Most players don't have the opportunity to go for academy trials; some don't have the benefit of playing for a team from an early age. But it didn't stop Didier Drogba aspiring to greatness. From the make-shift car park pitches of his hometown, Abidjan, to the Parisian streets, football wa ...

For the first stop on the Elite Series tour, the Nike Insider headed back to London and Manchester to give Rooney, Evra, Essien, Walcott and Drogba the first glimpse of the Elite Series. The insider sat down with the players to show how their input, feedback and testing contributed to the b ...

There are thousands of ways to wear the laces and even more things to do with them, but there's one way to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa: lace up. By wearing (NIKE)RED laces on their feet (or hands, heads, arms, waist…) Didier Drogba, Andrei Arshavin, Clint Dempsey, Deni ...

The groups are drawn, the matches set and history awaits. The chosen 32 have earned their tickets to South Africa. But belief and an appetite for glory will now be put to the test on the world’s biggest stage. Who’s hungry? Expect danger and perfection in equal doses when Drogb ...

In what was to be a routine match against Malawi, the Elephants left their biggest names on the bench and found themselves down 1-0 in the 63rd minute. Enter Didier Drogba. Two minutes on the pitch and the Ivorian superstar equalized, sending his homeland into the finals for the second suc ...