Didier Drogba

Didier Drogba
Didier Drogba (2014)
Personnel
Surname	Didier Yves Drogba Tébily
birthday	March 11, 1978
place of birth	Abidjan ,  Ivory Coast
size	189 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
1986-1991	USL Dunkerque
1991-1993	OC Vannes
1993-1997	Levallois SC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1998-2002	Le Mans FC	64 0(12)
2002-2003	EA Guingamp	45 0(20)
2003-2004	Olympique Marseille	35 0(19)
2004–2012	Chelsea FC	226 (100)
2012-2013	Shanghai Shenhua	11 00(8)
2013-2014	Galatasaray Istanbul	37 0(15)
2014-2015	Chelsea FC	28 00(4)
2015-2016	Montreal Impact	39 0(24)
2017-2018	Phoenix Rising	26 0(17)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2002-2014	Ivory Coast	104 0(65)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of career 2 Status: end of career

Didier Yves Drogba Tébily (born March 11, 1978 in Abidjan ) is a former Ivorian football player . He is the record scorer for the Ivorian national team , for which he played from 2002 to 2014. He has been voted Africa's Footballer of the Year twice .

For most of his career, Drogba was active for Chelsea and is closely associated with the London club. He was under contract with Chelsea between 2004 and 2012 and again from 2014 to 2015. For the Blues Drogba completed 254 Premier League games , scoring 104 goals and 63 assists . Drogba won the English championship four times with Chelsea. In 2012 he decided the final of the UEFA Champions League , Chelsea's greatest success ever, with the equalizer and the final penalty in the subsequent penalty shoot-out . At the age of 32, Drogba was the Premier League's oldest top scorer with 29 goals in the 2009-10 season. This record was only broken in the 2019/20 season with 23 goals from Jamie Vardy at the age of 33.

life and career

Didier Drogba was born in 1978 in Abidjan , the capital of the Ivory Coast at the time , as the son of a bank clerk and a typist. At the age of five, his parents sent him to France , where he lived with his uncle, the professional footballer Michel Goba . In 1986 he joined the youth team of the USL Dunkerque club .

In 1991 his entire family moved to France. In 1999 he signed his first professional contract at UC Le Mans .

societies

Beginnings

At the beginning of his career at Le Mans and Guingamp, Drogba was still playing as a right-back , but his talent for the offensive was soon recognized. 2002 wanted him Jose Mourinho already for FC Porto win, but his budget was not enough to commit to Drogba, so he remained at Guingamp.

Olympique Marseille

In 2003 he moved to Olympique Marseille. After his strongest season to date (2003/04), when he was third on the top scorer list in France with 18 goals and scored 11 goals in European competitions, he came second in the election for Footballer of the Year in Africa. After that season he finally became interesting for the top clubs in Europe. There were concrete offers from Chelsea and Juventus Turin .

Chelsea FC

Didier Drogba converts the decisive penalty in the 2012 Champions League final

Didier Drogba and John Terry with the 2015 Premier League title

Didier Drogba on the bus at the celebrations after the 2010 double

Although he initially wanted to stay in Marseille, he then moved to Chelsea, where he initially wore the shirt number 15. Later he got the number 11. Under José Mourinho , the coach of the London club at the time, he won the English championship in 2005 and 2006. In the 2006/07 season he won the League Cup and the FA Cup with Chelsea. In both finals he scored the decisive goals for Chelsea.

In 2008 he reached the final of the Champions League with Chelsea , in which Chelsea met Manchester United and lost on penalties. Since Drogba had received the red card in the 116th minute for assault , he could no longer be used in the penalty shoot-out.

In the 2009 FA Cup final , he equalized before Frank Lampard scored the winning goal.

In the 2009/10 season , Chelsea secured the championship on the final day of the match with an 8-0 win over Wigan Athletic . Drogba contributed three goals in this game and was thus able to put on the sole top scorer's crown with a total of 29 goals. Just days later, Drogba scored the only goal in Chelsea's 1-0 win in the FA Cup final against Portsmouth FC with a free kick, securing the Londoners the trophy.

