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
Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.
I think finals are there to be won, you know the feeling of losing a final is really bad. I prefer to lose a semi-final, quarter-final because I know I will forget... But the feeling of losing a final stays here forever. Even if you win two, three, four, five it stays. You know, I’m too scared to lose, so I give everything to win.
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.
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.
This is the reward of all my hard work, but also a sign of encouragement that I can still get better. I know that I am capable.
If such events should occur (again), I would no longer take the risk to come and play for the national team.
I think this is a big final and everybody is waiting for this game.
I was a bit tired in this game, so I was happy to get a penalty. I'll be stronger in the next matches.
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.
I've had one month's holiday and I'm fresh now.
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.
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