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Cairo – Samia Sayed – The national team battalion led by its Portuguese coach, Carlos Queiroz, wished itself to repeat history when it meets in a difficult confrontation in the round of 16 of the 2021 African Cup of Nations currently being held in Cameroon once morest Cote d’Ivoire.
Thirteen years have passed since the Ivorian elephants bowed to the brilliance of the Pharaohs, specifically in 2008 when the national team managed to cross the Côte d’Ivoire station in the African Cup of Nations semi-finals by winning them four goals once morest a goal. He scored for the Pharaohs Ahmed Fathi in the 6th minute, Amr Zaki in the 67th and 61st minutes and Abu Trika in the The “90 + 1” minute, while Abdelkader Keita scored the only goal of the Elephants in the 63rd minute.
The national team started the match with a formation consisting of: Essam El-Hadary – Ahmed Fathi, Wael Gomaa, Shadi Mohamed, Sayed Moawad (Mahmoud Fathallah) – Hani Saeed, Ahmed Hassan, Mohamed Abu Trika, Hosni Abd Rabbo – Amr Zaki (Ibrahim Saeed) and Emad Miteb (Mohamed Zidan).
While the Côte d’Ivoire team started the match with a formation consisting of: Aboubacar Barry (Stephan Leboué) – Emmanuel Eboue, Abdou Lai Mitee, Habib Kolo Toure, Arthur Boca – Didier Zokora and Salomon Kalou (Baccari Kone), Yaya Toure and Orna Dendan (Aruna Kader Kone) – Didier Drogba and Abdel Keta.
The Côte d’Ivoire team was the strongest in Africa at the time, as it included among its ranks a group of the strongest professionals in Europe, led by Drogba, Yaya Toure and Bakary Kone, and the Elephants team was seeking revenge once morest the Pharaohs following kidnapping the 2006 African Nations title from among the tusks of elephants in Cairo.
In Kumasi, the match started amid a sweeping attack from the Cote d’Ivoire team and an unparalleled brilliance by the Pharaohs’ goalkeeper Issam El-Hadary..
Ahmed Fathi’s goal caused 3 more goals to be received, so that the Pharaohs won with a big score of 4/1, which no one might achieve, and the Pharaohs qualified for the final and met the Cameroon team, and the Egyptian team won with a clean goal, announcing the second title in a row.
Egypt holds the record for the number of times to win the African Cup of Nations with 7 titles, followed by Cameroon with 5 titles, Ghana with 4 titles, and Nigeria with 3 titles..
The last crowning of the Egyptian team was the African Cup of Nations title in 2010 in Angola, and for the third time in a row following 2006 in Egypt and 2008 in Ghana.
