Goal.com · Oct 8, 2020
Gervinho’s Cote d’Ivoire return kept on ice in Belgium draw
Parma star Gervinho will have to wait for Tuesday’s international friendly against Japan to stage his Cote d’Ivoire senior national team return.
The 33-year-old was an unused substitute as the 2015 African kings played a 1-1 draw with Roberto Martinez’s team inside Brussel's King Baudouin Stadium.
Following the Elephants’ 2-0 home defeat to Morocco in a 2018 Fifa World Cup qualifier, the forward retired from international football – a consequence of the West Africans’ inability to qualify for Russia.
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