It’s a tournament for European countries, but as has remained the case, there’s plenty of African representation at the ongoing European championship–the equivalent of the Africa Nations Cup.
Adewale Ajayi does the roll call…
43 African players are at the EURO 2016.
ANGOLA has 2players namely
William Carvalho (Portugal) and Blaise Matuidi (France).
CAMERON has 3players namely Breel Embolo (Switzerland), Francois Moubandje
(Switzerland) and Samuel Umtiti (France).
CAPE-VERDE has 5players namely Eliseu (Portugal), Gelson Fernandez (Switzerland), Joao Mario
(Portugal), Luis Nani (Portugal) and Renato Sanchez (Portugal).
COTE D’ VOIRE has 2players namely JOHAN DJOUROU (Switzerland) and
JONATHAN TAH (Germany).
EGYPT has 1player namely Stephen El
Shaarawy (Italy).
ETHIOPIA has 1player namely Theodor Gebre
Selassie (Czech Republic).
GHANA has 1player namely Jerome
Boateng (Germany).
GUINEA has 1player namely Paul Pogba (France).
GUINEA-BISSAU has 2players namely Danilo Pereira and Eder
(Portugal).
KENYA has 2players namely Martin Olsson (Sweden) and
Divock Origi (Belgium).
MALI has 3players namely Moussa Dembele.(Belgium), Ngolo Kante (France) and Moussa Sissoko (France).
MOROCCO has 2players namely Marouane Fellaini (Belgium), Adil Rami
(France).
NIGERIA has 5players namely David Alaba (Austria), Dele Alli
(England), Angelo Ogbonna (Italy), Rubin Okotie (Austria) and Hal
Robson-Kanu (Wales).
CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC has 9players
namely Michy Batshuayi (Belgium), Christian Benteke (Belgium), Jason
Denayer (Belgium), Christian Kabasele (Belgium), Jordan Lukaku
(Belgium), Romelu Lukaku (Belgium), Steve Mandanda (France),
Eliaquim Mangala (France) and Denis Zakaria (Switzerland). SENEGAL
has 3players namely Patrice Evra (France), Bacary Sagna (France) and
Leroy Sane (Germany).
TUNISIA has 1player namely Sami Khedira
(Germany).
Player number 44 would have been the injured Belgium
Captain Vincent Kompany who is from CONGO.
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