According to data from the latest analysis from Remitly Global, the leading provider of digital financial services for immigrants and their families in more than 170 countries worldwide, immigrants are key players in national teams soccer nationals. Without walking further, 41% of all goals were scored The teams that qualified for this winter’s soccer tournament are first-generation immigrants or the children or grandchildren of immigrants. Furthermore, goals scored by immigrant players from different national teams were decisive for almost half of the teams (14 out of 32 participants) to qualify for the tournament. This continues the recent trend of teams with migrant players being successful in world soccer competitions.
The analysis of 661 goals scored during the qualifying matches shows that, without immigration, the schedule for the next World Cup would be very different.
Foreign-born players played a key role in securing a place for their adopted home country in the group stage, especially for teams from England and France. 82% of goals were scored during qualifying matches in England was written by immigrants, rising to 89% for the 2018 champions, France.
It is not only European teams that have been positively affected by immigration from around the world. The US, the largest destination country for international immigration, has seen 86% of its goals achieved by immigrants. In the case of Canada, 100% of goals scored of players of Caribbean, African and South American descent.
In the case of South American countries, one of the favorites before the tournament, Argentina, You can also thank immigrants for 25% of your qualifying goals, a huge contribution to reaching the tournament.
Recent history suggests that teams with immigrant players are right to be optimistic about their chances of advancing to the various stages of the championship:
● In 2018, France won the tournament in Russia with 87% immigrant players
● In 2014, Germany won Brazil with 26% of immigrants
● In 2010, Spain won South Africa with 22% immigrant players in their team
● In 2006, Italy won Germany with 13% migrants in their team
The results of this review are disclosed within the framework of Remitly’s “Strong Together” campaign, which aims to highlight how immigrants enrich our society and celebrates the enormous cultural and economic contributions that immigrants make around the world. The campaign has the support of the Migration Museum in London and will be presented in digital media and in the forums of the underground network of the English capital this autumn.
Other highlights of Remitly’s review on influence of immigrant goals show that:
● More than 86% of Belgium’s goals were scored by immigrants, who scored an additional eight points thanks to them.
● The Netherlands got nine extra points thanks to immigrant goals, with 27 of their 33 goals scored by immigrants.
● Australia’s qualification was decided by penalties, three of the five penalty kicks were scored by immigrants.
● Poland is another team that has a history of having foreign players. The award for the best player in the Polish national team since 2014 went to an immigrant and the goals scored by immigrants (43%) contributed significantly to Poland’s qualification for next fall’s tournament.
● In the case of Switzerland, 53% of the goals that led them to qualify were scored by immigrants.
Source: La Verdad
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