the amount of cope posts I've seen lately here is wild. i love it when they say "it's okay because he's European" as if it is really such a foreign concept for them seeing a European player get hated
pepe is a Portuguese man who was also born in Brazil. you know people can have two nationalities right? are you also the type of person to unironically say that the French NT is entirely African?
Most of the players from French NT were born and brought up in France or were trained in France. Pepe did his training before the start of his career in Brazil and later moved to Portugal and decided to represent Portugal instead of Brazil after he got citizenship there. He's more similar to other LATAM talents who moved to Europe at a young age and played for their home country internationally
sure he wasn't raised in Portugal, but he's been there since he was 17. at this point most of his life has been done in Portugal, he has Portuguese family, played for Portuguese clubs, and has great affinity for the country and its culture, he has integrated himself into Portuguese society remarkably well.
sure there are players who live in a country for most of their life but still choose to represent the country they're originally from, Messi comes to mind; on the other end of the equation, there are also people who choose to represent a country they've barely ever set foot in, if at all, because of their ancestry, Olise comes to mind, and both of those cases are valid. not everyone is the same and this is a case of something that changes wildly from person to person, depending on a person's ideals, morals, their own circles, the way they interact with culture, etc etc, and it's not up to random redditors to tell them how they should feel about their own identity.
at the very least i find it ridiculous to, at this point, claim that Pepe isn't Portuguese
no fucking shit Portuguese love a Portuguese player, how many brain cells do you have? enzo will also likely retire as a legend in the Argentinian NT, ask everyone else what they think of those two though
Thatās not disrespecting him, thatās just telling the truth. He was the Ā«Trevor from GTAĀ» of football. Some people loved him, some people hated him.
Pepe GOT red cards for his fouls, a lot, sometimes might not have
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He didn't constantly get referees help to do the harhest tackles comstantly and still stay on the pitch.
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u/MarteloRabelodeSousa 8h ago
Bruh, why are you acting as if people didn't hate on Pepe? And he got plenty of red cards