I noticed it like once in the past , didnt think anything of it considering Ive never seen a black Argentine & through history I learned most Argentines are just spanish speaking italians

Italy have balotelli, spain had senna, germany boateng On the other hand france have giroud and lloris

Average American and British: why Argentina, a Latin American country, is whiter than my country???? This cannot be possibleeeeeee

I saw this being asked again this year, and someone replied with "Because we're not a Disney movie"

i have never heard about a black Argentinian man,let alone a footballer

I misread the title at first and thought it said “back” players as in defenders. I was very surprised when he began talking about black people

Why doesn't Nigeria have white, yellow, brown player. Same goes for Cameroon, Sudan, and rest of Africa ??

Returned to watch this exceptionally written piece after Messi won the world cup with Argentina.

VIDEO IDEA: *EVERY EPL CLUB'S BEST ACADEMY PRODUCT* (Could be current or ever)

Calling someone Negro in many countries isn’t Racist. In Mexico we do it all the time. I live in AZ for 20+ years now and have come to know about 5 black Hispanics who themselves went by the name “El negro” , just like some light skin Hispanics go by “guero”

I was NOT aware of Alejandro de los Santos and I consider myself a huge fan of the National Team. A son of slaves who came to Argentina at the end of the XIX century, when his parents died he moved from Entre Ríos (where he was born) to Buenos Aires and even played in my team San Lorenzo! And not just that, but he won the Copa America in 1925? I'm almost in tears. This is such moving story. Definitely the most beautiful historical fact I've learnt of recently.

im from venezuela, I been to argentina , the reason why there arent no blacks is because there are no black people in argentina , people there are white and some mestizos,, but no blacks at all.

Uruguay was the first country to let black players play in the international team, not gonna act like our team is 50% black but we usually have at least 2 or 3 in it. Never realized Argentina doesn't have black players until I read the title, weird to think about it

Two things I love: 1) football 2) history This video was tailor made for me! Loved every bit of it! Would love to see more.

the correct question is : why should they?

Why don’t France have any white players

7 clubs who never had any real golden generation 7 players who played on with medical conditions (Edgar Davids, Saul)

I think you should change the channel name to hitc football, the channel does more than make lists ranking different players. On youtube, you're probably the most knowledgable youtuber on football.

(11:36) Wrong! Argentina has not problems to admit its descendance, wether is African, Native or European. Secondly, the word "negro" is not only associated with social classes. It is also a word used to express affection towards somebody eg. "La Negra" Mercedes Sosa, "El Negro" Fontanarrosa, "El Negro Olmedo", "EL Negro Dolina" etc, etc....

because is a Country, not a Netflix TV show

World=complaints about Argentina don't have black player FIFA=That's why we love to put them with nigeria in the same group at world cup

late but next video idea: Why Brazil don't have Japanese footballer. Afterall Brazil has the highest number of japanese after Japan.

A lot of the data in this video is misleading or just plain wrong.... Argentina wasn't a "major part of the slave trade", there was barely anyone living in the Rio de la Plata back then. It was a forgotten backwater of the Spanish Empire. Sure, 30% of the population was black in 1810, but the population back then was only 500 thousand people! Add in the fact that 7.5 million European immigrants arrived in the following century (second largest recipient after the USA), and the fact that slavery and the slave trade were abolished very early (1812), and you can see how the black population of 150 thousand (30% of 500k) got dilluted due to that huge migratory wave of Europeans. 0.4% of the population today identifies as black, and genetic testing shows 7% has some black genes (such as that goalkeeper you mention), so it's all perfectly explained in the current demographics of the country. It's true that black people died in disproportionate numbers during the war in Paraguay, and that they were discriminated against during the 19th century, but to talk about genocide here is nonsense. You can bet that if there had been an organized ethnic cleansing campaign there would be historical evidence for it. A lot of this simply stems from not understanding statistics and Latin American demographics. 30% sounds like a lot, but it was a very tiny population that got overwhelmed by immigrants. There was no "one drop rule" here as in the British colonies. And again, 150 thousand black people got 7.5 million european immgrants dumped on top of them. So that explains how those genes got dilluted. Finally, that "97% identifies as white" is bullshit, that's some CIA estimate, Argentina doesn't keep tabs on the race of each citizen like you do in America or Britain. AFAIK, the national census doesn't ask about your race. Edit: Also, the first Argentine President Bernardino Rivadavia was part Black. 200 years before Obama. Seems like a big fact you ommited because it doesn't fit the narrative you are trying to create.

