Ivory Coast celebrate to 'fairy tale' home AFCON win

Emerse Fae, Serge Aurier and Max-Alain Gradel react to the Ivory Coast's rollercoaster home AFCON win.

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00:00 It's more than a fairy tale. I still have a hard time realizing that we did it.

00:09 When I think about everything we've been through, during the competition, the difficult moments,

00:17 the moments we've been through, the moments we came back to at the last minute, it's extraordinary.

00:24 It's an enormous chance. We were miraculously able to get the cup because we didn't give up.

00:32 We fought until the end and showed that we were men and that we knew how to bounce despite the tough moments.

00:40 Yes, boss. We're happy to be able to give pleasure to all the Ivorians.

00:47 It's clear that we didn't win from the start, but today we're all proud and happy.

00:52 I hope we can take advantage of this moment to all reconcile and enjoy it again and again.

01:02 We have a demanding audience, but I ask them to enjoy this moment because we know it won't happen again.

01:13 It might happen in 10, 20, 30, 40 years. So enjoy this moment.

01:19 We organised the best cup in history. It's incredible. It's magnificent.

01:25 The management was perfect tonight.

01:27 Sorry?

01:28 We felt that the management was perfect, even if Nigeria scored the goal.

01:32 Yes, we knew that we could score at any time. So we didn't have to give up.

01:37 We had to continue doing what we were doing well.

01:39 We managed to score the two goals we needed to win that game.