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I’ve never considered why Argentina’s national team has never had any Black players, at least in my lifetime, and compared to its South American neighbours like Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile.
Whilst neighbouring Uruguay and Brazil have had plenty of black footballers, including their greatest players of all time in the forms of Pele and Jose Andrade, the same cannot be said for Argentina.
Despite sharing a similar colonial past to their near neighbours, Argentina’s black population is a fraction of the nation’s around them, and following a question from a subscriber during the 2018 World Cup, HITC Sevens takes a look at why that is the case.
- Governments treating Black enslaved people like shit and that behaviour and attitude continuing for centuries after it was abolished
- A smaller population of Black people in comparison to other countries on the continent (Afro-Argentines, for example, accounted for 0.37% of Argentina’s population as of the 2010 census). This means an even lower chance of any Black players making their way through the ranks and making a name for themselves in order to get selected alongside possible racial bias amongst scouts and officials
I hope this will change in the future but I hope Black lives will start to matter more in Argentina first.
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