No.10: Toure redemption at the 2015 AFCON
Kolo Toure reached two finals with Liverpool - the League Cup and Europa League - and was extremely unlucky not to win a trophy during his time with the Reds. It was a theme echoed with his national team Ivory Coast, but all that changed at the 2015 African Cup of Nations.
The Liverpool defender, now 33 years old, announced prior to the tournament that it would be his last hurrah for Les Elephants. His seventh appearance at the AFCON finals would be his last. He would retire from international football after its conclusion.
The Liverpool man had come close to winning it in the past: Ivory Coast reached the final of the 2012 edition but Kolo, and Gervinho, missed penalties in the shootout and the title went to Herve Renard's Zambia.
Renard was now coach of Ivory Coast and the astute Frenchman played Toure in every game as they marched to the final in Equatorial Guinea, where they would face fellow African powerhouse Ghana.
It was an incredibly tight match. After 90 minutes in Bata, the two sides could not be separated and it remained goalless through 30 minutes of extra-time. The regulation penalty shootout couldn't even provide a winner and the game plunged into sudden-death spot kicks.
Toure had been in this territory before. He'd missed in 2012, but, with the score level at 4-4, he made no mistake here.
The shootout continued all the way through to the goalkeepers, when Boubacar Barry saved Brimah Razak's spotkick and then netted his own to secure victory.
Toure's final kick of the ball for Ivory Coast had helped them win only the second AFCON title in their history.