Hervé Renard’s happiness after the opening ceremony

French coach Herve Renard, a key figure in the recent history of African football after managing the national teams of Zambia, Angola, Ivory Coast and Morocco, has returned to Africa to celebrate the new African Cup of Nations, which opens this Saturday evening. in Abidjan. was asked by Sports, he did not hide his happiness at returning to a country and a continent he knows so well. As a reminder, the current coach of Les Bleus won the trophy, so dreamed of by millions of African supporters, with Zambia in 2012 and with Ivory Coast in 2015:

“It’s magnificent, I haven’t experienced this stadium which is brand new. We attended grand opening ceremonies like Ivory Coast. This African Cup will be a complete success and I wish them to go as far as possible. It will be magical, we can see it on the road leading to the stadium. They were waiting for the bus, they stopped two hours before the bus passed. It will be magical now. We should hope that Ivory Coast does well. With Jean-Louis Gasset I think everything will be fine, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed for him. And let the party go on!”