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Interview with Didier Drogba ( anglicky )

11. března 2008 v 16:18 | Tí_nuška |  DiDiEr DrOgBa - RoZhOvOrY a ČlÁnKy
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DIDIER DROGBA

Didier Drogba will rarely have a more busy week this season than his current one.
Between 'letting his feet do the talking' at Middlesbrough and at home to Schalke - Avram Grant's description for our striker's goals and great all-round displays in those two games - he has been much in demand to both talk and have his picture taken.
On Tuesday, prior to training at Stamford Bridge in preparation for our Champions League game, Didier did the rounds of central London's radio station studios - appearing live on BBC Radios One and Two and recording an interview for Capital Radio for broadcast this weekend.
The purpose was to promote the newly-released Skin single on which he appears and its central anti-racism message.
Back at the Bridge and before training, Didier was on the pitch cutting a very different figure than the one normally seen. Standing next to him was former England rugby captain Martin Johnson, both in American Football attire to help promote this weekend's NFL fixture at Wembley. For once, Didier was looking up!
Following training today at a Cobham still smiling from the Schalke win, Didier was back at the Bridge, this time to launch a soon-to-be-released DVD on his life so far.
Between all this, he still found time to talk to chelseafc.com about life as one of world football's most famous names, if indeed he regards himself as such.
'Of course I notice it, that more people have been asking me to do things,' he agrees. 'The good thing is I can choose what I want and don't want to do.
'I hope I am going in the good way with my career. The most important thing is to stay at the top. This is the most difficult thing and I try to do my best.'
Finishing highest scorer last season in what many believe is the pre-eminent league in European football was always going to elevate Didier into the top bracket of players.
His recent nominations for both World and European Footballer of the Year reflect that. He finished 10th in the European one last season and must be a good bet to improve on that when the results are announced on 2 December.
He knows however that he has a battle on his hands to retain the Barclays Premier League Golden Boot.
'It is very important to me but I am a bit late as I didn't play for one month. I wasn't really fit for a while but now I feel fine and I am coming back. I will give my best to win this as well as also to win the league title.
'Being away for the African Cup of Nations means I will have to score three goals every game until January,' he decides. 'And that is not easy to do!
'This season will be difficult for me to win it but I won't give up. And for the title race, we still need to focus on winning games even if I and some other players are not here.'
Didier's Middlesbrough strike was his second in the league for the season. Leading the Golden Boot race are Portsmouth's Benjani on seven goals and Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor on six.
'I think Adebayor decided to lose against Mali because of this,' smiles Didier when the Gunners' Togo striker and his goal total are mentioned.
'I am joking because he would have been very happy to be in the African Nations Cup. He is one of the top scorers now and I am not surprised because I know him from France and I know what he can do. Now he is free to score goals, to move and to do what he wants.'
Didier's own rise up the scoring charts last season was credited in part by the player to operating with a strike partner. Most games this campaign have seen him back as the central man in a front three. He is relaxed about it.
'My first season here we played 4-3-3 as well and I scored some goals because I was in good form. I was feeling very well and this season is the same.
'There is no problem for me playing 4-3-3 as long as the wingers can come and help me to create the game and play and create the spaces. It is not difficult when you like to move.
'I love to put my name in the books so I would like be European Golden Boot,' Didier declares as a future ambition. 'Someone can come and win it afterwards but I would like my name to be there.'
Skin Deep
Didier may be able to say yes or no to requests for his time but needed little persuasion to become involved in the Skin single, out this week to coincide with football's Kick It Out week of action on racism.
He told BBC Radio One's Newsbeat during his appearance there:
'It takes time, racism is not only in football. We have to deal with it because this is our world and where we express ourselves every day. In England, I've never really had a problem with racism. Abroad, it's different - it's a case of being educated.
'When people don't know about something, they act differently. The best message is to help them to know that maybe we have something in common.'
Two days on from that interview, he adds:
'It was very easy to say yes, I'll take part, because when I saw the lyrics, the meaning was strong and I love this kind of thing. Also because people expect me to do something like r'n'b and rap and this kind of thing. This is completely different and this is more strong. The message can go.
'The DVD I am launching is about me from leaving Ivory Coast when I was five to being at Chelsea - it is all my life,' he says, moving on to one of the week's other projects.
'It is something we have been working on for two-to-three years and it has good images and very interesting things to see on it. I think it is going be available in England.'
If the producers wish for some more strong images, they could do worse than include those that took place between Didier and the Chelsea support at the end of the game at Middlesbrough, and when he scored against Schalke. They were powerful stuff.
'It is so simple,' Didier insists. 'When you give people the love and the respect they deserve, they give it back to you. I think I have shown Chelsea fans a lot of respect and I think I can even say a lot of love and that is why they show it back to me.
'I am just happy to enjoy myself and play football and share it with the fans. I can only give my best when I share it like this with the fans.'
Skin by Wills and The Willing is out on CD single, limited edition signed blue 7" vinyl and download to coincide with a week of action by football's anti-racism and inclusion campaign, Kick It Out.
If you want a taster, you can watch the music video on YouTube.
The hope is to send this song to the top of the charts, raise money for the Chelsea's official charity partner CLIC Sargent (the UK's largest children's cancer charity) and make everyone aware that racism in today's society is completely unacceptable, all at the same time.
You can order the CD from Amazon or the CD and limited signed blue vinyl from HMV.
 

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