• When I arrived in France, it was very, very difficult. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

    Didier Drogba: When I arrived in France, it was very, very difficult. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.
    "The Premiership's French foreign legion" by Rob Draper, www.dailymail.co.uk. April 28, 2007.