ASM: Beside Ivory Coast, can you pick four teams you think played very well at the
tournament?
Cheick Tioté: Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo and Algeria
ASM: Budding talents across Africa followed the tournament across three weeks and
would wish to represent their respective countries someday at the AFCON level. What
do you think they must do to realise that dream?
Cheick Tioté: It is not impossible. They only need to keep working and dreaming. I was in their
shoes before. I used to watch football on TV and wondered if I would one day be able to play
for people to watch me on the screen. I believed in it and worked towards it. But I must confess
it doesn’t come on a platter of gold.
You must sacrifice a number of things like wasteful friendship, dr inking and smoking,
dangerous plays and sometimes some kind of food. You also need to work harder than the
group work.
I can conclude that the 2015 Afcon was an exciting and rich experience.
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Cheick Tioté and teammate Yaya Toure on assignment