Ivory Coast’s coach, Sabri Lamouchi, has excluded Kolo Touré and Emmanuel Eboué from his selection of players to face Morocco on September 7. However, he has included veteran Didier Drogba, who returned in a friendly against Mexico in mid-August. Two players from Ivorian Ligue 1, goalkeepers Sylvain Gbohou from Séwé Sport and Badra Ali Sangare from Ivoire Académie, have also been called up.
The Ivory Coast has already secured qualification for the play-offs of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers. The squad for the upcoming match is as follows:
Goalkeepers:
- BARRY Boubacar (Lokeren, Belgium)
- GBOHOUO Sylvain (Séwé Sport, CIV)
- SANGARE Badra Ali (Ivoire Academie, CIV)
Defenders: 4. TIENE Siaka (Montpellier, France)
- ANGOUA Benjamin (Valenciennes, France)
- AURIER Serge (Toulouse, France)
- BAMBA Souleman (Trabzonspor, Turkey)
- BOKA Arthur (Stuttgart, Germany)
- DIARRASSOUBA Viera (Caykur Rizespor, Turkey)
- DJA DJEDJE Brice (Evian, France)
- ZOKORA Didier (Trabzonspor, Turkey)
Midfielders: 12. GOSSO-GOSSO Jean-jacques (Gençlerbirliği SK, Turkey)
- TIOTE Cheickh (Newcastle, England)
- RAZAK Abdul (Manchester City, England)
- YA KONAN Didier (Hannover, Germany)
- ANDERSON Bobley (Malaga, Spain)
- SEREY DIE Geoffrey (Basel, Switzerland)
- TOURE Yaya Gnégnéri (Manchester City, England)
Attackers: 19. BOLLY Mathis (Dusseldorf, Germany)
- TRAORE Lacina (Anzhi, Russia)
- BONY Wilfried (Swansea, England)
- GERVINHO (AS Roma, Italy)
- DROGBA Didier (Galatasaray, Turkey)
- KALOU Salomon (Lille, France)
- SIO Giovanni (Wolfsburg, Germany)
