Drogba is considered to be one of the greatest strikers to have ever graced the game of football and is the highest goalscoring foreigner for Chelsea, but at 21 years of age he was confident that he would never make the grade as a professional football player. A lot of water has flown under Stamford Bridge and other places since that day, and it funny now to consider that the Ivorian turned down offers from big clubs like Paris Saint-Germain in 1998 to devote time to his career choice of being an accountant.
Preparing for life outside football, Drogba rebuffed PSG and signed for second-tier team Le Mans because he wanted to study accountancy at the city’s university. Unlike his compatriots of the Ivory Coast golden generation which he was a part of, Drogba was a comparatively late bloomer – signing a professional contract at almost 22 years. One season at Le Mans was all it took for his potential to be realized though. He quit university and has been racking up the goals ever since.
One assumes his professional skills help Drogba in keeping track of the number of goals he scores.
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