2024-01-12 17:14:23
The African Cup opens in Ivory Coast. The Elephants face Guinea-Bissau on Saturday, at the Ébimpé stadium, for the first day of Group A of CAN 2024. A meeting to follow live from 9 p.m., Paris time, on France24.com .
Published on: 01/12/2024 – 4:14 p.m. Modified on: 01/13/2024 – 09:41 a.m.
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CAN 2024 is finally here. At home, Ivory Coast has the heavy burden of launching its home campaign in the best possible way against Guinea-Bissau in the opening match of the African Cup of Nations. Who will be stronger, Elephants or Lycaons?
A meeting to follow live from 9 p.m. Paris time on France24.com and which will be preceded by a special broadcast on France 24.
Ivory Coast is therefore preparing to launch its CAN and will want to honor its status as favorite. The ambition is twofold: to win a third coronation, after the victories of 1992 and 2015, and to break the curse of the organizer, who has not won the CAN since Egypt in Cairo in 2006. It was d elsewhere against Didier Drogba’s Elephants in the final.
Opposite, Guinea-Bissau does not seem able to spoil the party, still chasing its first victory in an African Cup. But Ivory Coast has not forgotten the fiasco of 1984: it was eliminated at home in the first round.
The Elephants will, however, have to deal without their star center forward. Sebastien Haller has not sufficiently recovered from an injury to his left ankle, coach Jean-Louis Gasset announced on Friday.
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