Soccer World Cup 2006 / Ivory Coast

This article deals with the Ivorian national football team at the 2006 World Cup in Germany .

qualification

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Ivory Coast	20: 7	22nd
2	Cameroon	18:10	21st
3	Egypt	26:15	17th
4th	Libya	8:10	12
5	Sudan	6:22	6th
6th	Benin	9:23	5

	Ivory Coast - Libya		2-0
	Aruna Dindane, Didier Drogba
	Egypt - Ivory Coast		1: 2
	Aruna Dindane, Didier Drogba
	Cameroon - Ivory Coast		2-0
	Ivory Coast - Sudan		5-0
	Didier Drogba, Aruna Dindane (2), Gilles Yapi, Bakari Kone
	Benin - Ivory Coast		0: 1
	Aruna Dindane
	Ivory Coast - Benin		3-0
	Bonaventure Kalou, Didier Drogba (2)
	Libya - Ivory Coast		0-0
	Ivory Coast - Egypt		2-0
	Didier Drogba (2)
	Ivory Coast - Cameroon		2: 3
	Didier Drogba (2)
	Sudan - Ivory Coast		1: 3
	Kanga Akale, Aruna Dindane (2)

Ivorian contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Jean-Jacques Tizié	Espérance Tunis	07.09.1972	2	0	0	0	0
16	Gérard Gnanhouan	HSC Montpellier	02/12/1979	0	0	0	0	0
23	Copa	KSK Beveren	12/30/1979	1	0	0	0	0
Defender
3	Arthur Boka	Racing Strasbourg	04/02/1983	3	0	1	0	0
4th	Kolo Touré	Arsenal FC	03/19/1981	2	0	0	0	0
6th	Blaise Kouassi	ES Troyes AC	02/02/1975	1	0	0	0	0
12	Abdoulaye Méïté	Olympique Marseille	10/06/1980	2	0	0	0	0
13	Marco Zoro	FC Messina	December 27, 1983	0	0	0	0	0
17th	Cyril Domoraud	US Créteil	07/22/1971	1	0	1	1	0
20th	Guy Demel	Hamburger SV	06/13/1981	0	0	0	0	0
21st	Emmanuel Eboué	Arsenal FC	06/04/1983	3	0	1	0	0
midfield player
2	Kanga Akalé	AJ Auxerre	03/07/1981	3	0	0	0	0
5	Didier Zokora	AS Saint-Etienne	December 14, 1980	3	0	1	0	0
7th	Emerse Faé	FC Nantes	01/24/1984	0	0	0	0	0
10	Gilles Yapi Yapo	BSC Young Boys	01/30/1982	1	0	0	0	0
19th	Yaya Touré	Olympiacos Piraeus	05/13/1983	3	0	0	0	0
22nd	Romaric	Le Mans FC	06/04/1983	1	0	0	0	0
striker
8th	Bonaventure Kalou	Paris Saint-Germain	01/12/1978	2	1	0	0	0
9	Arouna Koné	PSV Eindhoven	11/11/1983	3	0	0	0	0
11	Didier Drogba	Chelsea FC	03/11/1978	2	1	2	0	0
14th	Bakari Koné	OGC Nice	09/17/1981	3	1	0	0	0
15th	Aruna Dindane	RC Lens	11/26/1980	3	2	1	0	0
18th	Abdul Kader Keïta	Lille OSC	08/06/1981	2	0	1	0	0
Trainer
	Henri Michel		10/28/1947

Ivory Coast Games

Crew quarters

Hotel Clostermanns Hof in Niederkassel . Training ground in Troisdorf .

Preliminary round

• Argentina - Ivory Coast 2-1 (2-0)

• Netherlands - Ivory Coast 2: 1 (2: 1)

• Ivory Coast - Serbia and Montenegro 3: 2 (1: 2)

For details see Football World Cup 2006 / Group C