Oh! Gonzalo! Rejection Hurts!!

Everything will be fine. We can afford to spot the argies one of our players considering our depth.

Have to agree about the sissy baby blue in their uniform, not very intimidating.

Allez

look who is crying now, hahahahahahahaha, you are crying so loud that you got in to name calling hahahahahaha, calling us sluts hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ohhh gosh someone please stop me from dying, i am laughing to hard. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

Posted from  United States

not even our leftovers wanna play in france?

im argentinian and i liked france this world cup

but for real have some pride taking from other countries is not authentic

fab……. Just a quick factual correction to your post. Higuain is French.

I would save your sympathy for the Argentine NT. In the last three world cups France has a Championship and second place finish, success that Argentina can only dream of.

Allez

Fab, please dont wast a breath on this luca guy, he is obviously dilusional, Argentina WON not one, but two world cups, they were runners up twice, they would have won a back to back WC had it not for FIFA in 1990.

Posted from  United States

Nooo! As much as it hurts to be so rejected, I have to admit your post made me laugh enough to get over it.

Don’t worry, he’ll come around.

Posted from  Canada

No wonder Gonzalo’s father was telling him to play for his country France.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2JOzWl2×3w

allez

Ps…fair wake up and smell the new millennium. Get out of the past man it’s unhealthy, going back to 86 and 78 ? Loser talk. (78 and 86 are disputed and haven’t been recognized as legitimate victories) FIFA conspiracy theories? Big time loser talk.

Get off the Argentine train to nowhere while you still can. Pledge allegiance to France and feel what it’s like to be a winner for a change. If you can’t then stay on the delusional argie blogs where they discuss how great lol their teams are that consistently lose lol very badly.

Allez

hey luca like i said historically

argentina is better

4 final apperances with 2 wins

france has 2 final apperances with 1 win

so wake up and smell reality

message for fair:
dude he also turned down argentina

Posted from  Canada

Sam, he hasnt turned down argentina, he previously turned down the chance to play for the Argentina under 20 team, because if he did he would automatically lose his chance of playing for france, he wanted some time think about it, then he got a call to actually play for France and he turned it down. he hasnt been called for argentina yet, and in all honesty i dont see him being called any time soon. he would have to play for the under 20 or 21 team before he could play for the national team. to be honest, i dont think it is that big of a deal to me, as for argentina we have too many young guns that are actually proving themselves, aguero, palacio, tevez and so on, then we have the usual strikers in crespo, milito, cruz, saviola, and so on.

so you guys say that if you are born in a certain country than you should play there no matter how long you spend in another?

then i guess zidane should have played for algeria?

and trez for argentina?

and all those african born players?

so um any french players on the french NT?

fab….fab……. Just a quick factual correction to your post. Zidane and Trez are French.

and that’s right you play for the country your born in. I can understand why Argentina goes player poaching since it’s been over 20 years since they achieved any notable success.

Allez

Curry, hi and welcome! Come back and bring reinforcements.

Argentina fans? That whole “slut” thing? Of course I meant that with the HIGHEST possible level of respect.

(Geez, guys, lighten up!):-)

Posted from  United States

so i guess anyone you say is french is french then …. oh pls bud

the kid dont even speak french
besides today he sayed he will wait for argentina

i like the french national team tho
(aka leftovers united)

To Fab and others argentinians fans,

First, unlike many countries, the french law for the nationality is the “right of soil” and not the “right of blood” like in Germany before the 2nd WW. It means ” each person who was born in France is french, without any exception.

Two, Gonzalo Higuain has only the french nationality and has not the argentinian one. It means if Domenech was be a bad guy he could easily punish him for his rejection.

Three, the father and the agent of Gonzalo have made publicity about the fact Gonzalo is french which made french people and Domenech thought that he wanted to play for France. May be his father (a former Brest player,who speak a perfect french) was sincere or may be he handled french media to make advertising on the child ’s career.

