THE Cte d’Ivoire’s football team is expected to be released on Wednesday after being held at a military camp outside Yamoussoukro after their defeat in the African Nations Cup, star footballer Basile Boli said.
Boli, a former French player of Ivorian descent, planned to visit the Zambakro camp but cancelled his trip after receiving a promise from the sports ministry of the players’ release.
After the team’s elimination in the first round of the tournament in Accra on Monday, the players were sent to the camp and had their passports and portable phones seized, according to Catherine Loiseau, a sports management consultant who spoke with the wife of Modibo Diallo who plays for Le Havre.