On August 28, 2011, Drogba was hospitalized with a concussion after clashing with Norwich City goalkeeper John Ruddy . He made his comeback three weeks later against Swansea City and scored his first goal of the season in added time. On May 5, 2012 he met in the FA Cup final against Liverpool (2-1) to 2-0, making him the first player to score in four FA Cup finals.

In the 2011/12 season he also reached the final of the Champions League with Chelsea at the Allianz Arena against FC Bayern Munich . With his equalizing goal to make it 1-1 in the 88th minute, he brought his team into extra time, in which he owed a penalty, which was without consequences, since Arjen Robben failed to Chelsea keeper Petr Čech . In the subsequent penalty shootout, Drogba converted the last penalty and made Chelsea the Champions League winner.

Shanghai Shenhua

Drogba (left) in the 2012 Shanghai Shenhua jersey

Drogba decided after the 2011/12 season not to extend his contract, which was running out in the summer of 2012, and moved to the Chinese first division club Shanghai Shenhua Liansheng FC . He signed a two and a half year contract ending December 31, 2014.

Galatasaray Istanbul

In the winter transfer period of the 2012/13 season, Drogba signed a contract with Turkish first division club Galatasaray Istanbul that ran until June 30, 2014. There was still a question mark behind the superstar's commitment, because Drogba's former club Shanghai Shenhua had denied him the release for to have given a change of club. Drogba relied on a release clause that allowed him to get out of his contract early if the club would not pay at least a month's salary. According to Drogba, three months' salary was not paid.

On February 1, 2013, he was registered for the Champions League squad from Galatasaray. On February 12, 2013 Drogba received a temporary gaming license from the Turkish Football Association TFF . In his league debut, a 2-1 away win over Akhisar Belediyespor , Drogba scored 3 minutes after his substitution to make it 1-0 and also prepared the 2-0. On April 19, 2013 he scored the 100th goal in the league game against Sanica Boru Elazığspor in the Türk Telekom Arena . At the end of the 2012/13 season he became champions of the Süper Lig with Galatasaray.

On August 11, 2013 Drogba won the Turkish Supercup with Galatasaray . In the game against Fenerbahçe Istanbul he scored the decisive 1-0 for his team during extra time. At the end of the season he won the Turkish Cup. In an interview with the club's own broadcaster 'GS TV', he confirms that he will not extend his expiring contract.

Return to Chelsea

For the 2014/15 season returned Drogba to Chelsea back. He received a contract until the end of the season. In the 2014/15 season, Drogba appeared in 28 league games for Chelsea and scored four goals.

Didier Drogba (left) next to Julian Baumgartlinger in the international match against Austria on November 14, 2012

Change to Montreal

To July 27, 2015 Drogba joined the Canadian MLS - Franchise Montreal Impact . He played his first game for Impact on August 22, 2015, when he was substituted on in the 59th minute on matchday 6 in the game against Philadelphia Union . In the following game against Chicago Fire he was on the grid for the first time. He scored a hat trick in that game . Overall, Drogba was used in eleven games in the regular season , scoring eleven goals. In doing so, he helped Montreal Impact reach the playoffs, in which he played three games and scored another goal against Toronto FC . Impact was eliminated in the conference semifinals against the Columbus Crew from the playoffs.

At the start of the 2016 MLS season , Drogba missed four of the first five games of the season due to knee problems playing and training on artificial turf pitches . Instead, he kept fit in Sacramento at the USL club Sacramento Republic .

Phoenix Rising

In March 2017, Drogba completed a trial training session at the USL franchise Phoenix Rising , where he played a few test matches with Shaun Wright-Phillips . On April 13, 2017, it was announced that Drogba had signed a contract with Phoenix Rising for the 2017 season. You can then switch to management. In his first season, Drogba scored ten goals in 14 games.

In March 2018, Drogba announced that he would end his career after the 2018 season.

National team

On September 8, 2002, he made his first international match in the Africa Cup qualifier against South Africa . In his second international match on February 11, 2003, he scored his first international goal in a 3-0 win against Cameroon . The Ivory Coast failed to qualify for the 2004 African Cup , and so the 2006 African Cup was his first tournament with the national team. In the final against Egypt , Ivory Coast lost on penalties. With three goals Drogba was one of the top scorers of the tournament.