I am from Patagonia and 700 km from where I live there is even a town founded by Welsh people where they speak Welsh and Spanish...and at least here in the south there are no Africans only a few who are street vendors but they are not born here, they are foreigners.

Haven’t seen this many Argentinians angry with a Brit since 1982

Incredible how many people in the comments criticize my country for not having black players, accusing it of being racist. Nothing is more racist than assuming that we must have black people because we are from Latin America

I am from the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina and honestly in my life I have only seen like 2 black people in person, but that does not mean that I have problems with them, much less

Most famous Black Argentinian, but virtually unknown by most of today's music listeners; guitarist Oscar Aléman Next to the great Django Rhinehart, was the most sought after "gypsy" style swing guitarist of that generation. It's been said that the great Duke Ellington offered Aléman a small fortune to join the orchestra. I have his seminal recordings in my library, which were reissued on compact disc in the early 2000's.

Well i've lived for over 30 years in Buenos Aires and never seen a native black Argentine. In fact some people here call "black" to the typical latino skin color

Why don't iceland have any black players? Smh

because they are a NATION not a netflix movie

because we are not france or england

Why doesn’t North Korea have black players?

Simplest answer: Black population in Brazil: 6,2% pure afrodescent, 39,1% mulato, total = 45,3% Black population in Uruguay: 8,1% [2011] Black population in Argentina: 0,4% [2010]

Problemas de Latinoamérica: corrupción, delincuencia, crisis financiera Problemas de Estados Unidos: porque este latino es tan blanco?

Mira vos,salimos campeones del mundo....por tercera vez,saludos desde Argentina

Empezó la campaña para venir a sacarnos el agua

SI CREEN QUE VAN A TOCAR NUESTRO ACUÍFERO GUARANÍ ESTÁN MUY EQUIVOCADOS

maybe next topic should be why Nigeria has no Vietnamese players? Or why China has no Hispanic players? Just a thought

Why would they have black players? Black players are not commodity or ingredient. They are people. If some country does not have black people living in it, how do they get black players in national team?

65% of Argentinian’s have partial or full Italian heritage

La gente que no es latinoamericana jamás va a entender Latinoamérica (ni los propios latinos nos entendemos)

You can ask too why don't Argentina have any chinese players... simply because the percentage of italian/spanish descendants is much higher, so probability is in favor of players with last names like Batistuta and López.

Interesting vid. I love your ‘What on earth…’ series. Could you start another series along the lines ‘7 reasons why (insert country) hasn’t won the World Cup’ starting with the Netherland’s national team. Thank you.

Slight correction, Argentina abolished slavery in 1813 not 1853. In 1853 we adopted our first Constitution in which it was set into law that all people born on Argentine soil are free. And whilst the video does its best to summarize the afro-argentine experience, it's quite lacking in some areas, as for instance the understanding of race relations in Latin America in general. Let me preface this by saying that in no way am I condoning or agreeing with these statements, but they're based on the historical understanding of the time periods. Argentina, or at that time the Vice Royalty of the River Plate, was more of a backwoods hold out for the Spanish crown to hold off against French and British interests in the region. The vast majority of the Mid-Atlantic Slave Trade ended up going to Brazil (whom as a note only abolished slavery in 1888), and Argentina received a small fraction of it. I do wholeheartedly agree that after manumission was declared in 1813 the vast majority of black slaves in Argentina (or the United Provinces in that time period) were forcibly conscripted into the Liberation Armies as front-line cannon-fodder soldiers, and that's where you see the biggest dip in the Afro-Argentine population, followed by the War of the Triple Alliance. Compound to this the unfortunate decision to exterminate the Southern native tribes in what was known as the Desert Campaign of the 1860's, and the influx of European immigration that had it's peak from around the 1870's to the 1890's, and you have the perfect conditions for developing a nation that would identify strongly with its European roots than other nations in Latin America. One thing that is important to note is that the concept or race in Argentina was secondary to that of social class: call it a leftover of the Catholic Spanish way of running things, it is why the color of your skin in Argentina plays a secondary role to your place in society. And while it's true that later on Argentina had the typical view of race mainly shaped by the ideas of 19th Century Europe, there was a more sui generis approach to our understanding of it. This is why we don't distinguish our European ancestry by regionality: Spanish, Italian, German, French, Russian, Turkish, we don't have the anglocentric concept of hyphenating our national identity (ie: African-American, Italian-American, etc) and thus our views on what you would call race-relations (if you can even call it that) have a different approach than they do in the anglocentric nations. Hope this cleared up some misconceptions and I welcome any questions or discussions. :)

No entendí un choto pero, no te vamos a dar el agua del acuífero guaraní

People from english speaking countries will never understand latinmerica. They tried to force us to think like they do (hate that) we are not the US or UK our history is different and we feel different. Something that you will never understand...

