Bleacher Report Football decided to look at the background of the players of the French national team. Here is a list of 15 athletes who have African roots:

  • Presnel Kimpembe - father from DR,
  • Samuel Umtiti - born in Cameroon,
  • Paul Pogba - Guinea's parents,
  • Kylian Mbappe - Cameroonian father, Algerian mother,
  • Ousmane Dembele - Senegalese background, mother from Mauritania,
  • Corentin Tolisso - could be a representative of Togo,
  • N'Golo Kante - parents from Mali,
  • Blaise Matuidi - father from Angola, mother from DR Congo,
  • Steven N'Zonzi - Congolese roots,
  • Steve Mandanda - born in Kinshasa, capital of DR Congo,
  • Nabil Fekir - parents from Algeria,
  • Djibril Sidibe - Malian background,
  • Benjamin Mendy - parents from Senegal,
  • Adil Rami - parents from Morocco,
  • Thomas Lemar - Nigerian-Guadeloupe background

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