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Players of African decent dominate UEFA EURO 2016 - Matches
The ongoing Euro 2016 tournament in France should probably be named the Euro-Afro Cup. There is a staggering 44 players of African descent playing at the this year’s tournament. DR Congo has the most with 9 playing including the Lukaku brothers (Romelu & Jordan), followed by Nigeria and Cape Verde both with 5 players each. Cameroon, Mali and Senegal are represented by 3 players each. Other countries also featured are Ghana, Angola, Guinea, Morocco, Tunisia, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, etc,
Below are the list of players and the countries.
Angola : 2
William Carvalho (Portugal),
Blaise Matuidi (France)
Cameroon : 3
Breel Embolo (Suis),
François Moubandje (Suiss),
Samuel Umtiti (France)
Cap-Verde : 5
Eliseu (Portugal),
Gelson Fernandez (Suiss),
João Mário (Portugal),
Nani (Portugal),
Renato Sanches (Portugal)
Ivory Coast : 2
Johan Djourou (Suis),
Jonathan Tah (Germany )
Egypt : 1
Stephan El Shaarawy (Italy)
Ethiopia : 1
Theodor Gebre Selassie (rep of chezh)
Ghana : 1
Jérôme Boateng (Germany )
Guinée : 1
Paul Pogba (France)
Guinée-Bissau : 2
Danilo Pereira (Portugal),
Eder (Portugal)
Kenya : 2
Martin Olsson (Sweden),
Divock Origi (Belgium)
Mali : 3
Moussa Dembélé (Belgium ),
Ngolo Kanté (France),
Moussa Sissoko (France)
Morocco : 2
Marouane Fellaini (Belgium),
Adil Rami (France)
Nigeria : 5
David Alaba (Austia),
Dele Alli (England ),
Angelo Ogbonna (Italy),
Rubin Okotie (Austria),
Hal Robson-Kanu (Pays de Galles)
DR Congo : 9
Michy Batshuayi (Belgium),
Christian Benteke (Belgium),
Jason Denayer (Belgium),
Christian Kabasele (Belgium),
Jordan Lukaku (Belgium),
Romelu Lukaku (Belgium),
Steve Mandanda (France),
Eliaquim Mangala (France),
Denis Zakaria (Swizland)
Sénégal : 3
Patrice Evra (France),
Bacary Sagna (France),
Leroy Sané (Germany)
Tunisia : 1
Sami Khedira (Germany )2016:
Tanzania: 1
Marcus Rashford
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