This is the end of a brilliant career

The Ivorian clinical striker Didier Drogba decided to retire from the professional football. He took this difficult decision, because he wants to return in his favourite club Chelsea as a coach. Drogba has already informed Montreal’s bosses of his intentions. He won’t start the new season in The MLS, but the Canadian club will receive a compensation from Chelsea for the termination of his contract, which is up to 2017.
37-year-old Drogba has achieved great things since his first match for the French team Le Mans in 1998. The striker is described as a late bloomer, because he started to play professionally at the age of 21. This is because of his complicated family life. He has never attended a football academy and that’s why he has found it difficult to cope with the training sessions of his team in the very beginning of his career.
After being bought by Guingamp in 2002, the young striker made 11 appearances and scored 3 goals, helping his new team avoid relegation. He wasn’t that impressive as a player, but received another chance from Guingamp’s bosses and in season 2002/2003 scored 17 goals in 34 appearances, providing his team 7th position in the standings (a record for the club).
He was spotted by Marseille and Les Phoceens bought him for £3.3 m. Didier Drogba found the net on 19 occasions in The French League 1 and played his first big final – in The Uefa Cup, but Marseille lost 2-0 to Valencia and became a runner-up.
Shortly after Drogba’s phenomenal performance, the Ivorian was bought by Chelsea. The Londoners paid £24 m. for the services of the goal-scoring machine. He played for The Blues until 2012. Then, Drogba returned to Chelsea in 2014. The striker scored 164 goals in 381 matches for The Londoners and became one of the team’s legends. While he was at Stamford Bridge, he managed to win The Premier League (4 times), The FA Cup (4), The Capital One Cup (3), Community Shield (2) and The Champions League (1).
Drogba has also won The Turkish Super League, Cup and Super Cup when he was at Galatasaray. The Ivorian has scored 275 goals in 636 professional games at club level. For the national team of Cote D’Ivoire Didier Drogba has found the net on 65 occasions in 104 matches. He couldn’t help his nation to win The African Nations Cup, becoming a runner-up twice.
Now, 37-year-old Drogba is going to return to his real home Stamford Bridge. But this time he won’t wear his favourite shirt with number 11 at his back, but will be on the bench next to the manager Guus Hiddink.