From January 13 to February 11, the African Cup of Nations will be in full swing in Ivory Coast. With a certain impact for a number of French clubs.
With eight internationals called up for the African Cup of Nations, OM is the Ligue 1 club most impacted – by far – by the talent drain this winter. Find below, for each qualified country, the list of players playing in Ligue 1, Ligue 2 or even National selected for the continental tournament and potentially absent until mid-February.
Ivory Coast
Yahia Fofana (Angers), Wilfried Singo (Monaco), Oumar Diakité (Reims)
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Mama Balde (Lyon)
Nigeria
Moses Simon (Nantes)
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Dylan Tavares (Bastia), Logan Costa (Toulouse)
Ghana
Alidu Seidu (Clermont), Gideon Mensah (Auxerre), Nicholas Opoku (Amiens), Mohammed Salisu (Monaco), Elisha Owusu (Auxerre), Salis Abdul Samed (Lens), André Ayew (Le Havre), Ernest Nuamah (Lyon)
Egypt
Mostafa Mohamed (Nantes)
Cameroon
Simon Ngapandouetnbu (Marseille), Fabrice Ondoa (Nîmes), Christopher Wooh (Rennes), Darlin Yongwa (Lorient), Jean-Charles Castelleto (Nantes), Malcom Bokele (Bordeaux), Enzo Tchato (Montpellier), François-Régis Mughe (Marseille ), Franck Magri (Toulouse)
Senegal
Krépin Diatta (Monaco), Formose Mendy (Lorient), Abdoulaye Ndiaye (Troyes), Ismail Jakobs (Monaco), Lamine Camara (Metz), Nampalys Mendy (Lens), Pape Gueye (Marseille), Iliman Ndiaye (Marseille), Ismaïla Sarr (Marseille)
Guinea
Saidou Sow (Strasbourg), Ibrahim Diakité (Reims), Issiaga Sylla (Montpellier), Abdoulaye Touré (Le Havre), Karim Cissé (Saint-Etienne), Morgan Guilavogui (Lens), Mohamed Bayo (Le Havre), Facinet Conte (Bastia )
Algeria
Anthony Mandrea (Caen), Youcef Atal (Nice), Kévin Guitoun (Metz), Nabil Bentaleb (Lille), Hicham Boudaoui (Nice), Adam Ounas (Lille)
Angola
Jonathan Buatu (Valenciennes), Jérémie Bela (Clermont)
Burkina Faso
Hillel Konaté (Châteauroux), Sacha Bansé (Valencienne), Gustavo Sangaré (Quevilly-Rouen), Mamady Bangré (Toulouse), Abdoul Tapsoba (Amiens)
Mauritania
Babacar Niasse (Guingamp), Bakary Camara (Villefranche-Beaujolais), Oumar N’Gom (Pau), Pape Ibnou Ba (Concarneau)
Tunisia
Montassar Talbi (Lorient), Yan Valéry (Angers), Ali Abdi (Caen)
DR Congo
Lionel Mpasi (Rodez), Dimitry Bertaud (Montpellier), Chancel Mbemba (Marseille), (Saint-Etienne), Gédéon Kalulu (Lorient), Samuel Moutoussamy (Nantes), Gaël Kakuta (Amiens)
Morocco
Yunis Abdelhamid (Reims), Achraf Hakimi (PSG), Azzedine Ounahi (Marseille), Amir Richardson (Reims), Amine Harit (Marseille)
