Didier Drogba – Sandals For Goalposts

Match Preview: Cameroon vs. Ivory Coast – Who will win the battle of the rebuild?

In a weekend that was brimming over with extraordinary results and unexpected scorelines, these two teams managed to not upset the bookmakers by staying on-task, as they were [...]

September 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Match Preview: Ivory Coast vs. Sierra Leone

With the continent already dominated by talk of Ebola, it would appear that football has been infected with it too. Five days ago the location of the match was yet to be [...]

September 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

Ivory Coast 1-2 Colombia: Les Elephants no longer secure

Ivory Coast were outmuscled, outthought and outplayed by Colombia in Brasilia An underwhelming display by Ivory Coast against Colombia, and a bore draw for Japan and Greece [...]

June 20, 2014 // 0 Comments

Japan 1-2 Ivory Coast: Drogba wins it by just being there

62 minutes: Die off, Drogba on. 64 minutes: Bony scores. 66 minutes: Gervinho scores. The stats will tell you that Ivory Coast’s captain wasn’t directly involved [...]

June 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Team of the Week

words by Abdul Musa Team of the week for friendlies commencing 5th March 2014. As this is part of the World Cup coverage, I’ve decided to base the team of the week on the 5 [...]

March 8, 2014 // 1 Comment