Drogba qualified for the 2006 World Cup with the Ivorian national team and scored the Ivory Coast's first World Cup goal in the first game against the Argentinian national soccer team with a 1: 2 goal. In the second preliminary round match of the 2006 World Cup against the Netherlands , he received his second yellow card and was therefore suspended for the last preliminary round against Serbia-Montenegro , which Ivory Coast won 3-2.

In 2008 they reached fourth place in the African Championship, in which the Ivory Coast had scored the most goals with 16 goals - three of them by Drogba. In 2010 they were eliminated in the quarter-finals.

Ivory Coast also qualified for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Drogba broke his right elbow while preparing, but was able to play at the World Cup with a cuff. After a 0-0 win against Portugal , a 1-3 win against Brazil , with Drogba scoring the goal to make it 3-1, and a 3-0 win against North Korea , the Ivory Coast was eliminated in third place .

At the 2012 African Cup of Nations, he and his team reached the final against Zambia with five wins and no clean sheet . There he missed a penalty in the 70th minute. In the penalty shootout, he converted his penalty as the fifth shooter from Ivory Coast. But since Kolo Touré and Gervinho missed, the Ivory Coast lost the penalty shoot-out 7-8.

He was the captain of the Ivorian national team for eight years and is their record scorer. He scored his 50th goal on August 10, 2011 in a 4-3 win over Israel . Drogba scored a total of 65 goals in 104 appearances for the Ivory Coast in his international career.

At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, he was used from the bench in the first two group matches against Japan and Colombia . Only in the last group game against Greece he played from the start. However, he could not prevent the narrow 1: 2 defeat and the associated elimination after the preliminary round. On August 8, 2014, he resigned from the national team.

successes

Didier Drogba with the Champions League trophy

As a national player

• Second in the African Cup of Nations in 2006 , 2012

With his clubs

• English champion : 2005 , 2006 , 2010 , 2015
• English cup winner : 2007 , 2009 , 2010 , 2012
• English league cup winner : 2005, 2007, 2015
• English Super Cup winner : 2005, 2009
• UEFA Champions League winner : 2012
• UEFA Champions League finalist : 2008
• Turkish champion : 2013
• Turkish Super Cup winner : 2013
• Emirates Cup winner: 2013
• Turkish Cup Winner : 2014

Awards

• Africa's Footballer of the Year : 2006, 2009
• Onze d'or : 2004
• Ligue 1 Player of the Year : 2004
• BBC African Footballer of the Year : 2009
• Chelsea Player of the Year : 2010
• Golden Foot : 2013
• UEFA Team of the Year : 2007
• FIFPro World XI : 2007
• Premier League Top Scorer : 2007, 2010
• UEFA Cup top scorer : 2004 (together with Sonny Anderson , Mateja Kežman and Alan Shearer )

Others

• In January 2007 he was appointed Goodwill Ambassador by the UN . Above all , he would like to campaign for AIDS programs.
• Together with the band Wills and the Willing and his teammate Michael Essien , Drogba recorded the song "Skin".
• Because of his humanitarian commitment and reputation, Didier Drogba was included in Time magazine 's prestigious list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010 .
• In September 2011 he was sworn in as a member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission , which is supposed to investigate the events during the government crisis 2010/2011 .
• Drogba is also socially committed in financial terms. So he donated z. B. in 2009 3 million euros for the construction of a hospital. This is the total amount he received from his sponsor, Pepsi, for an advertising contract.
• Based on the English warning sign Beware of the dog , the English sports press uses the phrase "Beware of the Drog" to point out Drogba's danger as a player.
• In November 2012, Drogba was voted “Best Player of All Time” in an official online poll of Chelsea fans.
• After the Soma mine disaster, Didier Drogba donated a million dollars to the relatives of the victims.

documentation

Éric Cantona hosted a documentary film that was aired on Arte in 2012 under the name Rebels am Ball . This documentation also sheds light on Drogba's commitment in his home country to contribute to the reconciliation of the hostile ethnic groups.

Style of play

Drogba has unusually good technique and speed for his stature and can be dangerous for the opposing goal both in the penalty area and from a distance. He plays almost with both feet and is considered a dangerous free-kick taker. In addition, he is characterized by his headball strength.

