Women's football & diversity in the England team | BBC Sport

BBC Sport's Miriam Walker-Khan explores the ethnic diversity within the England women's football team.

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Women's football & diversity in the England team | BBC Sport

[tomjarrett]

Of the 23 players in the squad at Euro 2022, 3 were black which is 13%. The black population of England is 3.5%. How can you say black players aren’t represented?

[euphoria]

Heaven knows why players should be picked for talent and not the colour of their skin. 😊

[joannegriffiths]

Why are they ignoring the fact that Paris, James, Stokes, Carter, Salmon, all play. This is ridiculous. You’re picked for your talent!

[fatknacker]

It's about talent. If you're good enough you should be playing, stop banging the diversity drum when these players WON the Euro's. If they filled the team with diverse players, who's betting it still wouldn't be enough...

[alexi.]

Damn, the United Kingdom really has an obsession and a fetish when it comes to skin colour. Apart from the US, I've never seen a country where such an emphasis is placed on such an irrelevant thing in the context of sport. "Yeah, you've won the Euros, but you're too... white" or "We should look past skin colour, the only thing that matters is how good you are. But we want 25% of our starting line-up to be black". They straight up admitted that professionalism can be sacrificed in the name of diversity. Imagine being an airline passenger only to find out at 30 000 ft that your pilot was hired for diversity. How are these people not realising that they're the ones who make everything about race...

[KingFahtah]

How diverse was the men's team when they actually won something? I have seen some African teams that are completely black it's so racist.

[TonyMontanaDS]

Where is the video about the lack of diversity in African teams?

[scousersuk]

do we need diversity in long distance running sports? yeah I can imagine that is not something you want to talk about right? no, because they are talented people it does not matter what skin colour they are.

[walincoln]

Literally can never be happy, especially from Walker-Khan

[penaltygallery]

Don't remember this being an issue when there were (still are) no players of Asian origin in the squad 🤔🤔

[SatanicBeard]

It’s a competitive sport, that’s the beginning and end of it. The colour of someone’s skin should only be a concern if they are being refused opportunities because of it, there has been no evidence of anything like that in this instance. To refuse someone else an opportunity they’ve earned to try and meet some arbitrary diversity benchmark is racist itself.

[giodhuha]

So Gareth Southgate is better than Sarina Wiegman in terms of players call-up just from the side of sustain diversity.

[Doncorleone]

This is complete bs, should we play a full mixed race squad that aren’t the best players just to keep the work brigade happy

[royalegamer]

Notice british sports doesn't have any british asian brown male models on any of their teams, adverts or posters. British asians population are 9 million biggest non-white population in the country. Yet i never seen they been represented by this countries sports organisations. Strange! Wheres the diversity and representation? 😏

[Kentish]

LOL good old BBC, never miss an oppotunity to be woke for woke's sake

[GIBBO]

This a re-post! Must not have agreed with the comments last time, so they’ve tried again! 🤣

[Angenga]

If it was really about "representation" then they would be fine with the 2 black girls in the 23 player squad for the euros, proportionally speaking that is an OVER-representation of the true number of the black population of England (by nearly 3 times)

[motey]

The England team isn't meant to be diverse it's meant to be english

[zoranblackie]

Feels like a lot of people are missing the point... noone is suggesting picking people based on race ahead of talent, its just indicative that there are potential barriers to access to the grass-roots and route to the top of the football pyramid. So if some of the best potential is not maximised, we're missing a trick... COME ON ENGLAND!

[rachelcarre]

This ain’t true. They’re picked because of how good they are not because of the colour of their skin. 😅