soccer than I realized. There’s a parallel grace and athleticism, a parallel striving to challenge the boundaries of gravity and physiology. It’s just that soccer appeals most to heterosexual men, not homosexuals, and that a game of soccer is like two separate ballets being performed at once on the same stage. Each team is trying alternately to design and to disrupt. It wants to design patterns with the ball that create goals for itself and to disrupt the goal-hunting patterns of the other team.

Scale-spanning spectacle

That’s why a good goal is such a special event. The patterns in ballet are beautiful, but they follow a fixed script, are practised and perfected in rehearsal, and aren’t attacked on stage by half the performers. In soccer, there can be no fixed scripts and patterns are constantly under attack, are constantly failing and faltering. When a pattern succeeds and a goal is scored, it’s order being imposed on chaos, light breaking through darkness, a seed sprouting and flowering amid mud and muck. You can say the same of scores in other sports, of course, but what makes soccer special is the clarity with which you can see the patterns failing and succeeding on the stage. The ball is large, round, and highly visible. It rolls and curves and flies, but it doesn’t move with eye-defeating speed or regularly disappear amid a mass of bodies. Soccer is the supreme stadium sport, combining perfectly with White architecture and organization to create a visual and emotional feast for huge crowds around the world.

But at the same time soccer is perfect for kids to play at a moment’s notice on a patch of concrete or waste-ground. It spans scales like no other sport, combines simplicity, cerebrality and spectacle like no other sport, and is easy to understand and play like no other sport. That’s why it’s conquered the world like no other sport. It’s a game with a globe that has gone global. But don’t expect gratitude or praise for the Whites who invented it, perfected it, and popularized it among other races. Many of the non-Whites who insist that “Whites have no culture” will be avid followers of the game, supporters of one or another of the British and European clubs that laid its foundations and powered its rise to global success. Soccer is world-conquering White culture, but in winning the world it somehow lost its Whiteness. The race that gets celebrated in modern soccer is not its necessary creators and continuing sustainers, but its inessential contributors: not Whites but Blacks. Soccer would not exist without Whites and would continue to exist without Blacks.

Facially and phonetically alien

Those stark facts will be never be acknowledged in the mainstream, of course. But here are two more facts: Blacks are very good at soccer and many of soccer’s greatest players have been Black. That’s players, not coaches: Blacks excel athletically in sport, not intellectually. They can play at the highest level, but not organize teams or devise tactics and adapt them as games flow and shift. Take the half-Black, half-Algerian Kylian Mbappé. He’s currently one of the world’s best players, but I’m confident that he won’t go on to be one of the world’s best coaches. Or even one of world’s better coaches. As I write, he’s the star player for France in the European Soccer Championship 2024. After all, he was born in Paris, elder son of two French citizens, so he’s fully French and perfectly entitled to play for the French national side. Right? No, wrong! Mbappé isn’t French and shouldn’t be playing for France.

Olivier Giroud and Kylian Mbappé: spot the true Frenchman
Olivier Giroud and Kylian Mbappé: spot the true Frenchman

There’s a simple reason for this. Nations are not notions. In other words, nations are not defined by words or concepts. Instead, they’re defined by blood and belonging. Etymology, the history of words, isn’t often a reliable guide to current reality, but you can rely completely on the etymology of “nation.” It comes from the Latin verb nasci, meaning “to be born.” Nations are born, not made. They’re based on bonds of blood, they’re cemented by shared history. But Kylian Mbappé doesn’t share blood or history with the true French. When you set him beside another star of the French team, Olivier Giroud, the contrast is almost ludicrous. Giroud is clear-skinned and well-groomed, has classically refined features, looks both intelligent and athletic, and seems as French as his name. That’s just as it should be, because he is French (with some ancestry from the brother-nation of Italy). Set beside Giroud, Mbappé looks like a troglodyte and doesn’t look French in the slightest. After all, his father is Black and his mother is Algerian. His very name says that he isn’t French: Mbappé is African, not European. It’s phonetically alien, just as Mbappé himself is facially alien. It isn’t just his dark skin and non-White features. He has dead, soul-less eyes. I don’t know how well those eyes reveal his character and psychology, but I do know that Blacks and Algerians in France are hugely over-represented as murderers, rapists, and thieves.

