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6 of the best Ones to watch in Ivory Coast

1 Oumar DIAKITE

IVORY COAST

After years of searching for a successor to national team record scorer Didier Drogba, the Ivorians might finally have found their man.

The teenager from ASEC Abidjan moved to Red Bull Salzburg in 2022 and spent last season at their satellite club FC Liefering in the Austrian second division, where he consistently rattled in the goals – enough to convince Reims to sign him for a reported €2.5 million at

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