At least 10 players with origin from African continent will feature for France in World Cup semi finals on Tuesday evening even after bungling of African teams out of the competition.
Both Senagal, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Nigeria failed to impress with none getting past group stages.
However, the clash between Les Blues and Belgium will see players from West Africa nations featuring in Didier Dechamps squad having adopted France as their country.
Top among them include Paul Pogba (Guinea), Samuel Umtiti (Cameroon), Kylian Mbappe (Cameroon), Blaise Matuidi (Congo) and N'Golo Kante (Mali).
Others include Ousmane Dembele (Senegal), Conrentin Tolisso (Congo), Stephen Nzonsi (Congo), Steve Mandada (Congo) and Djibril Sidibe (Mali).
France, who are looking for glory for the first time since 1998, has traditionally had the largest representation of African players in Europe.
In 2002, the team lost to Senegal in the opening match. Four years later, they again lost to Italy at home in finals at Paris.