Ivory Coast: Seeking A Third Continental Trophy

The Elephants of Ivory Coast will in a few days kick start another campaign to grab Africa’s most coveted football trophy. Since the start of the tournament, the West African team have mounted the podium twice after defeating Ghana in 1992 and 2015 on penalties respectively. Four years after, the Elephants have been fighting fruitless battles in the soccer forest despite harbouring a rich repertoire of African soccer talents in foreign competitions like Didier Drogba, Yaya Toure, Didier Zokoro. Though the Ivoirians emerged second during the qualification phase of the competition behind Guinea, they believe with their current squad, they can go places in the tournament.

Under the technical expertise of a son of the soil Ibrahim Kamara, the Elephants are doing everything they can to mount the podium for the third time. For this to happen, head coach Ibrahim Kamara on Sunday, June 9, 2019 made public his 23-man squad with some notable absentees. At the defense, Manchester United centre defender Eric Bertrand Bailly is out due to injury. Parma forward Gervais Yao Kouassi and Levante...