Africa's involvement in the World Cup ended in Samara on June 28 after Senegal were eliminated by Japan as part of the fair play law. Africa was far from done from the tournament however....
From the perspective of football fans from across the continent, there was still one African team left in the tournament and they were successful in capturing their second World Cup, they are non other than Le Bleus France.
Fact of the matter is there are 15 players with African roots in the France squad, and their lineages stem from all over Africa.
African music has been playing in the background throughout France's World Cup journey, even extending to the stadiums. The song played each time France score a goal is "Magic in the Air" by Ivorian group Magic System, which was chosen as the team's official fan song prior to the tournament by the French Football Federation.
Even the Wonderkid Kyllian Mbappe's Cameroonian ancestry has given people in Cameroon an additional reason to root for France. The teenager's popularity has been further enhanced by the fact that he shares his surname and certain physical characteristics with Samuel Mbappe Leppe, the first Cameroonian player to reach Worldwide stardom.
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