{"id":283336,"date":"2011-02-12T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/12\/i-want-to-play-in-the-2014-world-cup-%e2%80%93-chelsea-striker-didier-drogba\/"},"modified":"2011-02-12T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T08:44:00","slug":"i-want-to-play-in-the-2014-world-cup-chelsea-striker-didier-drogba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/12\/i-want-to-play-in-the-2014-world-cup-chelsea-striker-didier-drogba\/","title":{"rendered":"I want to play in the 2014 World Cup \u2013 Chelsea striker Didier Drogba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Kingsley Kobo<\/h3>\n<h4>12 Feb 2011 08:44:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"73.7471563981\">\n<div readability=\"16\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Didier Drogba, Ivory Coast v South Korea (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/a84ec9db90799_news.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Didier Drogba, Ivory Coast v South Korea (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"46.1161695447\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> talisman and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/c%C3%B4te-divoire\/770\/ivory-coast\">Ivory Coast<\/a>&#8216;s charismatic international <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/c%C3%B4te-divoire\/497\/didier-drogba\">Didier Drogba<\/a> is far from hanging up his boots, especially with the Elephants, even though local pundits believe his international career is waning.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old striker and all-time top scorer of the Ivorian national team told a local newspaper on Thursday that he would play at the 2014 FIFA World Cup to be hosted by Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Although his return to the Elephants during their 1-0 win over Mali in a friendly played in Valence, France on February 9 was widely saluted back home, many analysts still feel the former Olympique Marseille phenomenon needs to be rapidly preparing his international retirement, to leave space for the younger generation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not in the twilight of my career with C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire. I intend to participate in the next two African Cup of Nations &#8211; 2012 and 2013. I\u2019d also play my third World Cup in 2014 in Brazil,\u201d Drogba was quoted as saying by <em>L\u2019Inter.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following Ivory Coast&#8217;s uninspiring outing at the 2010 World Cup, Drogba momentarily pulled out of the set-up and spurned several call-ups from new indigenous coach Fran\u00e7ois Zahoui, but he finally made a comeback to play in the friendly against Mali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not leave like that. The day I decide to retire internationally, I\u2019ll take care to say goodbye to my fans. I\u2019ll never leave the team on tiptoe. So for now, I\u2019m here, whenever they call me, I will answer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Drogba will be 36 in 2014, still considerably younger than Cameroon football legend Roger Milla when he participated in his last World Cup at the age of 42.<\/p>\n<p>Drogba is still in the top 20 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.castrolfootball.com\/\">Castrol Rankings<\/a>, though he is currently 20th, down from 15th a month ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><em>For more <span>Castrol<\/span> rankings insights visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/news\/2939\/castrol-football-zone\">the <span>Castrol<\/span> Zone on Goal.com<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/a84ec9db90799_news-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/02\/12\/2348588\/i-want-to-play-in-the-2014-world-cup-chelsea-striker-didier\" title=\"I want to play in the 2014 World Cup \u2013 Chelsea striker Didier Drogba\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I want to play in the 2014 World Cup \u2013 Chelsea striker Didier Drogba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Kingsley Kobo 12 Feb 2011 08:44:00 Didier Drogba, Ivory Coast v South Korea (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Chelsea talisman and the Ivory Coast &#8216;s charismatic international Didier Drogba is far from hanging up his boots, especially with the Elephants, even though local pundits believe his international career is waning. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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