Product Description

Didier Drogba is one of the most talented and also most unpredictable players in English football. Brought to Chelsea by Jose Mourinho after success with Marseille in France, he quickly became one of the most lethal strikers in the Premiership and helped Chelsea to the highest success. But then Mourinho - whom Drogba idolised and whose Foreword reveals the admiration is mutual - departed, and the revolving door of managers that followed saw Drogba disaffected, injured, left out of the side and, the nadir, sent off in the 2008 Champions League final. But now under the new coach Guus Hiddink he is fit again and scoring high-pressure goals and a match for any defence. Characteristically, Drogba first published his autobiography in French, and not for him the empty succession of cliches about a great bunch of lads and a game of ninety minutes. This is a story of growing up in West Africa, then an unsettling emigration to France, and a rise to the highest echelon of football there before Chelsea's money came beckoning. It is a controversial book - Drogba found Chelsea in his first months a thoroughly unwelcoming and lonely place - and about much more than football: in his native Ivory Coast Drogba is a hero and even something of a political campaigner for whom peace and prosperity there is more important than any football bauble. Didier Drogba plays for Chelsea and the Ivory Coast.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74874 in Books
• Published on: 2009-08-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

A bit Luke warm for a Drogba fan
I couldn't have been any happier when i bought this.mind u i think autobiographies should be publised when one is 70-80 and has done something major.anyway,i am a big drogba fan and have loved him through out.
so what about the book.may be does not get full marks for literary style.however a good insight on the real person behind the face.lots of tales about his early life and his struggles so one can't end up feeling happy as he has made it. a bit dissapointed as(may be this is personal)as i wanted to know more about his time with chelsea.it just appears that he doesn't really want to be here.bit of a shame as we love him and i have a shirt saying: TOP DROG.
nevertheless a top striker and a good human being.all the best.