Toure wants no regrets

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Ivory Coast defender Kolo Toure on Thursday urged his national teammates to work hard and make sure the Elephants do not return from the World Cup with regrets.

The 33-year-old Liverpool centre back and the rest of the 28-member squad are fine tuning in Dallas, Texas, after which two friendly matches will be played against Bosnia on May 30 and Salvador on June 4.

Pitted against Colombia, Japan and Greece in Group C, the former Arsenal and Manchester City defender said the Ivorian team fell in a balanced group this time.

“Our Group C is balanced unlike in previous editions when we had difficult situations,” Kolo said.

“We played against Brazil, Portugal and Argentina and those times were our first and second appearances in the World Cup finals. This time, we feel the group is quite balanced and we’ll be able to have our say.”

“But beside our initial objective of progressing from the group stage, we don’t want to return home with regrets, that is being unable to do the things we were capable of doing. That’s what I have been telling my mates,” he said.