QUOTE="Ra's Al-Ghul, post: 20296711, member: 108619"]Did you know that Zinedine Zidane was born in Algeria? Wasn't he a French national player? And he was some decades after Cerdan, when Algeria was indeed a French colony (till 1959 at least).[/QUOTE] Was Zindane born in Europe? Yes or No? FYI. Being a French colony does not make you a part of Europe, Stop press! Algeria is part of the continent of Africa. The seven continents are.Africa,North America,South America,Antartica,Australia,Europe.
My favourite? Dundee who? Fitzsimmons was born in England which is part of Europe. Now I think I've indulged you enough, its time to turn my attention back to normal people.
Zinedine Zidane was born and raised in Marseille in Southern France and was the son of Algerian immigrants.
French Algeria (French: Alger to 1839, then Algérie afterwards;[1] unofficially Algérie française,[2][3] Arabic: الجزائر المستعمرة, also known as Colonial Algeria, was the colonial rule of France over Algeria. French rule in the region began in 1830 with the invasion of Algiers and lasted until the Algerian War of Independence concluded in 1962. While the administration of Algeria changed significantly over the 132 years of French rule, the Mediterranean coastal region of Algeria, housing the vast majority of its population, was administered as an integral part of France from 1848 until independence.
He was, but of French parents. He was as much French as George Orwell was English, even though one of them was born in Algeria and the other in India.
I don’t know what the issue is here. It’s pretty simple, the OP asks fighters actually born in Europe. It doesn’t matter that Algeria was once a department of France geographically it’s in Africa, it has never been part of Europe it’s on the African continent. Agenda’s.
Ive read all Orwell's books but I don't recall him ever boxing. If anyone doesnt like my criteria they are at perfect liberty to abstain from participating in my thread. We are I believe a democratic forum?
Jaysus, what can't people understand McVey is looking for the top 10 boxers born on the geographical location known as Europe. Not what nationality they are, or what country their parents or great grand parents came from. Not the colonies of the European powers. Not the boxers belonging to parents who decided to move to Europe when the young boxerling was 18 months old, 4 days old or 15 years old. Not any boxers who hold 17 passports for 17 different European countries, but were born on the continent of North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australasia or Antartica. Only boxers who were born within the border of the Ural mountians, Caucasus Mountians, Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic Ridge. Europe.
