Africa News of Saturday, 12 June 2021
Source: goal.com
No African country in real sense will be present at the ongoing Euro 2020 tournament in Italy.
Except that, persons with African ancestry will line up for different European countries.
France for example has as many as 11 out of their 23 players with links to Africa with the likes of N'Golo Kante (Mali), Benzema and Mbappe (Algeria).
List of African countries and their European players:
#1 Algeria
Karim Benzema (France), Kylian Mbappe (France)
#2 Angola
Valentino Lazaro (Austria), William Carvalho (Portugal), Nuno Mendes (Portugal), Ben Cabango (Wales), Jordan Lotomba (Switzerland)
#3 Benin
Jules Kounde (France)
#4 Guinea-Bissau
Danilo (Portugal)
#5 Central African Republic
Kurt Zouma (France)
#6 Cote d’Ivoire
Serge Gnabry (Germany), Nathan Ake (Netherlands)
#8 Cape Verde
Nelson Semedo (Portugal), Edmilson Fernandes (Switzerland), Renato Sanches (Portugal)
#9 DRC
Jordan Lotomba (Switzerland), Dedryck Boyata (Belgium), Youri Tielemans (Belgium), Christian Benteke (Belgium), Michy Batshuayi (Belgium), Romelu Lukaku (Belgium), Presnel Kimpembe (France), Steve Mandanda (France), Ken Sema (Sweden), Kevin Mbabu (Switzerland), Denis Zakaria (Switzerland), Jason Denayer (Belgium)
#10 Eritrea
Alexander Isak (Sweden)
#11 The Gambia
Mathias ‘Zanka’ Jorgensen (Denmark)
#12 Ghana
Jeremy Doku (Belgium), Nikolai Alho (Finland), Robin Quaison (Sweden), Ethan Ampadu (Wales), Cody Gakpo (Netherlands)
#13 Guinea
Paul Pogba (Guinea)
#14 Mali
Adama Traore (Spain), Moussa Sissoko (France), N’Golo Kante (France)
#15 Morocco
Nacer Chadli (Belgium)
#16 Mauritania
Ousmane Dembele (France)
#17 Namibia
Pyry Soiri (Finland)
#18 Nigeria
Karim Onisiwo (Austria), David Alaba (Austria), Bukayo Saka (England), Jamal Musiala (Germany), Manuel Akanji (Switzerland)
#19 Sao Tome e Principe
Renato Sanches (Portugal)
#20 Senegal
Leroy Sane (Germany), Ousmane Dembele (France), Djibril Sow (Switzerland)
#21 Sierra Leone
Glen Kamara (Finland), Antonio Rudiger (Germany)
#22 South Sudan
Denis Zakaria (Switzerland)
#23 Tanzania
Yussuf Poulsen (Denmark)
#24 Togo
Corentin Tolisso (France), Cody Gakpo (Netherlands)
#25 Tunisia
Wissam Ben Yedder (France)