Didier Drogba
President of the Didier Drogba Foundation
Born on March 11, 1978, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Didier Yves Tebily Drogba left the shores of the Ébrié Lagoon at the age of 6 and embarked on an extraordinary destiny.
He spent most of his childhood in France under the guardianship of his uncle, Michel Goba, who was a professional footballer and former Ivorian international player at the time. he learned to run with a soccer ball at his feet. A model student, Didier Drogba has always been deeply involved in everything he undertook. Known for being a hard worker and always in pursuit of perfection, he remained a shy and introverted child who only revealed his strong personality on the football field, hinting at the future Chelsea striker.
His professional career began at Le Mans at the age of twenty, after being an amateur soccer player for many years. This marks the uniqueness of his atypical profile, as he never went through famous training centers. He trained alone and doubled his efforts to make a name for himself. After Guingamp, where he experienced the top division from 2001 to 2003, it was at Marseille that the global star we now know emerged.
He collected major trophies one after another: four-time English champion, four-time FA Cup winner, three-time Community Shield winner, and twice the Premier League’s top scorer. In 2012, he won the coveted UEFA Champions League trophy and left Chelsea as the club’s player of the century, the top African scorer in the Champions League, and the top African scorer in the English Premier League.
After a brief stint in China where he spent only six months, he excelled again in Turkey with Galatasaray. He stayed there for a year and a half, enough to become the Turkish champion, win the Turkish Cup, and be named Sports Personality of the Year. At the twilight of his career, Didier signed with the Montreal Impact for a year and a half, discovering "soccer" and writing some of the club’s most beautiful history.
He concluded his professional football career at the age of 40 in the American second division with Phoenix, after twenty years of professionalism, seven hundred matches played, and over 360 goals scored.
Alongside this well-rounded career, Didier Drogba founded his foundation in 2007, aiming to use his popularity to support education, health, women, and the youth of Ivory Coast and Africa. Numerous human development projects were initiated: building a health center, schools, and setting up a mobile clinic for cardiovascular disease screening… As a man of peace, he is also the vice-president of Peace and Sport. Indeed, in 2005, following Ivory Coast’s qualification for the World Cup in Germany, he, along with his teammates, sent a message of peace to his home country, which was experiencing internal crises. This message made him one of the ten most influential people in the world according to the prestigious Times Magazine.
Co-owner of the Phoenix Rising club in the United States, Didier Drogba wishes to become more involved in sports life and help the sports youth and the rise of Ivorian football.
Didier Drogba is a success story that never ends!
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