- PHOTO TAKEN 06APR04 - A young soccer player kicks the ball during training at the ASEC Mimosas academy in Abidjan, the capital of Ivory Coast, April 6, 2004. The academy is run by Abidjan's top soccer club to give promising young players an all-round education and intensive football training. [It has already produced graduates such as Arsenal defender Kolo Toure, Anderlecht striker Arouma Dindane and 10 members of the first-choice line-up for Belgian Cup finalists Beveren.)