Review of Africans in the UEFA Champions League 2013/2014 season

Set to kick off September 17,2013,the biggest club football competition in the world the UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE has been seeded,grouped and with various club side announcing their squads for this season.247tops have decided to carefully analyze all the AFRICAN players that would be participating in their various clubs come this 2013/2014 UEFA champions league season.64 African players as against 67 last year from 19 countries with Ghana producing 9players,Cameroun and Cote D'ivoire producing 8 respectively,Nigeria and Senegal 7 each,Mali 4,Congo and DR Congo 3players,Angola,Egypt,Algeria and Morocco player respectively.Comoros,Togo,Tunisia,Libya,Guinea,South Africa and Gabon each one player would be playing for 22 clubs as listed below:
ARSENAL FC (3): Serge Gnabry (Cote d'Ivoire), Daniel Boateng, Emmanuel Frimpong (both Ghana)
CHELSEA (3): Mikel Obi (Nigeria), Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon), Demba Ba (Senegal)
FC PORTO (2): Kadu (Angola), Mikel Agu (Nigeria)
BARCELONA (1): Alex Song (Cameroon)
OLYMPIQUE MARSEILLE (11): Chris Samba (Congo), Aly Yirango (Mali), Kassim Abdallah (Comoros), Nicholas N'koulou (Cameroon), Souleymane Diawara (Senegal), Jordan Ayew, Andre Ayew, Kevin Osei (all Ghana), Alaixys Romao (Togo), Saber Khalifa (Tunisia), Gianelli Imbula Wanga (DRCongo)
AC MILAN (5): Sulley Muntari (Ghana), Kevin Constant (Guinea), Djamel Mesbah (Algeria), Bakaye Traoré (Mali), M'baye Niang (Senegal)
SCHALKE 04 (3): Joel Matip (Cameroon), Chinedu Obasi (Nigeria), Kevin Prince Boateng (Ghana)
ATLETICO DE MADRID (2): Fallou Gallas Wade, Momar Ndoye (both Senegal)
CSKA MOSKVA (2): Ahmed Musa (Nigeria), Seydou Doumbia (Cote d'Ivoire)
PARIS SAINT GERMAIN (2): Mory Diaw (Senegal), Khalifa Traore (Mali),
JUVENTUS (1): Kwadwo Asamoah (Ghana)
FC BASEL (5): Genseric Kusunga (Angola), Serey Die, Giovanni Sio (both Cote d'Ivoire), Mohamed Salah, Mohamed Elneny (both Egypt)
OLYMPIAKOS FC (5): Carl Medjani (Algeria), Sambou Yatabaré (Mali), Gaetan Bong (Cameroon), Delvin Ndinga (Congo), Michael Olaitan (Nigeria)
GALATASARAY (5): Emmanuel Eboué, Didier Drogba (both Cote d'Ivoire), Aurélien Chedjou, Dany Nounkeu (both Cameroon), Nordin Amrabat (Morocco)
AJAX AMSTERDAM (2): Eyong Enoh (Cameroon), Thulani Serero (South Africa)
MANCHESTER CITY (1): Yaya Toure (Cote d'Ivoire)
BORUSSIA DORTMUND (1): Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Gabon)
FSC ANDERLECHT (6): Frank Acheampong (Ghana), Mbenza Bedi, Fabrice N'Sakala (both DRCongo), Cheikhou Kouyaté (Senegal), Gohi Bi Cyriac (Cote d'Ivoire), Nabil Jaadi (Morocco)
CELTIC FC (2): Steven Mouyokolo (Congo), Efe Ambrose(Nigeria)
FC KOPENHAGEN (1): Fanendo Adi (Nigeria)
FK AUSTRIA VIEN (1): Ismael Tajouri-Shradi (Libya)
Only 11 teams have no Afican footballers in thier squad this season as against 8 last season(Real Madrid,Napoli,Bayern Munich,Steaua Bucharest,Viktoria Plzen,Real Sociedad,Zenit St Petersburg,Bayer Leverkusen and Shakhtar Donetsk.As usual France LIGUE 1 has the highest number of players 13,followed by England EPL with 7players.Italian SERIE A and Belgium JUPILER PRO LEAGUE has 6 players respectively.Switzerland SWISS SUPER LEAGUE,Greece SUPERLEAGUE GREECE and Turkey SüPER LIG has 5 players each while German BUNDESLIGA has 4 footballers from the league.Spanish LIGA BBVA 3players.Portugal LIGA SACRES,RUSSIAN FOOTBALL PREMIER LEAGUE,Holland EREDIVISIE and Scotland SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE has 2 players each.Finally Denmark DANISH SUPERLIGA and Austria AUSTRIA FOOTBALL BUNDESLIGA has each player.