{"id":71515,"date":"2026-09-26T06:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/?p=71515"},"modified":"2026-09-26T06:20:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T06:20:34","slug":"what-a-story-in-2022-a-16-year-old-malick-yalcouye-watched-an-ivory-coast-training-session-and-grabbed-a-photo-with-franck-kessie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/26\/what-a-story-in-2022-a-16-year-old-malick-yalcouye-watched-an-ivory-coast-training-session-and-grabbed-a-photo-with-franck-kessie\/","title":{"rendered":"What a story. In 2022, a 16-year-old Malick Yalcouy\u00e9 watched an Ivory Coast training session and grabbed a photo with Franck Kessi\u00e9."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four years later, Yalcouy\u00e9 made his Ivory Coast debut and scored his first international goal \u2014 assisted by Kessi\u00e9. He then won a penalty, which Kessi\u00e9 stepped up to convert. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd29\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t58\/1\/16\/1f929.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude4c\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tfd\/1\/16\/1f64c.png\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Football really does write the best stories. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\u2764\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t6c\/1\/16\/2764.png\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years later, Yalcouy\u00e9 made his Ivory Coast debut and scored his first international goal \u2014 assisted by Kessi\u00e9. He then won a penalty, which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71517,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71515\/revisions\/71517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}