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Euro 2021: more than fifty players of African origin!

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More than fifty footballers of African descent are currently participating in the European Championships, not to mention the Afro-British, from Martinique, Cayenne, Guyana and Suriname. DR Congo is the country on the black continent with the most foreign players, 12 in total. Nigeria comes second with 5 original players, ahead of Mali (4).

Among the players selected to participate in Euro 2021, several of them have African roots and are key elements of their team, such as Franco-Malian N’Golo Kanté, the best player in the final of the last League. of the European champions, won by Chelsea. for Manchester City (1-0). But also the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, whose paternal great-grandmother is Cape Verdean. Just like the new “Zlatan Ibrahimovic” from Sweden, the young Alexander Isak, from Eritrea.

French Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema is the only player of Algerian origin to participate in this competition. But Kylian Mbappé, who has an Algerian mother named Fayza Lamari, could have played with the Algerian Fennecs, as well as the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon, the country of origin of his father Wilfried Mbappé. Morocco also has an indigenous actor. This is Nacer Chadli, who defends the colors of the Belgian Red Devils.

France has the largest “African contingent” of this European Nations Championship in its workforce with 12 players, followed by Belgium (8) and Switzerland (7). On the other hand, DR Congo could have teamed up with its original players, defending the colors of other European countries (12), ahead of Nigeria (5 original players). Mali closes the third step of the podium in this ranking with 4 original players, ahead of Ghana and Cameroon (3).

These players who use the CAN. could play

RD Congo (12)

Steve Mandanda (France / Marseille)

Presnel Kimpembe (France / PSG)

Romelu Lukaku (Belgique/Inter Milan)

Jason Marianne Denayer (Belgium / Lyon)

Dedryck Boyata (Belgique / Hertha Berlin)

Michy Batshuayi (Belgium / Crystal Palace)

Youri Tielemans (Belgium/Leicester City)

Christian Benteke (Belgium / Crystal Palace)

Kevin Mbabu (Switzerland / Wolfsburg)

Jordan Lotomba (Switzerland / Nice)

Denis Zakaria (Switzerland / Mönchengladbach)

Ken Nlata Sema (Sweden / Watford)

Nigeria (5)

Manuel Akanji (Switzerland / Dortmund)

Jamal Musiala (Germany / Bayern)

David Alaba (Austria / Bayern Munich)

Karim Onisiwo (Austria / SV Mainz)

Bukayo Saka (England/Arsenal)

Mali (4)

Adama Traoré (Spain / Wolverhampton)

Moussa Sissoko (France/Tottenham)

N’Golo Kanté (France / Chelsea)

Ousmane Dembélé (France / FC Barcelona)

Ghanaian (3)

Jeremy Doku (Belgium / Rennes)

Memphis Depay (Netherlands / Lyon)

Ethan Kwame Ampadu (Wales / Chelsea)

Cameroon (3)

Yvon Mvogo (Switzerland / PSV)

Breel Embolo (Switzerland / Mönchengladbach)

Kylian Mbappé (France / PSG)

Senegal (2)

Leroy Sane (Germany / Bayern)

Djibril Sow (Switzerland / Frankfurt)

Ivory Coast (2)

Serge Gnabry (Germany / Bayern)

Nathan Benjamin Ake (Pays-Bas / Manchester City)

Togo (2)

Cody Mathès Gakpo (Netherlands / PSV)

Corentin Tolisso (France / Bayern)

Cape Verde (2)

Nelson Semedo (Portugal / Wolves)

Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal / Juventus)

Angola (2)

William Carvalho (Portugal/Betis)

Benjamin Cabango (Wales / Swansea)

Sierra Leone (2)

Antonio Rudiger (Germany / Chelsea)

Glen Adjei Kamara (Finlande/Rangers)

Morocco (1)

Nacer Chadli (Belgium / Basaksehir)

Algeria (1)

Karim Benzema (France/Real Madrid)

Benin (1)

Jules Koundé (France / Sevilla FC)

Tunisia (1)

Wissam Ben Yedder (France / Monaco)

Central African Republic (1)

Kurt Happy Zouma (France/Chelsea)

Guinea (1)

Paul Pogba (France/Manchester United)

Guinea-Bissau (1)

Danilo Pereira (Portugal/PSG)

Sao Tome (1)

Renato Sanches (Portugal / Lille)

Eritrea (1)

Alexander Isak (Suède / Real Sociedad)

Namibia (1)

Pyry Soiri (Finland / Esbjerg)

Tanzania (1)

Yussuf Yurary Poulsen (Denmark / RB Leipzig)

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