Cote d’Ivoire legend Gervinho made a U-turn to feature for the Elephants in their 1-0 defeat to Japan in Tuesday’s international friendly.
After drawing with Belgium, the number one ranked football nation, last week the Ivory Coast fell 1-0 to Japan in the Dutch city of Utrecht.
Unmarked Naomichi Ueda snatched a late Japanese winner with a diving far-post header past goalkeeper Sylvain Gbohouo.
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