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مدرب ساحل العاج: "لن أترك منصبى إذا خسرنا كأس الأمم"

Ivory Coast win Tanzania friendly
Ghana's Group B opponents at the African Nations Cup, Ivory Coast, beat
Tanzania 1-0 in Dar el Salaam on Monday in a pre-tournament test match
at the National Stadium.

Elephants captain Didier Drogba scored
the only goal on 37 minutes in a match that attracted close to 60,000
spectators.

Ivory Coast fielded the strong squad that gave a gist
of their starting line-up against Burkina Faso on 11 January in
Cabinda.

Ghana play Ivory Coast on 15 January in the second Group
B matches before playing Burkina Faso in the final fixture.

Ivory
Coast coach Vahid Halilhodzic said : "I was surprised by how good
Tanzania were but I had warned my players not to underestimate them.
They (Taifa Stars) were fast, technically sound and I am happy that we
won."

Ivory Coast will play Rwanda at the same venue on Thursday
before leaving Dar es Salaam on Friday for the Orange Nations Cup Finals
in Angola.

Ivory Coast line-up:

Barry Boubacar (Vincent
Agban), Emmanuel Eboue, Souleyaman Bamba, Siake Tiene, Didier Zokora,
Emerse Fae, Yaya Toure, Kader Keita, Abib Kolo Toure,Didier Drogba,
Salomon Kalou

African Cup Of Nations Player Profile:
Michael Essien – Ghana

Michael Essien is the best thing to have happened to Ghanaian football
since the golden years of Abedi Pele and the short lived career of Nii
Odartey Lamptey. The Chelsea midfielder is any coach’s dream player, as
he has proved time and again playing for both club and country.

Leading
his country to a second qualification for the World Cup with two games
to spare, Essien showed how Essien-tial he is to the Black Stars’
midfield alongside Anthony Annan and the now out of favour Sulley
Muntari.

When the Stars line up during January’s Nations Cup, it
will be the first major tournament in the last six years that Essien
will not be standing beside his friend and ‘soul brother’ Muntari, who
has been dropped from the team due to disciplinary issues. It will
therefore be interesting to see how the Chelsea man performs without the
influence of Muntari, who has been his room-mate at every tournament
the Ghanaians have played in the last six years.

Essien’s quality
cannot be denied. He is a one-man midfield armada that can turn a game
on its head with his mesmerising runs and dribbles when the need arises.
He has shown that he can play in any compartment of the midfield and
defence over and over again with Chelsea, whilst chipping in with
important goals from time to time.

During the last AFCON he
slotted into the captain’s role and central defensive position after
John Mensah was sent off in the quarter-final against Nigeria at the
Ohene Gyan Stadium. In that game he scored Ghana’s equaliser and held
the fort to make sure that the Nigerians could not find a way into the
Stars’ defense, as Ghana triumphed 2-1.

Essien will return to the
Nations Cup in Angola as one of a handful of Africa’s real global
football stars on parade at the bi-annual football showpiece. His
present form will determine how far the Ghanaians can go in attempting
to win their fifth African trophy, the last of which came many years ago
in 1982, Essien’s year of birth.

Coming off an injury sustained
during a recent Champions League match, many of Ghana’s opponents would
hope that the ‘Bison’ does not hit peak form during the tournament.
Group adversaries Ivory Coast, who are led by club team-mates Didier
Drogba and Salomon Kalou, know first-hand what a fully fit Essien can
achieve on a good day, and will pray that the midfield marshal does not
find his feet during their encounter.

But opponents will also
find that, as important as he is to the Black Stars, there are other
young midfielders fighting to fill the big shoes of the Chelsea man. In
the Ghanaian team are youngsters Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu and Andre Ayew,
recent winners of the Under-20 World Cup. Also, in attack will be
Dominic Adiyiah, the best player and highest scorer of the tournament in
Egypt.

These are ambitious young players who will be looking to
cement a place for themselves in Milovan Rajevac’s 2010 World Cup team.
Essien has definitely got capable assistants whom he can look upon to do
the country honours in case he does not gain full fitness before the
tournament.

A fully-fit Michael Essien will light up Angola 2010
with his skills, which is what every neutral football fan should be
hoping for.


Source: Goal.com

دكرت قبل قليـلRmc info ان حافلــة المنتخب الطوغولي التي كانت متواجدة علـى الحدود الانغوليـة قادمـة من الكونغو و التي كانت بصدد التوجه لكابيندا حيت سيجري الفريق مباريات مجموعته
تعرضت لهجوم ناري من مجموعة من التوار ادت الى مقتل لاعب طوغولي و الارجح انه اديبايور و اصابة مجموعة من اللاعبين باصابات خطيرة اضافـة لسائق الحافلة !

تصريح لاعب نانت دوسيفي الدي نجا من الفاجعـة
"انا بخير لكن اللاعبون في حالة مروعـة !! كنا في الحافلـة عندما هوجمنا كالكلاب من طرف رجال مقنعين مدججين بالاسلحـة !
3 لاعبين تلقوا الرصاص في بطنهــم و السائق كدلك كنا مرافقين لكن الحمايـة لم تكن كافيــة !! الامر مروع نحن في المستشفــى بقينا مختبئين 20 دقيقة تحت كراسي الحافلـة
كنا في معسكر مغلق بالكونغو الامر مروع !! "

و يبدو ان الحدت الافريقي في طريقه للالغاء بعد هاته الحادتــة المفجعــة