{"id":43467,"date":"2021-07-14T18:27:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=43467"},"modified":"2021-07-14T17:57:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T15:57:02","slug":"only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england","title":{"rendered":"Only 4 Players In Euro 2020 Have Parents Born In England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By Staff Reporter\/Agencies<\/b> – ONLY four players in the starting line-up of Sunday\u2019s final Euro 2020 against Italy have parents and grandparents who were all born in the UK.<\/p>\n

As England football manager Gareth Southgate suggests, his Euro 2020 team sparked a sense of national pride and unity that runs deeper than the temporary heartbreak caused by Sunday\u2019s failed penalty shootout.<\/p>\n

But the racist abuse that followed has been depressing \u2013 particularly those who had fallen in love with the team for the first time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought I\u2019d be cheering on England, not ever. But here I am,\u201d Binta Williams told BBC\u2019s Radio 1 Newsbeat.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old student from Manchester normally wouldn\u2019t care about English football \u2013 but says she felt \u201cso proud\u201d of the Euros squad that she\u2019s become \u201csomewhat patriotic\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team come from so many backgrounds and a lot are people of colour, like Raheem Sterling. I\u2019m Jamaican, he\u2019s Jamaican,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatching him smash it for England, the feeling\u2019s just like \u2013 wow.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than half of the 26 players in the Euro 2020 squad have at least one parent or grandparent born outside the UK, according to the Migration Museum.<\/p>\n

That includes Bukayo Saka, whose parents are Nigerian, Jadon Sancho, whose mum and dad are from Trinidad and Tobago \u2013 and Marcus Rashford, whose grandma lived on the Caribbean island of St Kitts.<\/p>\n

All three players received racist abuse on social media after not scoring their penalties in the shootout on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just embarrassing as a country that fans behave in that way,\u201d Binta says.<\/p>\n

She feels it\u2019s driven a wedge in the national unity Southgate spoke of.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think we\u2019re making progress as a country all coming together \u2013 and then we lose and it\u2019s back to square one,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Binta says in the past she\u2019s not wanted to wave the England flag, because of its negative connotations.<\/p>\n

The flag, which bears the cross of England\u2019s patron saint, St George, was adopted by far-right groups in the 1970s. It\u2019s since been associated with racial tension and white nationalism.<\/p>\n

Some 28% of white 18-24s and 25% of ethnic minority 18-24s say they see the flag as a negative symbol of nationalism, even during sporting tournaments, a 2021 survey by research group British Future found.<\/p>\n

These percentages are much lower among older people.<\/p>\n

But Binta says the current England squad have helped change how she feels.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the first time, I\u2019m proud of this country,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Cameron Cole, 27, says the \u201cdisgusting\u201d abuse of Saka, Sancho and Rashford shows there is \u201cstill a very long way to go\u201d to tackle racism in football.<\/p>\n

But having faced racist abuse himself, Cameron says the aftermath of Sunday\u2019s game means the team represents him \u201cnow more than ever\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had experiences before where I\u2019ve had to speak out about it and seeing these stars do the same thing, it qualifies me more to do it in any circumstance, in employment or anywhere else,\u201d he tells Newsbeat.<\/p>\n

The Arsenal fan, from south London, says the fact many of Southgate\u2019s players are from similar neighbourhoods and ethnic minorities as him makes him feel \u201ca lot more comfortable\u201d cheering on nation than he used to do.<\/p>\n

Racism in football \u2013 and society, is nothing new. But it\u2019s a particularly sad end to the tournament given how vocal the team have been in their fight for equality \u2013 as shown by their joint decision to take the knee at the beginning of every game.<\/p>\n

Despite some critics, the team never wavered in their gesture, which has had Southgate\u2019s full support.<\/p>\n

In a public letter to the nation published by the Players\u2019 Tribune in June, Southgate said his players have a \u201cduty\u201d to speak up on issues such as equality, inclusivity and racial injustice \u201cwhile using the power of their voices to help put debates on the table, raise awareness and educate\u201d.<\/p>\n

Southgate added that the pride each of his players have in representing their country \u201ccannot be questioned\u201d.<\/p>\n

But as suggested by Binta, national pride doesn\u2019t always come easily in England.<\/p>\n

Some 61% of people who describe themselves as white are proud to declare their English identity, but among ethnic minorities, it is just 32%, according to a BBC survey from 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. By Staff Reporter\/Agencies – ONLY four players in the starting line-up of Sunday\u2019s final Euro 2020 against Italy have parents and grandparents who were all born in the UK. As England football manager Gareth Southgate suggests, his Euro 2020 team sparked a sense of national pride and unity that runs deeper than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,16,15],"tags":[1493,2189,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-43467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-sport","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\nOnly 4 Players In Euro 2020 Have Parents Born In England - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Staff Reporter\/Agencies - ONLY four players in the starting line-up of Sunday\u2019s final Euro 2020 against Italy ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Only 4 Players In Euro 2020 Have Parents Born In England\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Staff Reporter\/Agencies - ONLY four players in the starting line-up of Sunday\u2019s final Euro 2020 against Italy ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-14T16:27:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-07-14T15:57:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/07\/img-60ef0929486d9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england\",\"name\":\"Only 4 Players In Euro 2020 Have Parents Born In England - zimbabwe\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/07\/img-60ef0929486d9.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-14T16:27:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-07-14T15:57:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\"},\"description\":\"By Staff Reporter\/Agencies - ONLY four players in the starting line-up of Sunday\u2019s final Euro 2020 against Italy ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/07\/img-60ef0929486d9.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/07\/img-60ef0929486d9.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":450,\"caption\":\"Only 4 Players In Euro 2020 Have Parents Born In England\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Only 4 Players In Euro 2020 Have Parents Born In England\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/\",\"name\":\"zimbabwe\",\"description\":\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Only 4 Players In Euro 2020 Have Parents Born In England - zimbabwe","description":"By Staff Reporter\/Agencies - ONLY four players in the starting line-up of Sunday\u2019s final Euro 2020 against Italy ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Only 4 Players In Euro 2020 Have Parents Born In England","og_description":"By Staff Reporter\/Agencies - ONLY four players in the starting line-up of Sunday\u2019s final Euro 2020 against Italy ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england","og_site_name":"zimbabwe","article_published_time":"2021-07-14T16:27:42+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-07-14T15:57:02+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":450,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/07\/img-60ef0929486d9.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england","name":"Only 4 Players In Euro 2020 Have Parents Born In England - zimbabwe","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/07\/img-60ef0929486d9.jpg","datePublished":"2021-07-14T16:27:42+00:00","dateModified":"2021-07-14T15:57:02+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4"},"description":"By Staff Reporter\/Agencies - ONLY four players in the starting line-up of Sunday\u2019s final Euro 2020 against Italy ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/07\/img-60ef0929486d9.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/07\/img-60ef0929486d9.jpg","width":800,"height":450,"caption":"Only 4 Players In Euro 2020 Have Parents Born In England"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/only-4-players-in-euro-2020-have-parents-born-in-england#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Only 4 Players In Euro 2020 Have Parents Born In England"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/","name":"zimbabwe","description":"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631 \u064a\u0648\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0645\u062f\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0627\u0639\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/2e02b5816e71b1149d79877f669a85e4","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}