Breaking News:Resurrected’ Ivory Coast received a reprieve from the Africa Cup of Nations; they could now win it.

defeated the entire continent and fired a manager. Ivory Coast could end up facing a redemption story at the Africa Cup of Nations that would be un enough to make the Mighty Ducks, the Karate Kid, or even Rocky bish. The hosts of this year’s competition came dangerously close to losing embarrassingly early at home, but it appears that their bold choice paid off, as the Elephants are now just 90 minutes away from their first Afcon final in nearly ten years.

This, following a mere injury time away from an embarrassing exit. The top two teams advance from the group stage, as do four of the six teams in third place. Put another way, only the lowest eight teams from the initial 24 qualify for the Afcon knockout stages, and with two wins and a loss, Ivory Coast has put themselves squarely on the path to join that group. Up until the ninetieth minute of Ghana’s match against Mozambique, they were ranked fifth out of the six teams in third place. Ghana was ahead 2-0 at the time.

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Head coach Jean-Louis Gasset, however was not. His dismissal after Ivory Coast’s heaviest-ever defeat on home soil, 4-0 against Equatorial Guinea, left assistant coach Emerse Fae – capped 41 times in a playing career which saw him briefly feature for Reading – in charge for his first-ever job, with his debut match in charge coming against the reigning champions of Africa, Senegal.

But Jean-Louis Gasset, the head coach, wasn’t. Following his dismissal following Ivory Coast’s most crushing home loss ever, 4-0 against Equatorial Guinea, assistant coach Emerse Fae—who was capped 41 times during his playing career and made a brief appearance for Reading—took over for the first time as manager. His first game in charge was against Senegal, the current African champions.