Four, Gonzalo is under the influence of Passarela the River plate manager who is a good friend of Basile.

Five, even if he would had accepted the invitation, Gonzalo stil could play for Argentina. Because until he ’s 21 old, he can play in all unofficial match he wants. Domenech just wanted to see him to know how good he is and what he wanted to do.

… Final ….Many speculations are possible:
-Gonzalo wants to play for France but he think he’s too young and he’s afraid of the argentinians’reaction.(he still play in River Plate).
-Gonzalo want to play for France but he’s afraid to play during the cold month of november with unknowns who don’t speak his language.(even if some players or staff members speak spanish).
-Gonzalo hasn’t made his choice yet.
-Him and his father want to take advantage of the french nationality, and the french advertising to push Basile to call him, but never wanted him to play for France.

As a french fan i dream one day he play for France, because i like very much the idea of a world team nation. He’s probably a very good player formed in Argentina like Trezeguet, may be better, with argentinian skill, if he can play 3/4 foward it could be perfect. For him it would be better to play for France, where he has serious chance to become an enormous star, instead Argentina where he would be a foward among a lot. When i see what the argentinians did to Riquelme or the Brasilians with Juninho… If you don’t want such talents give us them, we do something with them.

Posted from  France

Thiery , I actually respect you because you had some good and valid points. I respect views like that. people who argue because they have truth behind it and not in blind bias as some do. Either way, i hope the guy plays for Argentina, Argentina is who raised him, and he if plays for argentina great for him, great for us, if he doesnt ohh well. We will still be better.

Posted from  United States

“We will still be better.” Since when have the Argies been better? 2006? 2002? 1998?

Fab just do a google check before you claim someone is not French, it’s pretty easy to do.

You don’t think someone is French even if their born there? How long are you required to have your citizenship in order to be considered a “true” citizen? Is it 1 month, 1 year, 10 years, 100 years or more? Is that what you would like to do have different classes of citizens? A citizen is a citizen with full rights whether they live in their country of birth 1 day or are 10th generation.

With regards to heritage and where some ones ancestry is from it seems bizarre to me that someone from Argentina would have a problem with this. Those last names on Argentina NT seem obviously of Spanish, Italian and French background. Do any of these countries (or have I) ever made an argument that they are not true Argentineans? No.

So if you think the French NT in composed of anything but Frenchmen I suggest to re-evaluate your thinking. Or in turn focus your attention to the Argentine NT and ask the same question.

Allez

Luca, don’t be too proud of including 2002 in your argument.
The cold truth is that the only team that performed worse than Argentina at that time, was us.

Posted from  United States

Thierry, great summary of events.

People forget that Trezeguet didn’t speak French when he came over either. (Although he didn’t leap immediately onto the national team. I think that’s what bothers people the most.)

I’m curious to see what will happen with Higuain in February for the France-Argentina game. I’m somehow having a hard time imagining Domenech calling him up again this soon. I think he’s going to make him wait awhile to teach him a lesson.

Argentina fans, do you think there’s a chance that your team will call him up for that game?

Posted from  United States

Some interesting stuff here, I am the guy that posts on the Argentina blog, just a quick answer to Laurie since you are the writer on this blog.

“do you think there is a chance that your team will call him up”??? well, at this time I doubt it. I was really stunned to see the french calling him for the NT team, this guy was a reserve player 6 months ago. He is a sure talent, has all the physical strength to be a true #9, I dont know if the French NT team really needed to secure him or just needed a striker, but i didnt think he was ready to be called.

I dont see Basile calling Gonzalo to the NT team any time soon, there are too many players infront of him around his age, I mean think of Palacio, Aguero, Cavenaghi, Lopez, and most importantly Milito who are performing at a higher level than him, so it is a long shot for him to see the blue and white at this point. I think he will get called for the under 20 team, this will be the perfect time for him to prove his value playing along side Aguero. hope that helped.

Posted from  United States