Ivory Coast's Stunning Win in Major AFCON Tournament
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00:03 This tournament took place in Ivory Coast as well.
00:06 To add to the mystique, this is a team that lost 4-0 to Equatorial Guinea in its
00:11 final group game, putting them in third place in their group out of four, and
00:18 completely out of their hands whether they were going to qualify for the
00:22 knockout stages or not.
00:23 So much so that they fired their coach before they figured out if they had even
00:29 advanced to the round of 16, which obviously they did.
00:34 And they get the new coach in, who's never coached before, and he just comes in and
00:39 he guides this team to a title, coming from behind in the knockout several times,
00:44 winning penalty shootouts, and taking down Nigeria in the final,
00:48 who was really the best team left, a heavy favorite in that game, and
00:52 doing it in front of their home country.
00:55 I mean, honestly, it's one of the more remarkable storylines that you'll ever
01:00 see in a major international tournament like this.
01:04 If you liked the World Cup, you thought Messi finally winning one was great, or
01:09 anything like this, this is up there with all of those.
01:12 I mean, it was a phenomenal story to follow.
01:15 I think kind of the whole world was rooting for them, really, and
01:19 it was just a completely night and day remarkable turnaround from how they
01:23 looked in the group stage, during which they lost to Nigeria, by the way.
01:27 They were in the same group in this competition.
01:29 And then to end up turning it all the way around, this was just a very fun
01:34 tournament to follow, sort of in the middle of all this club football that's
01:38 continued to go on.
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