- Chelsea legend Didier Drogba recalls when he played in the Champions League final
- The ex-Ivorian international scored the penalty kick that won the title for the Blues
- The 40-year-old finally hung his boot after his illustrious career in Europe and America
Didier Drogba recounts his experience when he took the deciding penalty kick that won the Champions League for Chelsea in 2012.
The 40-year-old forward who recently hung his boots said he got divine direction from God before converting his spot-kick beyond Manuel Neuer.
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The ex-Ivorian international had scored a late equalizer in the match, then conceded an extra time penalty which was saved by Petre Cech before the game went into shootout.
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And Drogba scored the winning penalty which also proved to be the last kick of his eight-year spell at Chelsea and in many ways characterizes the fairy-tale nature of his story.
“I had some conversations with God on the pitch and that night I challenged Him and said ‘OK, if you really exist, now show me’.
“That’s how that goal came. On that last corner, I was telling God ‘now I want to see that you really exist’. So, when I scored and I ran to the corner flag, and I was looking to the sky, I was lost, I was saying ‘he does really exist’.
“That’s me and my faith, and my connection with God. That’s the only way I can explain what happened because there was no way we were going to go to Bayern Munich in front of their fans, losing 1-0, I score the equaliser, give away a penalty that Petr Cech saves, then the last kick and I score. It could have been a movie and it’s something I will never forget.”
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had earlier reported that former Chelsea forward Didier Drogba ended his professional football career with a defeat after his club Phoenix Rising fell to Louisville City in the final game of the USL Cup.
According to a Sky Sport report, Drogba, who is a part owner of Rising could not save the second division side from a lone goal defeat after Louisville's Luke Spencer scored in the second stanza.
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