List of first black players for European national football teams
The following is a list of the first black or mixed-race players to represent European international association football teams. The first black man to play international football was Andrew Watson, who earned the first of his three caps for Scotland on 12 March 1881, when he captained them in a 6–1 win away to England at The Oval in London.[1]
Team | Player | Debut | Notes | |
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Andrew Watson | Born in Demerara, British Guiana (now Guyana) to an Afro-Guyanese mother and Scottish father.[1]
No black players represented Scotland since Watson until the debut of Nigel Quashie on 27 May 2004. Quashie was born in London to a Ghanaian father and English mother, and qualified for Scotland through a grandfather.[2] | |||
Helmut Köglberger | Born in Steyr, Austria to an African-American father and Austrian mother. | |||
Dimitri Mbuyu | Born in Berchem, Belgium, of Congolese origin. | |||
Sonni Nattestad | Born in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, of Afro-Haitian origin. | |||
Raoul Diagne | Diagne was born to Senegalese parents in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana.[3] | |||
Eddie Parris | Parris, born to Jamaican parents in Pwllmeyric near Chepstow, played one match for Wales.[4] | |||
Erwin Kostedde | Born in Münster to an African-American father and German mother.[5] | |||
Daniel Batista Lima | Born in São Vicente, Cape Verde, a naturalised Greek citizen. | |||
Viv Anderson | The first black player to represent England at any level was Benjamin Odeje, for the England schoolboys team against Northern Ireland in 1971.[6] Paul Ince was the nation's first black captain, against the United States in June 1993.[7] | |||
Chris Hughton | Hughton was born in London to a Ghanaian father and Irish mother.[8] | |||
Donato Gama da Silva | Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a naturalised Spanish citizen. The first Spanish-born black player in the team was Vicente Engonga, born in Barcelona to Equatoguinean parents, who debuted against Russia on 23 September 1998. | |||
Humphrey Mijnals | Born in Paramaribo, Surinam, then a Dutch plantation colony, played three matches for the Netherlands and 45 matches for Suriname.[9][10][11] | |||
John Carew | Born in Akershus, of Gambian origin.[12] | |||
Emmanuel Olisadebe | Born in Warri, Nigeria, a naturalised Polish citizen. | |||
Guilherme Espírito Santo | Born in Lisbon, Portugal, of São Toméan descent. | |||
Fabio Liverani | Born in Rome to a Somali mother and Italian father.[13] | |||
Lúcio Wagner | Born in Río de Janeiro, Brazil, a naturalized Bulgarian citizen. | |||
Theodor Gebre Selassie | Born in Třebíč to an Ethiopian father and Czech mother.[14] | |||
Badile Lubamba | Born in Kinshasa, he moved to Switzerland at a young age.[15] Blaise Nkufo - the second black player to appear for Switzerland - came on as a substitute in the same match. | |||
Victor Pálsson | Born in Reykjavík, his grandfather was from Mozambique. | |||
Eduardo da Silva | Born in Rio de Janeiro, he was naturalised as a Croatian citizen. |
See also
References
- 1 2 McGowan, Tom (23 February 2012). "Football pioneer: Andrew Watson - the first black international". CNN. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ↑ Darko, Isaac (22 September 2015). "Ghanaian players who chose Euro nations". Pulse. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ↑ "15 février 1931. Le premier footballeur noir en équipe de France est fils de ministre. Scandale..." [15 February 1931. The first black footballer in the France national team is son of minister. Scandal...]. Le Point (in French). 15 February 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ↑ Shipton, Martin (8 August 2008). "Move to honour Wales' first black footballer". Wales Online. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ↑ "ERWIN KOSTEDDE: THE FIRST BLACK PLAYER FOR GERMANY". DFB. 22 December 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ↑ Ashdown, Marc (24 May 2013). "First black England player revealed to be Benjamin Odeje". BBC. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ↑ Taylor, Daniel (28 November 2008). "Shy pioneer plays down his place in history". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ↑ "Hughton factfile". 6 April 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ↑ "The Italian Exception". The New Yorker. 24 June 2014. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ↑ "Colourful Pioneers". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ↑ "Humphrey Mijnals (1930)". Kent u deze nog?. 12 October 2012. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ↑ "John Carew: Why football will never be more important than life and death". The Independent. 22 October 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ↑ "Liverani is first black player to win Italy cap". The Guardian. 25 April 2001. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ↑ Petrák, Michal (29 May 2012). "Euro 2012: Czech Republic profile - Theodor Gebre Selassie". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 October 2015.
- ↑ "Le premier Noir en équipe de Suisse de football" (in French). Retrieved 11 September 2018.
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