Didier Drogba's legend lives on in the Major League Soccer

Portia Arthur

July 31, 2015 11:40 AM

Didier Drogba won 12 trophies in his illustrious career

Didier Drogba

When people think of football legend, Didier Drogba’s career, they remember that magical night in Munich when he single-handedly won the Uefa Champions League trophy for Chelsea.

“It was a Drogba moment and one that probably only he was capable of,” one commentator said, a sentiment that captured the enormity of his performance that night in 2012 against Bayern Munich.

It is this pedigree that the Montreal Impact will be getting after the Canadian club announced Drogba’s signing earlier this week, the latest addition to US Major League Soccer.

At 37 years old, the former Ivory Coast captain is obviously not the player he once was. Last season, while on his second spell at Chelsea, he played only a bit part during the London’s side march to the league title.

There have been a lot of African players over the years of varying statures who succeeded beyond the continent.

Liberia’s George Weah, Ghana’s Tony Yeboah, and Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o are just a few that come to mind. But none, I would venture to say, is as iconic as Didier Drogba.

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Portia Arthur