- Title: TANZANIA: FOOTBALL/SOCCER - Ivory Coast football squad arrives
- Date: 4th January 2010
- Summary: POLICE TRYING TO CONTROL FANS AT THE AIRPORT (NIGHT SHOTS) WIDE VIEW OF IVORY COAST NATIONAL TEAM DISEMBARKING FROM PLANE IVORY COAST TEAM CAPTAIN, DIDIER DROGBA AND OTHER PLAYERS WALKING OUT OF PLANE MORE OF IVORIAN NATIONAL TEAM IN FRONT OF TEAM BUS DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA (JANUARY 3, 2010) (REUTERS) (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) PRESIDENT, TANZANIA FOOTBALL FEDERATION (TFF), LEODEGAR TENGA GREETING IVORIAN NATIONAL TEAM LEADERS HEAD TABLE AT NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) LEODEGAR TENGA, PRESIDENT OF TANZANIA FOOTBALL FEDERATION, SAYING "We have here in Tanzania the leaders and players of a World Class Team." REPRESENTATIVES OF TAIFA STARS PLAYERS / JOURNALIST IN THE BACKGROUND IVORIAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT, JACQUES ANOUMA IVORY COAST NATIONAL TEAM COACH, VAHID HALIL HODZIC TANZANIA NATIONAL TEAM COACH, MARCIO MAXIMO DROGBA SIGNING A T-SHIRT FANS AND JOURNALISTS FOLLOWING DROGBA TO THE HOTEL ELEVATOR
- Embargoed: 19th January 2010 12:00
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- Topics: Sports
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- Story Text: Didier Drogba and other members of Ivory Coast's national team arrived in Tanzania on Saturday (January 2) to play a series of friendly matches ahead of the 2010 African Cup of Nations (CAN) in Angola later in January.
The team was received by members of Tanzania's Football Federation (TFF) and several football fans.
Tanzania has been marketing itself as a training destination for teams headed to the World Cup in South Africa in July 2010.
At a news conference in Dar es Salaam on Sunday (January 3), Tanzania Football Federation President Leodgar Tenga expressed pride.
"We have here in Tanzania the leaders and players of the World Class Team," Tenga said.
Tanzania's Taifa Stars will play the Elephants in two matches scheduled for January 4 and January 7 at the national stadium in Dar es Salaam.
They will come face to face with other household names like Barcelona's Yahya Toure, Chelsea's Solomon Kallou and Manchester City Defender, Kolo Toure who ply their trade in European clubs.
The Ivorians meet Ghana and Burkina Faso in Group B at the Cup of Nations between January 10 and January 31. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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