Drogba was key to Chelsea's Champions League glory
By
Mandeep Sanghera BBC Sport
Didier
Drogba can make his exit after eight years at Chelsea knowing it is mission
accomplished.
The
Ivorian centre forward, who scored the winning penalty as Chelsea beat
Bayern Munich to win the European Cup, announced on Tuesday that he was leaving
Stamford Bridge.
Time
right to move on - Drogba
He
was signed for £24m in 2004 from French club Marseille as one of Roman
Abramovich's key initial signings after the Russian billionaire took over the
London outfit - and Drogba can now sign off having delivered the one trophy
Abramovich craved more than any other.
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If anyone deserved a Champions League winner's medal it was the powerful
striker - he had previously lost in one final, three semi-finals, one
quarter-final and twice in the last 16. But, on Saturday, the Ivory Coast
striker scored the decisive spot-kick in the penalty shoot-out at the Allianz
Arena to erase all those previous scars. Despite being a player who
consistently delivered for Chelsea - he scored nine goals in nine finals -
Europe's top competition always looked destined to elude him. Drogba, though,
maintained the faith. Accused of being an "actor" by some because of
his theatrics, in Munich he put in a performance more in keeping with the power
and poise which made him such a feared opponent for defenders, scoring with a
bullet header to equalise against Bayern before converting the crucial penalty.
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