There is no quota in pt obviously, and I remember when the first black players started to appear in the national team, I think in early 2000s, many people got racist about it, as in āwhat is this team? Angola or Cape Verde?ā
which I always found ironic because before Ronaldo our most iconic football player is someone black that was not even from Portugal (Eusebio, from Mozambique, which was Portuguese at that time but letās be real, it was a colony), and people loved (and love) him like a god (heās buried in our āheroes templeā in Lisbon together with kings and navigators).
I think this is also because although we have a big black community, theyāre concentrated in suburbs of Lisbon alone mostly (in my home town actually) so the rest of the country still finds it difficult to see it as normal.
but I have to recognize that nowadays is much better, there are still those racism dudes , but less than before, I think.