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
We win as a team, lose as a team and celebrate as a team. It didn't matter who got him out on the pitch, we just wanted him out there.
Quite simply, I'd be really proud to win this Cup. A continental title means a great deal.
Every game is getting more difficult. Every team respects us more and defends more, looks only for the counter-attack, tries to reduce the time of the game, and fights with their strengths to make everything difficult.
Didier, it's done!' he shouted. That made me smile and since then Michael has seemed happy with everything like a kid. He is great to have around the place, he's thirsty for knowledge and he's a great player as well.
We played very well together. We both scored and it was fantastic for the confidence. It is easier for me when I have someone to play behind me or with me.
I think this is a big final and everybody is waiting for this game.
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.
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.
Those people who are saying that are just playing mind games and trying to turn up the pressure.
When I scored the two goals I was very fit and now I'm coming back, so I can't promise to score two goals
Unfortunately in the emotion of winning the game my comments have come across partly in the wrong way. I want to make clear that I don't dive.