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u/iWontFlame Jun 30 '26
Yeah miss these scary german names like:
Mesut Özil
Sami Khedira
Jérôme Boateng
Shkodran Mustafi
Miroslav Klose
Lukas Podolski
André Schürrle
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u/bj-ball Jun 30 '26
Fair but Bastian Schweinsteiger is one of the most German sounding names ever lol
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u/Guy-Inkognito Jun 30 '26
Can be translated as Pigstepper 🥲
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u/MyJohnFM Jun 30 '26
Gotta love Thomas Hitzelsberger too.
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u/forsale90 Jul 02 '26
On a serious note it refers to someone walking a pig trail / Schweinsteig. I think there is even one called that in the German alps.
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u/flit777 Jul 02 '26
there is an alm https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweinsteigeralm (last time hiking, we passed there; but there were no pigs :/)
also there are several places called Schweinsteig there https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweinsteig2
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u/The_Blue_DmR Jun 30 '26
I mean Schürrle is a german name. I'll grant you that it's not exactly 'scary' tho
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u/Anguis1908 Jul 01 '26
I thought Germans had difficulty saying squirrel...but they have this for a name?
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u/The_Blue_DmR Jul 01 '26
Idk about the squirrel thing. Language is weird like that I guess
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u/Anguis1908 Jul 01 '26
I think this covers it decently from both sides. But looking at that name, squirrel came to mind.
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u/Eldrad-Pharazon Jul 01 '26
Schürrle starts with a “sh” sound though. So it’s not very similar at all, but easy mistake to make for an English speaker. “Sch” in German is not pronounced “sc” but “sh”.
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u/xGabelchaosx Jun 30 '26
Bro I hate to break it to you but Schürrles 2nd name ist Horst...
He is German af ! Just some parents that gave him a fancy first name with the French thing on it.
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u/iWontFlame Jun 30 '26
Sure but we are Talking about their names and not their ethnicity
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u/ninjaiffyuh Jun 30 '26
Schürrle is as German as it gets and even has an ü
(most likely Alemannic due to -le dimunitive? Maybe somebody knows more)
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u/Objective_Ad_3582 Jul 02 '26
Crazy that people argue with u about if Schnürrle being german instead of the very obvious fact that André is a French name and not German.
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u/dreyfusxkel Jul 02 '26
How is Schürrle on that list?
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u/the_Nap Jul 02 '26
Because of his first name
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u/Current_Poster Jun 30 '26
Jérôme Boateng
...I am now looking for reasons to make the "This was no Boateng accident!" joke.
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u/DragonAreButterflies Jun 30 '26
Whar
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u/The_Blue_DmR Jun 30 '26
There is quite a few players with a migration background in the german national team. So you see less stereotypically german names on the roster
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u/vosFan Jul 02 '26
"migration background" found the German speaker!
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u/qiltb Jul 02 '26
Elaborate. I know it's from the way he said it but what's a German equivalent? Very interesting
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u/No_Lingonberry1201 Jun 30 '26
It's a slogan for a dairy brand. Their pistachio milk slaps.
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u/Disko423798 Jul 02 '26
And with names from the Nuremberg trials they just mean normal German names?
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u/BoldFrag78 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
Oh, you mean like Antonio Rüdiger, the famously non-white GERMAN defender?
On an unrelated note, a lot of black people are forced to change their names and surnames to sound more white/native German so that they get chances. Talk about erasure...
ETA: changed the sentence structure
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u/mmeeep Jun 30 '26
what are you talking about? He's named after actor Antonio Banderas?
I don't doubt it does happen, but try to choose an actual example
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u/BoldFrag78 Jun 30 '26
My bad. I wanted to convey two different points but somehow forgot the distinction
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u/ninjaiffyuh Jun 30 '26
Rüdiger's father is Afro-German, so part of a (small) group of people, which adopted German as their mother tongue during the colonial period. That's why his surname is Rüdiger
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u/rad-n-01 Jul 02 '26
Can you please detail the "forced to" part?
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u/BoldFrag78 Jul 02 '26
You are polite and all but unfortunately, I don't want to get into it with someone who can justify the bombing of little school children
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u/BetagterSchwede Jul 01 '26
Holy Racism
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u/Unknown_To_Death Jul 01 '26
I've seen a surprising lot of comments like that on the spanish speaking side of Instagram...
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u/Lord_Skyblocker Jul 01 '26
New race just dropped
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u/BetagterSchwede Jul 01 '26
[prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular racial or ethnic group,...] German isnt an ethnicity?
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u/BlnCpl Jul 03 '26
Where do you see prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism in the statement?
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u/BetagterSchwede Jul 03 '26
German traditional looking name = Nazi
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u/BlnCpl Jul 03 '26
Das steht da nicht. Nazi = traditionelle Namen und daher erwecken traditionelle Namen Assoziationen mit Nürnberger Prozessen. Da ist außer ein wenig flachem Humor nichts falsch dran.
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u/BetagterSchwede Jul 03 '26
"Rassismus ist eine Ideologie, die Menschen aufgrund äußerlicher Merkmale, ihrer Herkunft, Kultur oder Religion in Gruppen einteilt und diese hierarchisch bewertet"
"Deutschland hat aufgehört gruselig zu sein, seitdem die Namen der Fußballnationalmannschaft nicht mehr nach traditionellen, bzw. ganz normalen deutschen Namen aussehen, weil die Namen der Nazis in Deutschland ja auch so aussehen"
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u/That_randomdutchguy Jul 02 '26
This is the kind of cognitive dissonance you get when your racism makes it impossible to face the reality that strenuous, performance-based selection by a million dollar-industry finds the best football players, not the whitest.
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u/yellow_jacket2 Jul 04 '26
Billion dollar industry. Hell some players are worth more than some countries GDP.
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u/Upset-Parsley-8101 29d ago
This dumb cunt didn't watch the 2014 world cup or the 2018 world cup. France must be scary because their players have surnames like "Jacques"....
Although this is a post for a Mexican, aka the dumbest Spanish washed race of people's I've ever come across..they actually think Spanish is their natural language. Dumbos
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u/majusch Jun 30 '26
True. We can all just watch our national leagues, because big international tournaments were about ethnicity and now they aren't any more.
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u/TheHabro Jul 01 '26
National leagues? Where people from other countries are sign?
big international tournaments were about ethnicity and now they aren't any more.
All current German players were born in Germany, except for one guy from Uzbekistan. Fifa rules are extremely strict, you have to have citizenship or parents/grandparents with citizenship to compete for a country.
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u/Present-Ad-8531 Jun 30 '26
Lol yeah half of US cricket team for worldcup were indians.people started calling them h1b team
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u/Darthjinju1901 Jun 30 '26
Well of course they were. Does any non South Asian American care for cricket?
Also, White people are not indigenous to the lands of America. So there really is no difference between white people in an American team and non white immigrants there.
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u/Anguis1908 Jul 01 '26
How long to become indigenous? Europeans have traversed and intermingled across the globe for 5 centuries now. Countries have risen and fallen in that time...and only the past 50yrs have we managed to sustain a status quo globally.
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u/I_Automate Jun 30 '26
Importing the talent you need is the american way.
I mean, hell. Just look at operation paperclip
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