AFRICAN SPORTS MONTHLY
'Sports is our Business'
  • Home
  • NEWS
  • Radio
  • TV

Cote D'Ivoire wins 2015 AFCON

2/8/2015

0 Comments

 
Picture
It was billed as the most tantalizing of African Football that fans have been wishing for in years and surely the 2015 AFCON that almost never was, ended up as one of the best in many years.

With millions watching around the world Cote D’Ivoire and its golden generation of world class footballers were not to be denied this time around as they had been for a number of years now as Boubacarr ‘Copa’ Barry (the Cote D’Ivoire Goalkeeper) sealed the deal for them after a spectacular save from Ghana’s goalkeeper (Razak) penalty kick earlier to secure them the win and give them the trophy they had been thirsting for in years as he put one past Razak in sudden death penalty kicks.

The last time Cote D’Ivoire won an African Cup of Nations trophy it was in 1992 against the same Black Stars of Ghana and could you say déjà vu all over again 23 years later as both teams once again fought a battle to the bitter end and the game ended up like it was 23 year back as it had to be decided by penalty Kicks.

Coach Herve Renard of the Ivory Coast is the first coach to have won AFCON finals with two different African national teams and the last team he did so with was the Chipopolo boys of Zambia against the very Ivorians he has now led to a Nations Cup championships they had been seeking for so many years now.

Yaya Toure and his brother Kolo Toure along with the likes of Salomon Kalou and Gervinho are the players of that golden generation of Ivorian Football who it seems by all accounts were running out of time to ever win a major championships on the continent but they finally pulled it off.  The talisman; Didier Drogba who has been the most recognizable face of Ivorian Football for the last decade, like Moses in the Bible with the Israelites, sojourned with the Elephants of the Ivory Coast in football wilderness for years but was never meant to reach the promised land of winning the AFCON Trophy and so with grace he bowed out of international football a year ago and come 2015 the Elephants went on to win it all in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

Congratulations to the Elephants of the Ivory Coast in winning the 30th Edition of the African Cup of Nations; Africa’s holy grail of sports trophies. 
By Editor
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    September 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    December 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013

    Menu

    All
    2014 FIFA World Cup
    Athletics
    Basketball
    Boxing
    Commonwealth Games
    Cricket
    Golf
    Hockey
    Marathons
    News
    Olympics
    Rugby
    Soccer
    Spotlight
    Tennis
    Track And Field
    Volleyball
    Women Soccer
    Wrestling


    Picture

    RSS Feed


    Tweets by ASMONTHLY

Tweet to @ASMONTHLY

Contact Us

    Contact Us

Submit

Donate & Support Our Efforts at African Sports Media Network