The international defender from Paris Saint-Germain, stalwart of the Ivoirian selection, is unsure as to whether he will continue his journey with the Elephants.
“I’m hesitant. Soon it’ll be eleven years that I’ve been a member of the selection. So to miss that victory really affected me. But perhaps I’ll feel motivated again to continue. For now, I’m just thinking about it,” confided “Chico” to the newspaper, le Parisien.
Double Africa Cup of Nations finalist in 2006 and 2012 with Côte d’Ivoire, Siaka Tiéné was part of the crew in ASEC Mimosas’ heyday at the start of the 2000’s.
Playing alongside Marco Né, Baky Koné and Zézé Venance “Zézéto” as one of the very first members of the Académie MimoSifcom, founded in 1994 by former French international Jean-Marc Guillou and Roger Ouégnin, president of ASEC Mimosas, Tiéné made African football history on 7 February 1999.
On the occasion of the CAF Super Cup, which would see the experienced Espérance de Tunis come to blows with ASEC, Guillou decided to throw his Académiciens, whose average age was seventeen and a half years, into the deep end instead of the team that had been crowned continental champion a few months earlier.
Copa Barry, Kolo Touré, Didier “Maestro” Zokora, Siaka Tiéné and Gilles Yapi Yapo all ran onto the “Félicia” field.
The gobsmacked audience watched as the youngsters triumphed 3-1 in extra time, outclassing a Tunisian formation comprising amongst its players seven international veterans of the 1998 World Cup.
Thirteen years later, Chico’s possible retirement takes us back to Zézéto’s brace and to one of the biggest feats of the 20th century in continental football.
source : mtnfootball
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