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C\u00f4te d’Ivoire’s 2026 FIFA World Cup journey ended in disappointment, but Amad Diallo says the Elephants can leave North America proud after reaching the knockout stage for the first time in their history.<\/em><\/p>\n The African side were beaten 2-1 by Norway in the round of 32 at Dallas Stadium, bringing an end to a campaign that had already delivered a major breakthrough for Ivorian football.<\/p>\n C\u00f4te d’Ivoire had appeared at three previous World Cups without escaping the group stage, but Emerse Fa\u00e9’s young…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> C\u00f4te d’Ivoire’s 2026 FIFA World Cup journey ended in disappointment, but Amad Diallo says the Elephants can leave North America proud after reaching the knockout stage for the first time in their history. The African side were beaten 2-1 by Norway in the round of 32 at Dallas Stadium, bringing an end to a campaign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,54764,5958,6183,6555,6674,5959,21729,17162,13203,1218,257,15797,7228,254,5093],"class_list":["post-238053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amad","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-cup","tag-divoire","tag-diallo","tag-exit","tag-historic","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-pride","tag-run","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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