Laurent Pokou
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Laurent Pokou is a former footballer
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 from Ivory Coast, who works for Académie de Sol Beni
Académie de Sol Beni
-History:The Academy was founded from Jean-Marc Guillou in 1993, the club is a chapter of the Centre Technique National de Bingerville.-Satellite clubs:The following clubs are affiliated with Académie de Sol Beni: K.S.K...

 as Head Coach.

Career

He was a notable striker
Striker
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 for French
France
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 club Stade Rennais.

International career

Pokou is a former member of the Ivory Coast national football team, who was twice the highest goalscorer of the Africa Cup of Nations, scoring six goals in the 1968 tournament
1968 African Cup of Nations
The 1968 African Cup of Nations was the sixth edition of the African Cup of Nations, the soccer championship of Africa . It was hosted by Ethiopia. The field expanded to eight teams, split into two groups of four; the top two teams in each group advanced to the semifinals...

 in Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

 and eight in the 1970 edition
1970 African Cup of Nations
The 1970 African Cup of Nations was the seventh edition of the African Cup of Nations, the soccer championship of Africa . It was hosted by Sudan. Just like in 1968, the field of eight teams was split into two groups of four...

 in Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

, including 5 in one match against Ethiopia
Ethiopia national football team
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, which Ivory Coast won 6-1. This performance gave him his nickname L'homme d'Asmara (the man of Asmara
Asmara
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). With 14 total goals, he is also the tournament's second highest overall goalscorer, behind Cameroon's
Cameroon national football team
The Cameroon national football team, nicknamed Les Lions Indomptables , is controlled by the Fédération Camerounaise de Football and is Africa's most successful side in FIFA world cup; having qualified for the FIFA World Cup six times – in 1982, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2010– more than any...

 Samuel Eto'o
Samuel Eto'o
Samuel Eto'o Fils is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Russian team Anzhi Makhachkala. He is also the current captain of the Cameroon national team.Eto'o trained at Kadji Sports Academy...

, who eclipsed Pokou's record in the 2008 ACN tournament.

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