Mexico and South Africa playing the opening match of the 2010 World Cup.
“Playing in Mexico’s top men’s club football division, Liga MX, is not the most common career path for African footballers. However, there is a long history between Mexico and the African continent, including in football. That connection will surely deepen this coming June when at least three African countries make Mexico their ‘home base’ for the 2026 World Cup. The first player in history to play for a Mexican professional football club was a Moroccan footballer named Mohamed ‘Abdul’ Abderrazak. Little is known about him, but he played at Club Puebla in 1951. The most successful era for African players in the Liga MX came in the early to late 1990s, when some of Africa’s finest players came to play in the league. The most famous were Zambian striker Kalusha Bwalya, who played for Club América in Mexico City, and Cameroonians François Omam-Biyik and Jean-Claude Pagal. …”
Africa Is a Country