White boys should not idolize Black Bukayo

That’s part of why Blacks and Algerians are noxious for the nation of France, just as Blacks and Pakistanis are noxious for the nation of Britain. But I would prefer to say the “nations of France” and the “nations of Britain.” I don’t think that either France or Britain is a true nation. No, they’re what you might call combi-nations, uniting smaller White nations under a single name. For example (and inter alia), France absorbed a true Celtic nation in Brittany just as Britain absorbed true Celtic nations in Wales, Cornwall, and northern Scotland. Even England within Britain could be divided into smaller and stronger nations. But it’s not wrong that there’s an English national soccer team behind which the Whites of northern and southern England can unite. Like France, England is playing as I write in the European Championships. And like France, England fields Black players who aren’t English and shouldn’t be playing in a competition for European nations. You’ve seen the contrast between Olivier Giroud and Kylian Mbappé in the French team. Now try the contrast between Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka in the English team:

Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka: spot the true Briton
Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka: spot the true Briton

Kane is White and fully British; Saka is Black and not British at all. He plays soccer very well, but doesn’t belong in the English national side. He should be playing for a Black national team, contributing to a supreme sporting spectacle for Black crowds bonded by blood to him and his team-mates. I don’t think Saka should be playing for the English club Arsenal either. Young White fans should not be idolizing Black sportsmen and Black sportsmen are very useful in the leftist project of dilution and destruction. Leftists use Blacks to dilute nationhood as they work towards the golden goal of destroying White nations. Blacks don’t belong in England or France. Or in Spain or Portugal or Germany or Austria, all of whom are still playing in the European championships as I write and all of whom are fielding Black players who are facially and phonetically alien.

The power of alphabets

That’s why I don’t enjoy watching those notionally national teams any more. I can admire the skill and appreciate the goals, but I abominate the noxious notionhood that sets Whites who belong by blood beside Blacks who don’t belong at all. However, although I can’t enjoy watching Spain or Germany any more, I’ve definitely enjoyed watching two other teams. That’s because they embody not noxious notionhood but natural nationhood. One of those teams isn’t White or European and some would say the same of the other. Who am I talking about? Turkey and Georgia, that’s who. Geographically they’re next-door neighbors; culturally and linguistically they’re worlds apart. Turkey is Muslim, Georgia is Christian, for example. But they have something big in common at the European championships. They’re fielding true national teams with not a Black in sight. The two teams met right at the beginning and although I didn’t like the result — 3–1 to Turkey — I did enjoy the Turks’ skilful soccer and savor the way that all her goal-scorers were fully and phonetically Turkish: Müldür, Güler, Aktürkoğlu. That’s four umlauts (and one breve). And those umlauts are more significant than they might appear. The Turkish leader Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938), who was possibly part-Jewish, tried to turn Turkey into a secular European nation and cut her off from the Ottoman period. As part of that, he mandated the Roman alphabet for the Turkish language, which had formerly been written in Arabic script.

Atatürk was abolishing a border, dismantling a linguistic wall. Or rather, he was abolishing one border even as he established another. Use of the Arabic alphabet had aligned Turkey with Arabs and the East; use of the Roman alphabet aligned her with Europeans and the West. Turks no longer needed to struggle with a new alphabet when they learned French or German or English. In more ways than one, Atatürk diluted Turkey’s Islamic identity with the stroke of a pen. Alphabets can be powerful as political tools, not just as linguistic ones. You can also see that in Turkey’s neighbor Georgia, which has maintained its own unique alphabet for its own unique language down many centuries. Language and alphabet have undoubtedly helped tiny Georgia maintain her nationhood even as giants like Turkey and Russia have regularly seized her territory and crushed her independence. The Jewish language Yiddish offers another example of the same thing. Yiddish is more or less a dialect of German and if it were written in the Roman alphabet, it would always have been readily accessible and at least partly comprehensible to gentiles who spoke German.

