Population: 17 million

Capital: Yamoussoukro

Shirt: Orange

Nickname: The Elephants

Manager: Henri Michel

Website: Fédération Ivoirienne de Football

World ranking: 32

Odds: 50/1

Star man: Kolo Toure. The experience gained as a regular in Arsenal's backline is proving invaluable at the heart of the Ivorians' defence.

Squad: Click Here for the Ivory Coast squad

Ivory Coast will be hoping that a demoralizing defeat in the African Cup of Nations final earlier this year won't burst their World Cup balloon. But as enthusiastic debutants, they are likely to fight tooth and nail.

In their quest for Germany, the Ivory Coast cast off, among others, Cameroon's Indomitable Lions in an aggressive series of four wins and just one loss during qualification, putting the west African nation into the World Cup annals for the first time.

Didier Drogba is the team's star. The Chelsea striker found the back of the net nine times and, together with Aruna Dindane, was part of the African zone's most effective goal-scoring

World Cup News Ivory Coast

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