Yeah, sure. While I do not disconsider Ivory Coast and Drogba, bear in mind that they will play in the Death Group of this World Cup, with Argentina, The Netherlands and Serbia & Montenegro.

Well, Franz Beckenbauer says that they could reach the final if they come out of the groups. But, if you keep that line of thought, you would think that any team might play the final if they go through off the groups.

Actually, he might be quite right: if Ivory Coast manages to beat any of Argentina or The Netherlands for the first two spots, then they are a great team and they might make it to the finals. But, really…

“It’s a great challenge for them and there’s a prognostic that if Ivory Coast survives this group phase, they have a good chance to get to the final,” he said as a projector screen behind him counted down each second of the 175 remaining days until the tournament begins on June 9.

Source: reuters.co.uk