Bonded vs Blackened

But Yiddish is in fact written in the Hebrew alphabet, so it isn’t accessible or comprehensible to outsiders at all. Jews wanted to maintain their nationhood, so they put up a linguistic barrier. Atatürk wanted to remake Turkish nationhood, so he pulled down a linguistic barrier. But he could never have succeeded in making Turkey European and in a perfect world they wouldn’t be playing in the European Football Championships. But the world isn’t perfect and as it is I think Turkey are doing Europeans a service by playing there. They aren’t just playing attractive soccer: they’re showing Europeans what a true nation looks like.

Georgia are doing the same. They’re ranked 74th in the world but they beat Portugal, who are ranked sixth. Georgia are bonded by blood; Portugal are blighted by Blacks. Georgia also play with far more spirit and unity than England, but I think that’s easy to explain. The Georgian team embodies natural nationhood; the English team embodies noxious notionhood. Kylian Mbappé and Bukayo Saka are undoubtedly very good players, but they’re French and English only on paper. Olivier Giroud and Harry Kane are French and English in the way that truly counts: by blood. Soccer is a game with a globe that has gone global, but it also reveals the limits of globalism. Blacks don’t belong in European teams. Nations are not notions.

(Republished from The Occidental Observer by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. Notsofast says:

    It’s just that soccer appeals most to heterosexual men, not homosexuals, and that a game of soccer is like two separate ballets being performed at once on the same stage. Each team is trying alternately to design and to disrupt. It wants to design patterns with the ball that create goals for itself and to disrupt the goal-hunting patterns of the other team.

    come on tobias, are you talking about soccer or football? do they play in their their socks or do they wear boots? yeah, boots, not shoes, or cleats, it’s not the golden sock, it’s the golden boot. soccer is for americans (most of whom, consider it to be kind of a “fag” sport), in ‘merica, football is a blood sport, played by hulking, steroid infused, 85 i.q. college gradumates, wearing helmets and body armor.

    our baseball, is more akin to your football, here’s george carlin explaining the difference between american football and baseball.


    Video Link

  2. c matt says:

    Bernini was not NORTH western European – Daphne and Apollo is an an example of Italian excellence. NW Euros did not seem to have much talent for sculpture.

    • Thanks: Santoculto, Pastit
    • Replies: @Santoculto
  3. “Atatürk diluted Turkey’s Islamic identity with the stroke of a pen.”

    That would be Atta Turk the Crypto Jew?

    ..articles about Jewish dictator Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and Jewish Founders of Secular Turkey..

    https://www.atajew.com/?m=1

  4. Not being much of a sports fan myself, I’ve always wondered how people get behind a “home team” that nearly always consists of people from somewhere else, who will go somewhere else at a moment’s notice… and the whole team itself can pull up stakes and relocate when the contract is up.

    May as well not even have the city in the name. I don’t get it.

  5. c matt says:

    Football (European) and baseball share a couple things:

    1. They are both relatively easy for pick-up play
    2. They don’t require a specific build for the most part (e.g, 6’5″, or 200 lbs)
    3. They don’t require too much expensive equipment (although the cost of things have gotten really out of hand for both)
    4. If you haven’t played it or don’t get the rules, you may find it quite boring.

    The top 20 players of all time skew heavily White European ancestry. Quite a feat given that Whites make up less than 10% of world population. That is in large part due to the better cognitive abilities – able to see play develop and make the right pass at the right time, move into the right position, recognize an offensive threat and neutralize it, etc. The Africans may be faster/quicker, but actual technical ability is not that different, thus football intelligence is more important (sadly, US youth coaches don’t get this and always look for the “fastest” players, not necessarily the best players).

  6. Anonymous[233] • Disclaimer says:

    “Bernini’s Daphne and Apollo. That’s one. (…) What are they? Supreme examples of sublime art-forms created by the Whites of north-western Europe.”

