Soccer World Cup 2010 / Ivory Coast

This article covers the Ivorian national football team at the 2010 World Cup .

qualification

The team qualified through the qualifying games of the African Football Association CAF for the World Cup in South Africa .

In the second qualifying round, Ivory Coast met Mozambique , Madagascar and Botswana in Group 7 . After the Ivorian national team had already started the group phase as favorites, they lived up to their reputation and rose to the third qualifying round as the clear group winner with three wins and three draws.

There the team met in Group 5 on Burkina Faso , Malawi and Guinea . As another favorite, Ivory Coast qualified for the World Cup finals after five wins and a draw from six games.

Second round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Ivory Coast	10: 2	12
2	Mozambique	7: 5	8th
3	Madagascar	2: 7	6th
4th	Botswana	3: 8	5

June 1, 2008 : Ivory Coast - Mozambique 1-0 (0-0)

June 8, 2008 : Madagascar 0-0 Ivory Coast

June 14, 2008 : Botswana 1-1 Ivory Coast (1-0)

June 22, 2008 : Ivory Coast - Botswana 4-0 (2-0)

7 September 2008 : Mozambique - Ivory Coast 1: 1 (0: 0)

October 14, 2008 : Ivory Coast - Guinea 3-0 (1-0)

Third round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Ivory Coast	19: 4	16
2	Burkina Faso	10:11	12
3	Malawi	4:11	4th
4th	Guinea	7:14	3

March 29, 2009 : Ivory Coast - Malawi 5-0 (3-0)

June 6, 2009 : Guinea 1-2 Ivory Coast (0-1)

June 20, 2009 : Burkina Faso 2-3 Ivory Coast (1: 1)

September 5, 2009 : Ivory Coast - Burkina Faso 5-0 (2-0)

October 10, 2009 : Malawi - Ivory Coast 1: 1 (0: 0)

November 14, 2009 : Ivory Coast - Guinea 3-0 (2-0)

Ivorian contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Boubacar Barry	Sporting Lokeren	12/30/1979	3	0	0	0	0
16	Aristide Zogbo	Maccabi Netanya	12/30/1981	0	0	0	0	0
23	Daniel Yéboah	ASEC Mimosas	11/13/1984	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Benjamin Angoua	Valenciennes FC	11/28/1986	0	0	0	0	0
3	Arthur Boka	VfB Stuttgart	04/02/1983	2	0	0	0	0
4th	Kolo Touré	Manchester City	03/19/1981	3	0	0	0	0
6th	Steve Gohouri	Wigan Athletic	02/08/1981	0	0	0	0	0
17th	Siaka Tiéné	Valenciennes FC	02/22/1982	2	0	1	0	0
20th	Guy Demel	Hamburger SV	06/13/1981	2	0	1	0	0
21st	Emmanuel Eboué	Arsenal FC	06/04/1983	3	0	0	0	0
22nd	Souleymane Bamba	Hibernian Edinburgh	January 13, 1985	0	0	0	0	0
midfield player
5	Didier Zokora	Sevilla FC	December 14, 1980	3	0	1	0	0
9	Cheik Tioté	FC Twente Enschede	06/21/1986	3	0	1	0	0
12	Jean-Jacques Gosso	AS Monaco	03/15/1983	0	0	0	0	0
13	Romaric	Sevilla FC	06/04/1983	3	1	0	0	0
14th	Emmanuel Koné	Internațional Curtea Argeș	December 31, 1986	0	0	0	0	0
19th	Yaya Touré	FC Barcelona	05/13/1983	3	1	0	0	0
striker
7th	Seydou Doumbia	BSC Young Boys	December 31, 1987	1	0	0	0	0
8th	Salomon Kalou	Chelsea FC	08/05/1985	3	1	0	0	0
10	Gervinho	Lille OSC	05/27/1987	3	0	0	0	0
11	Didier Drogba	Chelsea FC	03/11/1978	3	1	0	0	0
15th	Aruna Dindane	Portsmouth FC	11/26/1980	3	0	0	0	0
18th	Abdul Kader Keïta	Galatasaray SK	08/06/1981	3	0	1	0	0
Trainer
	Sven-Göran Eriksson		02/05/1948

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Brazil	5: 2	7th
2	Portugal	7-0	5
3	Ivory Coast	4: 3	4th
4th	North Korea	1:12	0

In the preliminary round of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Ivorian national football team met in the group G in Brazil , North Korea and Portugal . After they had only drawn against Portugal and had the expected defeat against the clear group favorites Brazil, they not only had to rely on the support of the Brazilians in the last game against Portugal, but should also have surpassed the Portuguese 7-0 against North Korea . Neither happened and the Ivory Coast was eliminated at the first World Cup on its own continent after the preliminary round.

• Tuesday June 15, 2010; 16:00 in Port Elizabeth Ivory Coast - Portugal 0-0
  

• Sunday June 20, 2010; 8:30 p.m. in Johannesburg ( FNB Stadium ) Brazil - Ivory Coast 3: 1 (1: 0)
  

• Friday June 25, 2010; 16:00 in Nelspruit North Korea - Ivory Coast 0: 3 (0: 2)
  

Web links

• All matches in the preliminary round at a glance ( memento from September 29, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) on FIFA.com
• FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010: Squad Ivory Coast ( Memento from June 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )