Nigeria - Ivory Coast 0-1 
AHI AHI AHI AHI AHI AHI AHI .....
OHI OHI OHI OHI OHI OHI OHI ....
Gone are the days of Babangida Okocha Oliseh Babayaro and company ...
..... Now there's a nation, a team, a team that can write the history of African football ...
They ......
GLI ELEFANTI....
Grazie ad un gran gol del giovane Salomon Kalou la Costa d'Avorio si impone con ampio merito su una flebile Nigeria che soprattutto nella ripresa ha subito, senza mai creare pericoli alla difesa arancione, le scorribande di Zokora e compagni.
Sontuosi Zokora Yaya Toure e Kader Keita, impresentabile come al solito Oba Oba Martins. Per le Superaquile l'unico a salvarsi è il solito Taye Taiwo, che si dimostra padrone della sua fascia.
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COSTA D’AVORIO – NIGERIA 1-0
La Costa d’Avorio si aggiudica meritatamente il primo scontro tra titani di questa Coppa d’Africa. Il c.t. Elephants, Gili, takes a 3-4-3 which offers the possibility of pressing to Zokora and Yaya Toure and the two full backs to push Eboué and Boka, leaving the defense led by Kolo Toure in equal number with the opposition. Results dear, at least until the Ivorians keep up the pace of the race. Nigeria is beyond measure and when to wait and waiting is rarely dangerous, except for the missiles from outside the area of \u200b\u200bTaiwo, not a little worried that the uncertain Copa. Martins left, Utaka and Yakubu in the middle to the right, behind Kanu, are of little use if they are continuously forced to return or to play back to the door. Mikel can do little. The balance is then broken in the second half from a play Salomon Kalou, the stronger the charismatic leader of the team and his partner in Chelsea, Didier Drogba, a little 'back condition after the accident.
Best - Zokora magically finds himself in his Ivory Coast after the meager London in recent months. Play with personality, the press, offers, encourages, gives suggestions: Tottenham is really far away.
Curiosity - Salomon Kalou should not even play this game if the Dutch authorities a couple of years ago, they signed the Dutch passport as he wanted to Marco Van Basten, coach of the Orange, and a great admirer of the player brought in from Feyenoord brother Bonaventure. Not passed the language test and the "rest" Ivorian. At home, many did not want more of the elephants, then the talent has made an agreement everyone.
