facilities and coaches to develop players or quality teams. This is why
African players get injured a lot while on national duty, and this is why
teams don’t want their African players playing in the AFCON.

Essien focked up his elite pro career playing for Ghana. Dude was a defensive
mid on the short list of the Ballon Dor almost every year before he got injured.
Every time he went on national duty he got injured.

There was one World Cup, I believe it was 2010/2014, where players of one
of the African nations were going to stop playing because they had yet to receive
their salaries. The players were threatening to forfeit the games.