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Ep.296: The greatest African XI to play in Serie A

With players starting to depart for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, Italian clubs are less impacted than usual, but over the years some of the best players from that continent have pulled on the shirts of both giants and minnows.


Host Kev Pogorzelski is joined by Euan Burns and Conor Clancy to select and debate a starting XI made up of the greatest African players to have played their trade in Serie A on the latest TIFtalks episode from Total Italian Football.

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