Ivory Coast
Features news coverage of Ivory Coast and its players, including match reports and general football news.
Top Christmas Football Deals
The best part about holiday shopping is the amount of discounts you can find. It is very important to go around the market before buying something because you never know, you might find it for cheaper elsewhere. Keeping that in mind, I looked around for quality presents with good discounts and picked, what I thought,…
Beyond Lionel Messi: An Alternative List of the Top 25 Football Players in the World (10-1)
In my previous article, I argued that the process by which we decide who the world’s best players are has been grossly distorted. A combination of mainstream media hype (backed up with its ‘statistics’ – often little more than a ruse to get people gambling) and a nostalgic longing for the return of the great…
Didier Drogba Wallpaper by IRedGFX
A wonderful football wallpaper designed by a young Russian designer that goes by the name of IRedGFX. His name is actually max, and this is his portfolio. The wallpaper features Didier Drogba from the World Cup, but I wanted to post it since the design is so nice. The text is wonderful and the wall…
Prandelli’s Azzurri go down to the Ivory Coast
Italy’s poor run of results in 2010 continued under the rain of East London on Tuesday night. Cesare Prandelli’s appointment as successor to Marcello Lippi was received with widespread optimism and his squad selection represented a much welcomed revolution despite some questionable choices such as calling up Molinaro at left back. The Italian media focused…
Samba No More!
One overwhelming question has stuck with me since the completion of the World Cup. Is it possible to do it “samba style” anymore? Not since ’86, when Maradona dazzled the crowd, have we witnessed a team win the World Cup by playing free-flowing, attacking football. Even Brazil, who invented “samba style”, have not been there…
20 ‘Lesser Lights’ That Have Shone At The 2010 World Cup
With so many of the ‘big guns’ misfiring at this summer’s World Cup, I thought it was high time to take a look at some of the ‘lesser lights’ that have sparkled in South Africa. Below are the 20 players that, although having seen their sides crash (some more spectacularly than others) out of the…
Puma Tekkies World Cup Sneakers
After writing about the Adidas Kick TR shoes, the world-cup themed sneakers from Adidas, I’ve found something even cooler for you sneaker freaks out there! The Puma Tekkies are a series of football themed shoes, which attempt to portray world cup participant countries creatively on something you can take with you every day. They are…
World Cup News: ‘Der Kaiser’ Takes It All Beck(enbauer)!
Morning all, and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Today sees the start of the World Cup proper, with the first (and second) of the last 16 ties taking place this afternoon. It’ll be good to see some unrelenting do-or-die hyper-tense knock-out football after having to sit through some shamelessly awful ‘let’s…
North Korea 0-3 Ivory Coast – Video Highlights
North Korea 0-3 Ivory Coast 2010 FIFA World Cup 25 June 2010 The Ivory Coast would win their final group stage match 3-0 against North Korea but fail to move onto the next round. It was a dominating performance from Ivory Coast who had chances to win by more but only could convert three of…
Kaka’: “Maradona’s goal was an intentional handball”
Ricardo Kaka’ was probably the last person we would expect to see red in South Africa. “They’d been talking to me about a kid in Brazil. I’d never heard of Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite. From the name he sounded more like a televangelist and that wasn’t far wrong. He looked like a Jehovah’s witness….
Football News 24/7
