Neighbors and rivals Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast will play a friendly on Saturday that will have a competitive edge since a match between the two nations always has regional bragging rights at stake. Burkinabé star playmaker Bertrand Traoré emphasized that there is a “brotherhood” when it comes to the two countries and that the teams will keep the rivalry strictly limited to who plays the better football on the day, keeping a calm disposition. Burkinabé website Sportdrome has the full comments from Traoré in the first link below.
Ivorian site Mondial Sport has a video from the Ivorian Football Federation that shows the Elephants in their final preparations leading up to the match in the link below Sportdrome’s article.
