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African Players Playing For Different European Teams by Dahyor20: 5:09pm On Jul 07, 2014 |
African Players playing for different European teams Over the years, the issue of dual Nationalism has been a bone of contention in the round leather game. Many players have ditched there country of origin for another country, where some of them have preferred their countries of birth to the countries of their parents. Here’s a list of some players traceable to African Origin; Ben Arfa (Tunisia) - France Paul Pogba (Guinea) - France Karim Benzema (Algeria) - France Samir Nasri (Algeria) - France Govou (Benin) - France Zinedine Zidane (Algeria) - France Luis Nani (Cape Verde) - Portugal Christian Benteke (DRC) -Belgium Jerome Boateng (Ghana) Germany David Alaba (Nigeria) - Austria Oguchi Onyewu (Nigeria) - USA Angelo Ogbonna (Nigeria) - Italy Dennis Aogo (Nigeria) - Germany Okaka Chuka (Nigeria) - Italy Gabriel Agbonlahor (Nigeria) -Scotland Patrick Owemoyela (Nigeria) - Germany Nedum Onuoah (Nigeria) -England Patrick Vieira (Senegal) - France Mousa Dembele(Mali) - Belgium Romelo Lukaku (DRC) - Belgium Sami Khedira (Tunisia) - Germany Vincent Kompany (Congo) Belgium Danny Welbeck (Ghana) - England Mario Balotelli (Ghana) - Italy Mamadou Sakho (Guinea) -France Bacary Sagna (Senegal) - France Patrice Evra (Guinea) - France El Shaarawy(Egypt) -Italy Dirick Origi (Kenya) - Belgium Ramires Makukula (Swaziland) -Brazil Imagine all these players playing for the above named African Countries...
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