It's Never Too Late
03 June 2010
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 was a daily ritual for Didier.
Eventually, at 15, he got the chance to take his love for the game to the next level.
The intensity of training at his local youth team demanded he stepped up; he responded with two prolific seasons and the scouts soon came knocking.
Injury threatened to stall his late-blosso ...
Preparing The Elite: London and Manch ...
02 June 2010
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 ...
Lace Up
31 January 2010
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 ...
32 nations, 1 mission
09 December 2009
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 ...
Two minutes
11 October 2009
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 ...
Speed kills
05 October 2009
Strikers are judged on goals.
But on Sunday, Drogba demonstrated the importance of every area of a centre forward’s game.
His electric pace and storming power laid on the two goals that gave his team all three points and left them standing at the top of the league.
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