Some countries plan for tournaments for years, work on projects and development and DNA, meticulously lay out their blueprint for success. And some just wing it, finding amid the chaos a sense of purpose and momentum that, being unexpected, somehow makes them all the more potent.
Ivory Coast have looked out of this Africa Cup of Nations on at least three occasions, and sacked their coach after the group phase, but it is they who will face Nigeria in the final on Sunday.