After FIFA WC 2022. What a courage you have to discuss this issue. It was well delivered. Well done!!!

Tbh I got a bit worried at how you would handle this topic and I’ve got to say you did a good unbiased discussion about it Well done

Alfie, you need to make more content like this. Not only is this the most interesting football-related video I've ever watched, but also the sociopolitical side of football is always avoided. You could potentially build a different type of audience through videos like this.

this aged terribly after argentina winning 2022. next video should be "why don't mexico have any black players"?

The comment section is interesting. most did not watch the video to know why Argentina don't have black players but they are posting comments like "same reason Ghana, Nigeria, Togo don't have white players". Very strange

Do a "Why does Ecuador has so many black players?" a very interesting case as black population is not that vast in Ecuador.

"why Nigeria doesn't have any white player"

Argentina is the best country in the world, salutations from Córdoba

Most aggressive XI players with the most bookings in the top five European leagues

You already know more argentinian history than 90% of our people.

Why France never won African Cup?

It is surprising to see how many north American you tubers are suddenly so interested in knowing why there are no black players in the Argentinian football team. As it is normal north Americans know so little of the history of other American countries (hardly locating in a map Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires and still more difficult know if are located in Argentina or Brazil) that they try to apply to these countries the guidelines and parameters of USA history. 1) Argentina was located in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata .. around 4 million kmt sq. (sorry I count in kmt not miles )with no plantation economy (such as sugar or cotton) or mineral resources that needed huge slave labour. So the number of afro americans that went to Argentina was only a fraction of those going to Brazil or USA 2)Those slave mostly dedicated to domestic labour and accounted for 20/30 % of a total population of 400000 people and were freed in 1813 (3 years before the formal declaration of the independence) The constitution of 1853 only ratify the declaration of 1813 3) never existed legal discrimination against afro American’s 4) the Population increase was very small until 1875 when started the huge south European immigration that by 1910 had reached over 4 million people. These immigrants mainly poor peasants of southern Europe did not have any problem to mix with the Aboriginals population and the afro Americans ( no more then than 2/3% of the population) creating a mix ethnicity that represents today 60% of whole population and that vulgarlyar is refered to as negros 5) There has been no genocide of afro people and certainly some particular genocides of Patagonian aborigines mainly carry out by Welsh colonists. 6)So no wonder that there are no Afro-American’s players in the football team since today they represent much less than 1% of the population. However, do you have More than 50% of the so called negros which are Europeans mixed with indigenous or African blood 7) Of course in Argentina specially among the middle European elite class are stereotypes bordering racist attitude , but has nothing to do with the stratospheric explanations of the you tubers . More over the nick name Negro in the majority of cases does not imply a racist stigma. Many families have relatives with darker skin that are called NEGRO OR NEGRITO in an affectionate way. THINGS MAY LOOK THE SAME BUT ARE NOT THE SAME

Came for football, stayed for the history. Thanks for shedding light on this

I would be interested to know your opinion on which player would have won the world player of the year every year before 1956 when the ballon dor was introduced

Why european countries have Black players ? This makes no Sense,blacks are not europeans

Alfie greetings from Portugal...I adore your video's they are brilliante and Educating, BUT this one was absolutly superb thank you !

I thought it said BACK players, which would also make a valid football video

It's the same case for Croatia. Some people attacked us online claiming that we were racist for not having black people in our squad. I'm a native Croat and I spent a long time in the major centers of Croatia and I've only seen three black Croatian citizens and none of them were native Croats (born in Croatia). And we had only one non-native Croat in our squad, Eduardo da Silva, who was Brazilian.

you're taking some urban legends as fact.

Hay un error en cuando dice que Sarmiento iniicio la guerra de la Triple Alianza , fue Bartolomé Mitre en su presidencia es mas Sarmiento perdio a su hijo Dominguito en esa guerra

Well I'm from Argentina and learned something today. I consider my grandmother as openly racist, my mother would still feel uncomfotable next to a black person in bus. Me, I couldn't care less of someone's skin color. Hope the new generations erradicate racism.

You know, I never really thought about it until I clicked on this video. This is an elite KZfaq channel.

Because they aren’t a Disney film

You normally research your videos well but early on here state that Maradona was white, which is just wrong. He was of mixed indigenous and European ancestry. This background played a signifant part in his early life and is mentioned extensively in any biography of Maradona so I'm surprised you haven't come across it.

