Cairo — Bafana Bafana were structured and held their own but they were just too timid, losing 1-0 to the awesome player power of Ivory Coast in their opening 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Group D fixture at Cairo’s Al Salam Stadium on Monday.

Aston Villa’s beast of a centre-forward, Jonathan Kodjia, produced a nimble finish for a big man for the  Ivorians’ 65th-minute winner...

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