“I have the feeling that we are reinforcing our Africanism. Barça is African. We are a global club and the African players we have had in our history have performed very well…” these were the words of Joan Laporta yesterday at the presentation press conference by Franck Kessie.
In honor of Barcelona’s new Ivorian footballer, we wanted to complete a short list of the best African players in the history of the culé club:
He may never have had a chance to earn a starting spot, but that’s because he was lucky enough to play for arguably the best team in history. He counted a lot for Pep Guardiola and in the vast majority of second parts he entered the field of play to help his teammates. Very underrated footballer.
We cannot place him higher because he has only played half a season at FC Barcelona, but thanks to him the team has qualified for the next Champions League. Former striker who has shown at Borussia Dortmund and Arsenal that when he is plugged in there is no one like him.
It is true that his best years were not at Barcelona, but I can still show here that little by little he was becoming one of the best midfielders in the world. In 2009 he was champion of the Champions League with the Blaugrana shirt. He would later become a Premier League legend wearing the Manchester City shirt.
We are talking about one of the best strikers in the history of the culé team. Samuel Eto’o led the Blaugrana forward at the beginning of this century at will. The Cameroonian became an idol of the Barcelona fans until 2010, when Guardiola decided that the footballer Barça needed to attack him was Zlatan Ibrahimović.
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