This channel, copa 90, and tifo are the only channels about that seem to actually take a deep dive into how football interacts with the world it is part of. Thank you!

I'm really proud of you as a person and the recent work you have put up, chillingly amazing - this growth can not be quantified. Thank you.

Fantastic vid Alfie great work. Using a popular platform to connect history. I hope one day your passion and hard work is recognised and you are rewarded. Great job.

Argentina doesn't really have much of a black population.

It's the Italian immigrants of Argentina that contributed a lot on it's football. Di Stefano, Zanetti and Messi are of Italian descent, among many others. Plus Argentina sent most of it's black population to Brazil.

''''''Argentina porque no juega con asiaticos? entonces los argentinos son racistas''''' lololol

Great short video of such a complex history. Thanks

Same reason why Japan has no black players

Hablan como si tuvieran que haber personas negras si o si sino estaria mal, hartos me tienen con querer imponerse en todos lados

The substitute goalkeeper for Argentina in the 1978 World Cup was black, his name is Baley. He was the last black player that the Argentine team had. Most of the black players who play in Argentina are foreigners. There are very few black and Argentine players, in the future there will surely be them and descendants of immigrants who have entered our country in recent years. Best regards.

This was well researched. I think a lot of people don’t know about this history and were wondering the same thing.

Why France Don't have any Chinese and Japanese player. Why Australia dont have indegious player.

You missed Roberto Telch who played for Argentina in the early 70s. Clearly he has Africa roots.

I love the way you speak up on so many things without bias. Big up you Alfie, you're a real one.

Amazing showpiece...keep doing what you do my brother

Here are some other ideas for next videos - why doesn’t Japan have any black players? - why doesn’t Cameroon have any Chinese players? - why doesn’t Pakistan have any European players?

One of the finest KZfaq channels.. Thanks a ton for bringing such innovative and freshening topics. Cheers.

I have a sister historian and once she's gave me that explanation about of none black people in Argentina. Excellent video! I'm Brazilian and I have to say, through the years I saw a lot of racisms cases on soccer in games against Brazilian and Argentines. I think one of my nostalgics and good memories on soccer was the Velez Sarsfield from 94. That team was fantastic! They played Boca, Cruzeiro, Palmeiras... All clubs more traditional and the players never looked nervous playing under pressure. Aways playing a really good football. After that through the years I saw so many racisms cases liked a said before and I start to desliked the argentines, overall. The last decade I think was the best years about relationship between Brazilian and Argentines. Messi aways said how the brazilians helped him on the barcelona and maybe people outside of Brazil and Argentina don't know how específic the relationship between Messi and Ronaldinho, that friendship was important for that. My Brazilian team had a great argentine player from the Velez, Lucas Pratto and in 2014 I went to Buenos Aires and one thing I did was visited the El fortin, Velez Stadium. I went there with my GALO Ronaldinho Shirt and literally everybody was talk with me, some guys was trying to buy my shirt or trading in other shirts, was crazy! The Velez Sarsfield Store, when I went there, the whole staff came to me and we was talking about football. I think was more than one hour and the guys was talking so passionate about the brazilians players and I about the argentines. They gave me a discount on shirt, gifts... One of the best days a ever and I'm not sure if that day would be possible in 10 or 15 years ago.

I am triggered why isnt there any asian players in Nigerian national team. 😂

Very informative video! Please do more videos like this that touch on topics like this.

You are wrong about the term "negro" it can mean a huge number of things depending on the context. it can have negative intent but most of the time it does not... my family in Argentina is half Arab and half Italian and they use this word all the time without any negative intentions. saying "mi negro" a lot of the time means my friend and is a very loosely used term almost like saying "dude" in the US. not only Argentinians use the word in this way. Uruguayans, Chileans, Paraguayans etc. use it as well.

In an encyclopedia as a kid I read that Argentina's slave population was absorbed into the gene pool by the influx of Europeans. And that there were a small group of slave descendants who escaped to remote regions of Argentina.

Por la misma razón que Nigeria no tiene jugadores blancos

3:00 Maradona is not white, he clearly is mixed, of Indigenous descent. Not everybody is just white or black, you probably have little knowledge of different ethnicities and appearances

Best teams never to qualify for the champions league/european cup

I can't decide what's worse, his sources or his pronunciation

Argentinos nunca cambien. Un saludo desde colombia los amo.

Next time why dont have white players in France team

NO NOS VAN A SACAR EL AGUA