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Ivory Coast began its campaign in the African Cup of Nations’ toughest group with a 1-0 win over South Africa on Monday.Mali provided the biggest victory so far at the tournament in Egypt by beating debutant Mauritania 4-1.In Cairo https://www.thetopsoccer.com/uswnt/mallory-pugh-jersey , the Ivorians edged an early crunch game in Group D against South Africa when Jonathan Kodjia finished neatly from a cross by Max Gradel in the second half.The striker’s goal was enough, although Nicolas Pepe hit the crossbar with a free kick for Ivory Coast in the first half and was denied again near the end when another free kick was saved brilliantly by Ronwen Williams.Pepe’s late effort was heading for the top corner until Williams got his fingertips to it to push it inches over the crossbar.The group has three former champions in Ivory Coast, South Africa and Morocco and has been dubbed the so-called group of death. Morocco beat Namibia 1-0 on Sunday.Mali’s victory over Mauritania — to go top of Group E — started and ended with two of the best goals of the opening four days of the African Cup.Abdoulay Diaby weaved through Mauritanian defenders and unleashed a shot from distance into the top right corner for 1-0. Adama Traore underlined Mali’s dominance with his left-footed curler into the top left corner to end the scoring.In between, Moussa Marega scored a penalty and Adama Noss hit a low shot from right on the edge of the area to make it 3-0.El Hacen El Id converted the second penalty kick of the game to give Mauritania its first ever Cup of Nations goal and cut the lead to 3-1.Traore scored the fourth just two minutes after that to make certain there was no chance of a comeback for the newcomers.Mauritania is the third team making its debut at the Cup of Nations this year but is the first to look a little out of its depth. The other debutants are Burundi, which pushed Nigeria all the way before losing 1-0, and Madagascar, which drew 2-2 with Guinea.Earlier in the same group, Tunisia gave up its advantage with a goalkeeper error to draw 1-1 with Angola.Youssef M’Sakni gave Tunisia the lead in the first half from the penalty spot after a strange tackle by Dani Massungona.Massungona launched himself star-shaped Becky Sauerbrunn Jersey , with arms and legs all spread out, to try and block a run by Naim Sliti. He only succeeded in chopping Sliti down for the penalty, which Tunisia captain M’Sakni cooly converted.Angola’s late equalizer dampened Tunisia’s start on another hot day at the African Cup.It came when Tunisia goalkeeper Farouk Ben Mustafa dived to save a shot but pushed the ball straight to the feet of Djalma Campos, who scored into an empty net.Action in the last of the six groups starts Tuesday, when defending champion Cameroon plays for the first time. Cameroon faces Guinea-Bissau and Ghana opens against Benin. BERLIN (AP) — Bayern Munich is trying to ensure its future looks even brighter by capturing another rising star.Bayern has completed the deal it agreed on last offseason by signing 19-year-old Fiete Arp, the Bild newspaper reports. It just remains to be seen whether Arp joins Bayern after this season or in 2020, when his contract with Hamburger SV expires.“He’s a great talent, a good player Crystal Dunn Jersey ,” Bayern sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic acknowledged in Berlin late Wednesday, when he did all but confirm the transfer.Bayern is reportedly paying Hamburg 2.5 million euros ($2.85 million) for Arp.His signing continues the club’s recent policy of snapping up young players before they reach their full potential, such as Canadian teen Alphonso Davies and French defender Benjamin Pavard, or the likes of Leon Goretzka, Serge Gnabry and Kingsley Coman.Dubbed “Germany’s answer to Harry Kane,” Arp came to prominence as Germany captain at the European Under-17 Championship in Croatia in 2017. Arp scored the quickest hat trick in tournament history in 12 minutes against Bosnia and Herzegovina, grabbed another hat trick against Ireland, and scored another goal against the Netherlands before Germany eventually lost to eventual champion Spain in the semifinals.Hamburg’s bid to avoid relegation last season rested largely on Arp’s young shoulders. Still in school Kelley O'Hara Jersey , he became the first player born in this millennium to play in the Bundesliga, and also the first to score there, but he was unable to prevent Hamburg’s eventual relegation.Hamburg is on its way straight back to the Bundesliga as second-division leader but Arp has endured a frustrating season so far with just 11 league appearances, seven of those as a substitute.Arp failed to score at all in 2018. It’s possible all the attention and pressure took its toll.“I don’t know at all whether the year 2018 did so much on a sporting level,” Arp told the club magazine HSVlive in December. “I wasn’t able to concentrate properly for a long time. The sporting side was not as central in too many important phases as it should have been.”Despite going a year without a goal, Arp tried to remain positive.“I score in training. I haven’t un-learned it,” he said.Hamburg sporting director Ralf Becker defended the player who joined the club at age 10.“With all the hype there was about him a year ago, we shouldn’t forget that he’s still a very young player https://www.thetopsoccer.com/uswnt/lindsey-horan-jersey ,” Becker told Kicker magazine. “It’s clear, both he and we as a club expected the first half of the season to go differently. But the expectations of him are ridiculously high.”On Tuesday, Arp played a full game for the first time since December 2017 when he helped Hamburg beat Nuremberg 1-0 in the German Cup.