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AFCON: Le Roy, man with Midas touch chasing Afcon glory

Congo's coach Claude Le Roy reacts during the 2015 African Cup of Nations group A football match between Equatorial Guinea and Congo at Bata Stadium in Bata on January 17, 2015. AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI

When Ivory Coast play Togo tonight from 7pm at the Stade d’Oyem in Oyem, more focus will be out of the field, rather than in it.

Not to mean the big boys on the well-manicured 20,500-seater stadium will be serving us with lackluster shows. Far from it. But, for the lovers of antiquity, Claude Le Roy will be the man of the moment.

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