    Naples is in north-western Europe?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Lorenzo_Bernini

  7. @Notsofast

    American football was a man’s sport long before steroids you poofter .

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  8. Pastit says:

    Great article. These Africans are being given full force to take over White European Sports.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  9. Soccer would be much better if they got rid of the damn goalie. All these guys kick it around until one finally gets a clear shot at the goal but some jackass steps in and grabs the ball? WTF!

    Then scores would be something like 23 to 21 with lots of GOALS! Not 1 to 2 decided by a penalty kick or goalie error. Right now its just watching grass grow with guys running around on top.

    • Replies: @mark green
    , @c matt
  10. Interesting article, and it is obvious you love football. Like you are arguing, the sport has become corrupted, but in a rather more fundamental way: by money.

    Big league European and English football teams are actually investment vehicles, money making operations. That is why it has long been attractive for rich businessmen to buy these teams, investing sums running in the hundreds of millions of Euros.

    Of course such investors intend to make money on their investment and the surest way of doing that is taking care that the team is successful in national and international competitions and tournaments and that its players that are selected for the “national” team also get to play and be noticed.

    Now, success in football is ultimately decided by the referee. How much does a referee earn? Not very much. As a matter of fact, a pittance compared to what even a mediocre football player would make. Therefore, how easy and cheap it must be to bribe referees!

    Considering these simple facts, it is plainly obvious that football is utterly corrupted, most certainly in national competitions, but also in UEFA and FIFA tournaments. Care is taken that teams or nations without a certain mass appeal (bad for business!) will not finish too high.

    Just keep these simple truths in mind when watching your next game.

    What you are actually seeing each time is 25 actors on a field performing a play, making you believe the are playing a game. Indeed, it is a game they are playing…a game on you!

  11. @Carlton Meyer

    Soccer would be much better if they got rid of the damn goalie.

    That’s a bit over-the-top but I basically agree. What soccer needs to do is enlarge the goal area.

    Just as pro-baseball narrowed the strike zone to allow more hits, soccer needs MORE SCORING.

    This objective can be achieved by simply making the goal area 15 or 20% larger than it is now. More scoring will create more excitement. (This could work for ice hockey, too)

    In a related subject, pro-golf should make the hole on the putting green twice as big as it is now. The game of golf would move faster and there would be many more outstanding puts from far away and even off the green. Wow! Pro golfers would be expected to one-put every green to make par.

    This adjustment would speed up and energize golf and make it more fun to play as well as to watch.

  12. @Notsofast

    Still funny and clever! Thanks.

  13. @Notsofast

    You clowns think that the padded up pansies mincing up the field cradling a “ball” like a Gucci clutch purse is football?
    Thanks for the laugh.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
    , @Notsofast
  14. It’s Brits who look like Harry Kane who are pushing escalation with Russia right now. They’re a threat to everyone on the planet. That black fella, maybe he’s a threat to his girlfriend, but other than that, he’s harmless.

  15. Anonymous[236] • Disclaimer says:
    @Pastit

    Not just Europe:

    “Canadian” National Team

    • Replies: @Roger Es
  16. Anonymous[236] • Disclaimer says:
    @Bill Jones

    Video Link

    You’re welcome.

  17. Notsofast says:
    @Catdompanj

    oh yeah, well tell that to bill jones @14, he called you a padded up pansy, mincing about with a gucci clutch.

  18. Notsofast says:
    @Bill Jones

    to me the real football, is when i get catdompanj to kick you in the nuts. goooooaaalll!

    • Replies: @Catdompanj
  19. Roger Es says:
    @Anonymous

    Most of the teams are owned by Jews, they prioritize hiring negros so that they can be shoved in front of everyone’s faces.. They do the same thing with who they choose to elevate in music, movies, and popular culture – negros as usual – while passing over Whites. That’s why this is still a mostly Western phenomenon as Jews haven’t fully infiltrated non-White societies yet, although they are beginning to make inroads into places with US bases such as Japan and South Korea.

