On this day: April 2

Birthdays, historic matches and AFCON moments in African football on April 2.

53 African footballers in our database were born on April 2, including Andrcu Onana, Arthur Boka and Ezzaki Badou.

African national teams have played 10 matches on April 2 since 1961.

Footballers born on April 2 (53)

Player	Born	Nation	Position
Andrcu Onana	1996	Cameroon	Goalkeeper
Arthur Boka	1983	Ivory Coast	Full-back
Ezzaki Badou	1959	Morocco	Goalkeeper
Jérémy Morel	1984	Madagascar	Full-back
Abdelhak Nouri	1997	Morocco	Midfielder
Getaneh Kebede	1992	Ethiopia	Forward
Hicham Aboucherouane	1981	Morocco	Forward
Tarik Tissoudali	1993	Morocco	Wing half
Hamza Rafia	1999	Tunisia	Midfielder
Ricardo Goss	1994	South Africa	Goalkeeper
Amr El Solia	1990	Egypt	Midfielder
Samir Kamouna	1972	Egypt	Defender
Wisam El Abdy	1979	Tunisia	Defender
Neil Tovey	1962	South Africa	Centre-back
Abdelkader Bedrane	1992	Algeria	Full-back
Ali Meçabih	1972	Algeria	Forward
Mondher Kebaier	1970	Tunisia	Defender
Kennedy Chihuri	1969	Zimbabwe	Midfielder
Siza Dlamini	1976	Eswatini	Forward
Abraham Shatimuene	1986	Namibia	Midfielder
Check Keita	2003	Mali
Sidy Sagna	1990	Senegal	Midfielder
Abdelhamid Zouba	1935	Algeria	Forward
Moyadh Ousseni	1993	Comoros	Goalkeeper
Bilel Aouacheria	1994	Algeria	Forward
Edmund Owusu-Ansah	1983	Ghana	Midfielder
William Manondo	1991	Zimbabwe	Forward
Louay Ben Hassine	2000	Tunisia	Midfielder
Mamadou Traoré	2002	Ivory Coast
Vanessa Chikupila	1991	Malawi
Ibrahim Walidjo	1989	Cameroon	Midfielder
Michael Wreh	1979	Liberia	Goalkeeper
Abdou Nef	1995	Algeria	Midfielder
Emmanuel Baffour	1989	Ghana	Forward
Vincent Emmanuel	2001	Nigeria
Edward Charles Manyama	1994	Tanzania
Seifeddine Akremi	1990	Tunisia	Defender
Elias Tsabalaka	1983	Malawi	Defender
Oumar Ballo	1991	Mali	Defender
Guedegbe Franck Corbin Arnaud	1988	Ivory Coast	Forward
Sanele Barns	1997	South Africa
Álvaro Semedo Vaz	1986	Cape Verde	Wing half
Fuseina Mumuni	2001	Ghana	Forward
Massinisa Tafni	1995	Algeria	Midfielder
Prosper Chiluya	1998	Zambia	Defender
Billy Maximiano	1974	Cape Verde	Forward
Abdellah Rasmal	1978	Algeria	Midfielder
Mohamed Diaby	1990	Ivory Coast	Midfielder
Adel Hmani	1990	Tunisia	Centre-back
Theresa Gomina-Lihu	1986	Nigeria	Forward
Ntsoaki Nthethe	2003	Lesotho
Aisha Nsangou	2007	Cameroon
Najiat Abass Idrisa	1997	Tanzania	Goalkeeper