On this day: January 17

Birthdays, historic matches and AFCON moments in African football on January 17.

55 African footballers in our database were born on January 17, including Patrick Suffo, Abdou Traoré and Marwane Saâdane.

African national teams have played 41 matches on January 17 since 1965.

Footballers born on January 17 (55)

Player	Born	Nation	Position
Patrick Suffo	1978	Cameroon	Forward
Abdou Traoré	1988	Mali	Midfielder
Marwane Saâdane	1992	Morocco	Midfielder
Ali Elkhattabi	1977	Morocco	Forward
Hicham Zerouali	1977	Morocco	Forward
Faouzi Mansouri	1956	Algeria	Centre-back
Mahieddine Khalef	1944	Algeria
Basilio Ndong	1999	Equatorial Guinea	Wing half
Elvis Kafoteka	1978	Malawi	Defender
Emmanuel Boateng	1994	Ghana	Forward
Ahmed Masbahi	1966	Morocco	Defender
Khaled Ayari	1990	Tunisia	Forward
Mamadi Berthe	1983	Mali	Forward
Musah Nuhu	1997	Ghana	Centre-back
Phoebe Ebimiekumo	1974	Nigeria	Defender
Job Nguono Ochieng	2003	Kenya
Ernest Ohemeng	1996	Ghana	Wing half
Antoine Dossevi	1952	Togo	Wing half
Shady Oukhadda	1999	Morocco	Defender
Ibrahima Baldé	2003	Guinea
Hubert Robson	1974	Madagascar	Midfielder
Waheed Oseni	1988	Nigeria	Midfielder
Adama Traoré	1989	Mali	Midfielder
Aboubacar Sankhare	1978	Mali	Defender
Stanley Kanu	1999	Nigeria
Adam Alilet	1999	Algeria	Defender
Glynn Hurst	1976	South Africa	Forward
Enrico Adolph	1992	South Africa	Defender
Edward Sarpong	1997	Ghana	Defender
Ahmed Moussa Caporia	1988	Egypt	Midfielder
Clinton Nsiala	2004	DR Congo
Vicent Barnabas	1985	Tanzania	Defender
Noureddine Bousnina	1963	Tunisia	Centre-back
Frank Makua	1974	South Africa	Midfielder
Christian Tchouante	2006	Cameroon
Manuel Alexandre Nana Bikoula	1984	Cameroon	Midfielder
Francis Mensah	1988	Ghana	Midfielder
Richard Emmanuel Njoh	1995	Cameroon	Midfielder
Kévin Mbala	2001	DR Congo
Hamdi Eishwain	1984	Libya
Salim Laïb	1961	Algeria	Forward
Salem Haliche	1985	Algeria	Midfielder
Mahamed Habib N'Diaye	1986	Mali	Centre-back
Nikola Tavares	1999	South Africa
Junior Awusi	2006	Equatorial Guinea	Wing half
Ahmed Nemeur	1917	Algeria	Midfielder
Mokrane Amar	1940	Algeria	Goalkeeper
Sekou Konaté	1998	Mali
Olga Ngo Esse	2002	Cameroon	Goalkeeper
Ivy Kolli	1996	Ghana	Defender
Frank Kamalu	1991	Ghana
Setho Moshoeshoe	1994	Lesotho	Midfielder
Nicole Michael	2001	South Africa	Forward
Sumaiyah Nabuto	2004	Uganda	Forward
John Orenia Revita	1992	Uganda	Defender