Athleticism is not the issue here. Football IQ and technique is. Spain were possibly the most unathletic (aside from perhaps stamina) national team I have ever witnessed dominate but they completely and utterly dominated Football from 2008-2013, crushed everybody, no one could figure it out.
So if people are calling for more black players I hope it's to instill in them and in fact, place a higher standard on technique and football IQ than athleticism. And the sum of their argument isn't "black people are more athletic"
Because athleticism is not the issue here. You don't win a World Cup or become a Football juggernaut by putting most of your stats on Athletics at the Character Creation Screen.
I know this because every time I played with a black player who was fast he was put on the wing and told to cross the ball, the problem was he didn't know how to cross, he didn't have the technique. Moreover, he often times couldn't dribble he just used pace and sheer speed to get pass the defender and was clueless after that. Best black players were the AM's and CM's, the East Africans with amazing technique who could dribble circles around you and send precision like throughballs.
This assumption hurts, not helps black kids chances to succeed in the sport.
-Martial
-Mbappe
-Dembele
-Sane
These are all athletic black players, but they are tempered by godlike technique.
Another problem is these dumbass coaches, I swear to almighty god, I know Football better than they do.