Didier Drogba
Didier Drogba
Didier Yves Drogba Tébilyis an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Canadian Major League Soccer club Montreal Impact. He is the all-time top scorer and former captain of the Ivory Coast national team. He is best known for his career at Chelsea, for whom he has scored more goals than any other foreign player and is currently the club's fourth highest goal scorer of all time. He has been named African Footballer of the Year twice, winning...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth11 March 1978
CityAbidjan, Ivory Coast
I think this is a big final and everybody is waiting for this game.
If such events should occur (again), I would no longer take the risk to come and play for the national team.
My family are really enjoying living in London. My daughter and my son are speaking English very well. Better than me. They are only four and five. I like London. My first year was difficult because of the language and not being able to speak it very well. When you can speak, it is very easy to live here.
No excuses. It is a difficult game, it is a derby, but we have to win because Man United is not so far behind.
No goals conceded is the most important thing for us. If we want to do the same thing as last year we have to do better than last year and concede fewer goals. I think we can do better than last season.
Nobody likes to be substituted but solidarity with the team always comes first.
Maybe we spend a lot of money, but this money is not spent for nothing. We won the League and Carling Cup last season, we went to the semifinal of the Champions League and this year we are top of the League. Sometimes you have to spend money for the good reason and this is the good reason.
In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.
Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.
He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.
When you don't win games, yeah, you lose confidence. That's normal.
All the fans know my love for Chelsea and I hope to be back here in the future in another role.
Football can generate excitement and bring people together.
When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.