When the Euro 2020 tournament kicked off across Europe, 25 African countries were present – not literally.
They were represented by players with African descent had been called up by their European national teams.
With the competition headed into the quarter final stage, there are only eight teams in the race for glory and in there are a number of African players.
France, which had as many as 11 out of their 23 players with links to Africa crashed out in a paiful fashion when a player of African descent (PSG’s Kylian Mbappe) missed a penalty which dumped the World Champions out of the tournament.
List of African countries and their European players:
#1 Angola
Jordan Lotomba (Switzerland)
#2 Cape Verde
Edmilson Fernandes (Switzerland)
#3 DRC
Jordan Lotomba (Switzerland), Dedryck Boyata (Belgium), Youri Tielemans (Belgium), Christian Benteke (Belgium), Michy Batshuayi (Belgium), Romelu Lukaku (Belgium), Kevin Mbabu (Switzerland), Denis Zakaria (Switzerland), Jason Denayer (Belgium)
#4 The Gambia
Mathias ‘Zanka’ Jorgensen (Denmark)
#5 Ghana
Jeremy Doku (Belgium)
#6 Mali
Adama Traore (Spain)
#7 Morocco
Nacer Chadli (Belgium)
#8 Nigeria
Bukayo Saka (England), Manuel Akanji (Switzerland)
#9 Senegal
Djibril Sow (Switzerland)
#10 South Sudan
Denis Zakaria (Switzerland)
#11 Tanzania
Yussuf Poulsen (Denmark)
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
