When it comes to excellent football showmanship, Africa has proved to be one of the most successful continents in the world.
Inarguably, African footballers have been accustomed to a high level of international football contracts than any other continent in the world.
This factuality has given Africa an upper hand when it comes to selection of top class footballers who play in international leagues. At the moment, we can make mention of some top class African footballers who have been widely recognized for their utmost style of play on the international front.
In the English Premier League, the list of prominent African players who are currently making waves right now include Wilfred Zaha, Pierre Aubameyang, Koulibaly and Thomas Partey.
This selection of players are some of the best strìkers, midfielders and defenders we have in the African football terrain as we speak.
Aside the aforementioned players, two of the most prominent players who are currently raising the African reputation to a different level are Mohammed Salah and Sadio Mane.
Mohammed Salah is widely recognized as one of the most prominent Egyptian players in recent years.
Looking at the level of intelligence he handles the ball with, most international and African football fans have the impression he may be one of the few or even the first African footballer to be declared the World’s best player some day.
This is simply because his tactical ability on field of play is something you can’t overlook.
Talking of classic African players in the English Premier League, Sadio Mane is one player who is widely recognized as the pride of Africa right now. This is because he is one of the few African footballers who have been able to clinge both international club trophies and the African Cup Of Nations trophy.
On record, he is the most successful Senegalese player to have emerged. Coincidentally, both Mohammed Salah and Sadio Mane are from the same football club. This amazing football club that holds these two African super talented footballers is Liverpool.
Divergent to Mane’s AFCON successess, Mohammed Salah has nothing to show for his country as the captain of the side as far as the history of AfCON trophy winners are concerned.
However, he is not the only African player who has been recognized for this feat. There are five other excellent players who actually played some extremely great piece of football on the international front but had nothing to show for AFCON as far as trophies are concerned.
Below is a list of some of them.
1. Micheal Essien
2. Samuel Eto
3. Asamoah Gyan
4. Salomon Kalou
5. Mikel Obi
