Okay, better late than never!! NK, I think they are spillover effect from India. Indian soccer clubs have many foreigners plying their trade in various divisions. That in itself is not a surprising factor considering the fact the clubs out their can pay "10-20 lakhs" to many of their star players in a season. Coupled with the understanding that Africa is not amongst the richest of the continent, my assumption is that they - the people of Africa - are constantly trying to move to different countries to earn their living. Better ones (players) heads to Europe and countries such as India gets the bottom of the pact. You can use your imagination on what our Nepali clubs would get. Exactly! The leftovers!! But hey, they are as good or even better in many cases if one of my friends who play for national team (on and of) and a club is to be believed. I take his word for that. I just know this side of the story. I am sure there could be various other reasons. I did play with couple of Africans many years back, thus I took the liberty of shed more info on this one than perhaps I should have. The local clubs paid them around 14-20 thousands Indian rupees. Goodwill gesture from Africa? If you would ask me, there is nothing that they can give us that we do not have. Polpot? Khmer Rouge? No thanks, we have our very own Pushpa Kamal dahal aka Prachanda. Forests, Jungles, culture, tradition et. al., we are on the verge of eroding, so who needs it? Maybe our national zoo needs a pair of lion, eh? But I do not think Africans would be so cruel on the lions, what with the lions in our zoo appeared starving to death in very limited confinement. In case they do decide to send a pair for goodwill gesture; that should count as animal cruelty. My heart's already bleeding for those Lions. :) Those lucky Nepali Rhinos that migrated to Austria - those lucky bastards! And, we have people here in US, Europe and where not, trying to seek asylum. Maybe animals have better life eh'? But I digress. Oh well! Hota hein chalta hein duniya hein. By the way did I answer you about those African footballers in Nepal? Or are ya already sleeping? LOL. IndisGuise:)