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Ivory
Coast's
National Team
Information
The Côte
d'Ivoire
national football team (or
"Ivory
Coast" in English),
nicknamed Les
Éléphants (The
Elephants in English), is
the
national team of Côte d'Ivoire
and
is
controlled by the Fédération
Ivoirienne de
Football. Until 2005,
their
greatest accomplishment was
winning
the 1992 African Cup of
Nations
against
Ghana on penalties at the
Stade
de
l'Amitie in Dakar,
Senegal.
On
October
8, 2005, they qualified for the
2006
FIFA World Cup, marking their
first
appearance on the
sport's greatest
stage.
They were unable to qualify
for
the
second round after losing to
experienced teams
such as Argentina and
Netherlands in the
so- called Group of
death.
They did manage to win one
game
in
Germany, against Serbia and
Montenegro,
coming back from down 0-2
to
win 3-2
on a late penalty kick by
Bonaventure
Kalou. Many observers of
that
year's tournament said the
team
would
have gone far if they were not
drawn
in such a difficult
group.
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