COTE D'IVOIRE

 

Cote d'Ivoire are not far from home, across the border in a country which does not share much brotherly love with Ghana. The Elephants are now no longer living on the success of their 1992 triumph, although coach Martin Gbonke Tia was an assistant to Martial Yeo when they won their only continental championship. In Marseille's Ibrahima Bakayoko, Inter Milan's Cyrille Domoraud and Bonaventure Kalou of Feyenoord they possess the integral ingredients to emerging from a difficult group.

Coach

Martin Gbonke Tia

 

Squad

Alain Gouamene

Aliou Siby Badra

Blaise Kouassi Koffi

Bonaventure Kalou

Charles Dago

Cyril Domoraud

Didier Angan

Dominique Sam Abouo

Donald-Olivier Sie

Ghislain Akassou

Gnahoua Zoko

Hamed Modibo Diallo

Ibrahim Kone

Ibrahima Bakayoko

Jean-Jacques Tizie

Lassina Dao

Lassina Diabate

Olivier Tebily

Patrice Zere

Serge Die

Seydou Diarra

Tchiressoa Guel

 

African Rank

World Rank

8

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Nickname

Colours

Elephants

Orange, white, green

Head of State

Honours

Henri Konan Bedi

Winner 1992

Official Language

Currency

French

franc CFA

Population

Capital

14 292 000

Yamoussoukro