    • Agree: Dragoslav
  20. **** wanted to maintain their nationhood, so they put up a linguistic barrier

    As with the turks, the word should be : …Orthographic barrier… Graphotic barrier… Alphabetic, (“alephbetim”) [ktav ashuri] , scribal, lithotactic, whatever, but not a linguistic one.

    You already stated the language is a dialect of german…

  21. The German World Championship 22 person strong winning teams of 1974 and 1990 still consisted solely of real Germans. The one of 2014 had 2 two blacks and one Turk, with the latter openly stating that his loyalty is to Erdogan, not to Germany.
    The current team has 4 blacks and 3 Turks, so about a third and far in excess of their proportion of the population, and the politicians openly endorse and love this change.
    That also demonstrates the change of the population and their influence quite well.
    On a positive note, the most senior, well paid and the most liked players are still the whites, in particular those few without tattoos all over their body.
    But as a consequence and in general, many real Germans can’t identify with these kinds of national teams anymore.
    But you can’t turn back the clock. In this case, very much unfortunately.

  22. Marcali says:
    @Notsofast

    In the Australian context European football is called soccer and football is reserved for the Australian football with its oval playing field and oval ball.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  23. Soccer? You’ve got to be kidding.

    • Replies: @Anonymous 1
  24. The Turkish team looks more European than the Austrian team they beat, which featured several Africans. Indeed they may be the most European side left in the tournament.

  25. @obwandiyag

    Not a patch on America Football that is played in nearly every country around the world unlike Soccer which is mostly unheard of 🤔

    • Replies: @obwandiyag
  26. c matt says:
    @Carlton Meyer

    Interesting idea – same could be said for hockey.

    Could make the goal smaller to compensate for no goalie. But then what would you do with tall awkward White kids?

  27. c matt says:

    At least Rudiger has a German sounding name. The French Africans don’t even bother.

  28. Notsofast says:
    @Marcali

    australia is just an upside down and backward version version of the u.s., just another british penal colony.

  29. Anonymous[233] • Disclaimer says:
    @Notsofast

    To us Europeans is incredibly strange that Americans perceive soccer as effeminate.
    The whole culture surrounding soccer in Europe is very masculine. Over here, masculine men are into soccer, women and gays not as much, and if a man is indifferent to soccer we think he might be gay.
    Soccer fans are especially rowdy in a masculine way. The British hooliganism of the 80s is legendary. That kind of hooliganism doesn’t even exist in American sports.
    Soccer is a rough game where you get hurt easily. Baseball is not.
    Any European who hears “soccer is obviously gay” (as American sometimes joke to each other) will find it baffling and bizarre. It’s like calling chess a stupid man’s game.

    • Replies: @AceDeuce
  30. AceDeuce says:
    @Anonymous

    Soccer fans are especially rowdy in a masculine way. The British hooliganism of the 80s is legendary. That kind of hooliganism doesn’t even exist in American sports.

    Yes, Acting like infantile fools over kicking a ball into a net while feral negroes, camel humpers, and lox chompers invade and conquer and take over your women and your countries is the epitome of masculinity, innit?

    • Agree: trevor
    • LOL: Notsofast
    • Replies: @trevor
    , @Anonymous
  31. @Anonymous 1

    Yeah, billions of people in every country around the world love Eurovision, too.

    • Replies: @Anonymous 1
  32. Anonymous[233] • Disclaimer says:
    @AceDeuce

    I’m not saying hooliganism is good or defensible, but it’s obviously not gay.

    And Europeans are not the only ones who are passive in the face of third world invasion. Americans are no different.

  33. @Notsofast

    Two separate replies and that was your collective rebuttal? Try a third.
    Well played flamer.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  34. @obwandiyag

    And that takes place how many times a year?

  35. Notsofast says:
    @Catdompanj

    poofter and flamer? that doesn’t sound very american to me. let me show you how it’s done states side.

    so were you a center bending over, or a quarterback giving him reacharound? time to hit the showers, you sportsball closet queen.

  36. England fan has a word or two to say on England’s defeat in the Euro final!

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