Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Didier Drogba
Didier Drogba was one of the most important players that Cote d'Ivoire had. Without rejecting Laurent Pokou, Youssouf Fofana, Joël Tiehi and Ibrahima Bakayoko, since none of them had as much influence as Didier Drogba, at the moment captain and emblem of the team.
Didier was born in one of the places but poor from Abidjan, in fact in Yopougon. After turning the 5 years of age this boy it emigrated toward France to meet with their uncle Michel Goba, former player of coast of Ivory who had an important paper in the one on the way to Didier until transforming into a professional.
In 1997, he sign their first contract professional with the Le Mans, of the second French division in that moment, where he play for 5 years.
Bothered by some lesions, alone it was able to transform 12 goals in 64 games, reason for the one which the French club Avant of Guingamp that newly ascended to the first division was interested in acquiring the player.
Drogba in this team converted 17 goals and it was this way as the big teams they began to carry out offers for this tremendous one front that had a prodigious future.
It was Marseilles the team that was able to acquire the player where Drogba made a very quick adaptation and where the fans took himvery quick affection, and starting from this the forward transformed into a star of national and international category. By means of the contraction of Drogba Marseilles reaches the final of the UEFA champions league, and Drogba the best player in the year it was voted in France.
Thanks to the 19 goals of League and 11 in Europe stirred up the interest of Román Abramovich, proprietor in that moment of Chelsea F.C., Drogba accepted the great offer of 32 millions of euros of Chelsea F.C.
After all these roundtrips he had a great success with their country, in the 2003 it was their premiere against Sudrafica, although he could not score in their first left Drogba he is now a captain and relating of Cote d'Ivoire.
At the moment Didier Drogba is one of the most important players in the English club Chelsea F.C