Personal

His cousin Olivier Tébily and his second nephew, Kenneth Zohoré , are also professional footballers. His uncle, Michel Goba , even played for the national team of his home country, as did Drogba himself.

Web links

Commons : Didier Drogba  - Collection of Images

• Didier Drogba in the database of MLSSoccer.com (English)
• Didier Drogba on the Premier League website
• Didier Drogba in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Premier League: Jamie Vardy oldest top scorer in history. July 27, 2020, accessed on July 28, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Claude Ladret: Didier Drogba, un attaquant hors normes. In: 01men.com. June 27, 2007, archived from the original on October 17, 2007 ; Retrieved January 30, 2017 (French). 
3. ↑ Harold Marchetti: Drogba, de Levallois au Vélodrome. In: La Parisienne November 28, 2003, accessed January 30, 2017 (French).
4. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/sport/fussball/international/drogba-wechselelt-zu-chelsea-1.1562721
5. ↑ Je Rejoins Le Shanghai Shenhua. Didier Drogba: Official homepage, June 20, 2012, archived from the original on July 27, 2014 ; Retrieved April 17, 2016 (French). 
6. ^ Farewell Didier Drogba. Chelsea FC , official homepage, May 22, 2012, archived from the original on August 6, 2012 ; accessed on April 17, 2016 (English). 
7. ^ Galatasaray: Confusion about Drogba transfer
8. ↑ Beckham, Anelka, Drogba are back. In: uefa.com.
9. ^ Player Certificate for Didier Drogba
10. ↑ Drogba: Shiny Debut. In: kicker online.
11. ↑ Chelsea FC: Drogba signs , July 25, 2014
12. ^ The Impact acquires striker Didier Drogba. In: impactmontreal.com. Retrieved July 28, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Drogba moves to the MLS. In: weltfussball.de. Retrieved July 28, 2015 . 
14. ↑ Didier Drogba scores has trick in first MLS start; Sounders edge Toronto FC. In: espnfc.com. Retrieved September 8, 2015 . 
15. ↑ Curious artificial turf ban: Didier Drogba misses the MLS start. In: eurosport.de. Eurosport Germany, March 4, 2016, accessed on March 17, 2016 . 
16. ↑ Didier Drogba to join Montreal Impact in Texas, could play vs. FC Dallas. In: MLSSoccer.com. March 16, 2016, accessed March 17, 2016 . 
17. ↑ FRIENDS REUNITED Chelsea legend Didier Drogba to make shock return with Phoenix Rising and join Shaun Wright-Phillips at lower league club in the US. In: MLSSoccer.com. March 16, 2016, accessed March 17, 2016 . 
18. ↑ Chelsea legend Didier Drogba joins American side Phoenix Rising as both player AND part-owner. In: dailymail.co.uk. Associated Newspapers Ltd, April 13, 2017, accessed April 13, 2017 . 
19. ↑ Drogba announces the end of his career. sport1.de, March 12, 2018, accessed on March 12, 2018 . 
20. ↑ Match report: Zambia - Ivory Coast. In: weltfussball.de.
21. ↑ Marcel Nasser: Didier Drogba - The Ivorian exceptional striker - Europapokal.de . In: Europapokal.de . June 13, 2017 ( europapokal.de [accessed June 15, 2017]).
22. ↑ fifa.com: "Drogba resigns from national team" ( Memento from October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
23. ↑ Chelsea Striker Didier Drogba Named One Of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People In The World
24. ↑ Football star in the reconciliation commission. In: the daily newspaper . September 28, 2011, accessed September 28, 2011 . 
25. ↑ Drogba donates 3 million to hospital
26. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
27. ↑ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/171329/Beware-of-the-Drog.html?print=yes
28. ↑ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/BEWARE+OF+THE+DROG.-a0238498941
29. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
30. ↑ http://www.deutsch-tuerkische-nachrichten.de/2014/05/502150/hilfe-fuer-hinterbliebene-von-soma-fussballstar-didier-drogba-spendet-eine-million-dollar/
31. ↑ Article on the documentation "Rebels on the Ball"
32. ↑ http://www.transfermarkt.de/fanreportage-die-top-talente-der-daenischen-liga/view/news/60420

predecessor	Office	successor
Pauleta	Ligue 1 Player of the Year 2004	Michael Essien