New Ivory Coast shirts 2009-10- African Cup of Nations

The new Ivory Coast ( Côte d’Ivoire) home and away football shirts for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 season have been released by kit maker Puma. They will be worn by Ivory Coast during the 2010 African Cup of Nations tournament.

The home shirt is primarily orange in colour. The ends of the sleeves are green in colour, and so is the inside of the collar. On the right hand side of the shirt, you can see the photo of an elephant ( Ivory Coast are nicknamed the Elephants)

The away jersey has green and white as its primary colours, but also has some horizontal orange lines.

These will be the shirts sported by the likes of Didier Drogba, Kolo Toure, Abdul Kader Keita, Didier Zokora, Emmanuel Eboue, Yaya Toure, Salomon Kalou and others when they represent the national team.

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Notts County sack manager McParland

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World Cup qualifying results- Africa- October 11

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