It will be an African affair in either side when two football nations come face to face in the last stop to lift the coveted EURO cup
The two country’s however have one thing in common, the presence of black immigrants in the squad.
One thing in common is that the two were colonial masters of most African country’s
The first black man to play international football was Andrew Watson who earned the first of his three caps for Scotland on 12th March 1881 when he captained them in a 6-1 away win at England at the Oval, London.
Six of the France team that started the semi final match against world champions Germany were of African heritage, Oh! Not six they were seven, Everton’s Dimitri Payet who is from the Re Union islands
Although Blaise Matuidi ”s parents were born in Angola and moved to Toulouse, France following civil war in the country
Blaise Matuidi was quoted saying he had to make a difficult choice of closing between France or Angola, he says although he plays for France, he can’t forget Angola.
Statistics show that exactly half of the 24 competing countries at the Euro 2016 went into the tournament with at least one player of African descent.
The final today on the Portugal side, Angolan born William Carvahlo and teenage sensation Renato Sanchez whose roots are traced from Cape Verde alongside Nani and Eliseu
FC Porto’s Danilo born in Guinea Bissau
Portugal perhaps is the country which is relatively fair on the migrant inteegartion policy although France leads, it’s estimated that Portugal has close to 200,000-500,000 immigrants although they don’t keep records. France on the other side has a whooping 8 million people of African descent
The French team that knocked out surprise package Iceland and World champion Germany was purely dominated by blacks.this huge wins drew slot of criticism from different people with Iceland coach saying
