Didier Drogba
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"Tébily Didier Yves Drogba", known as "Didier Drogba", is an Ivorian professional Association football/footballer who plays for Chelsea F.C./Chelsea in the Premier League as a Forward (association football)#Striker/striker, and is the Top international association football goal scorers by country/all-time top scorer and former Captain (association football)/captain of the Ivory Coast national football team/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 List of Chelsea F.C. records and statistics#All-time top goalscorers/fourth highest goal scorer of all time. In October 2012, he was voted by Chelsea supporters as the club's greatest ever player. He has also been named African Footballer of the Year twice, winning the accolade in 2006 and 2009.

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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.

[Didier Drogba has taunted Chelsea's Premiership rivals, saying they are running scared of the West Londoners.] It must be frightening for our rivals when we are not playing well but still winning every game, ... When we play badly our rivals must think: 'What are Chelsea going to be like when they are playing well'?

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.

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.

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.

Like all players, I want to be more than just my side's secret weapon. I want to show that I can make a contribution to the team over the game as a whole. That's what I'm working on and I've set myself a target for breaking into the first eleven. But if I don't, it will be because the coach feels the time isn't right and I will respect his decision, as I always do.

Our number one opponents are not Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester United. It is ourselves at Chelsea.

I'm having a great night. I'm very hopeful that we will win the Premiership and I hope we do well against Wigan this weekend.

If such events should occur (again), I would no longer take the risk to come and play for the national team.