{"id":337732,"date":"2011-03-25T12:18:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/25\/didier-drogba-michael-essien-is-committed-to-ghana\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T12:18:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T12:18:06","slug":"didier-drogba-michael-essien-is-committed-to-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/25\/didier-drogba-michael-essien-is-committed-to-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Didier Drogba: Michael Essien Is Committed To Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has jumped to the defence of  his team-mate Michael Essien the midfielder loves the Ghana national team.<\/p>\n<p>Two serious knee injury Essien suffered while playing for the Black Stars nearly ended the Chelsea midfielder\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p>His return to the Ghana fold has been a subject of debate with some accusing Essien of being unpatriotic.<\/p>\n<p>But his Ivorian team-mate says Essien is committed to the Black Stars<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you have to understand that we are all proud to play for our country. He went through a very difficult moment with this knee injury,\u201d Drogba said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think rather than criticise him you guys should encourage him and show him the love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think a player like that doesn\u2019t want to play in the World Cup?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was big frustration for him not to play so you guys should support him because he is one of the best players in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast are in Ghana ahead of their clash with Benin in an African Cup of Nations qualifier on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/201ed65bget.media_1456-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Read more here|View the original here|More|More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Read More|Continued here|More here|View original post here|More|See more here|See original article|Originally posted here|Visit site|See the original post||See the original article here|Read the original post|Original post|Read the article|See more here|Read the original|Link|Excerpt from|Taken from|View post|Visit link|Follow this link|Continue reading here|Continue Reading|See the article here|Read this article|View article|<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has jumped to the defence of his team-mate Michael Essien the midfielder loves the Ghana national team. Two serious knee injury Essien suffered while playing for the Black Stars nearly ended the Chelsea midfielder\u2019s career. His return to the Ghana fold has been a subject of debate with some accusing Essien of being unpatriotic. <\/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-337732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Didier Drogba: Michael Essien Is Committed To Ghana - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/25\/didier-drogba-michael-essien-is-committed-to-ghana\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Didier Drogba: Michael Essien Is Committed To Ghana - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Chelsea striker Didier Drogba has jumped to the defence of his team-mate Michael Essien the midfielder loves the Ghana national team. 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