One nation under a groove – Ivory Coast 2 Japan 1

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Who are the best team at the World Cup? Think I’ve already seen them.

They are the Ivory Coast fan band. Six drums, five male drummers and 25-30 synchronised maracas shakers/dancers, most of them women.

They hammered out a faultless rhythm throughout both halves of an enthralling opening game in Recife.

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Why I’m supporting my boys – Ivory Coast

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At 3am, seven hours after Germany’s 4-2 win over Costa Rica, a 60-year-old pianist was banging on his old Joanna in the middle of Munich.

Outside the Town Hall, he was cranking out ditties to a motley crew of crazy Costa Ricans, drunken Germans, moustachioed, sombreroed and short Mexicans and two Welsh guys high as red kites on 2006 World Cup fever.

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