Didier Drogba
Didier Yves Drogba Tebily is a 31 year old centre forward who currently plays for Chelsea FC in the English Premier League. He is the 8th highest scorer in the history of Chelsea FC and was transferred from Olympique de Marseille for £24million pounds in 2004, realising a substantial profit for the French team who had paid only £3.3million pounds for his the year before. Drogba has an astonishing record of 42 International goals for the Ivory Coast in only 61 games – a feat that is even more incredible when you realise that the Ivory Coast also have players like Arouane Dindane, Salomon Kalou, YaYa Toure and Bakari Kone in the team.
| 1 June 2008 | Ivory Coast | 1 – 0 Mozambique | did not play |
| 8 June 2008 | Madagascar | 0 – 0 Ivory Coast | did not play |
| 14 June 2008 | Botswana | 1 – 1 Ivory Coast | did not play |
| 22 June 2008 | Ivory Coast | 4 – 0 Botswana | did not play |
| 7 September 2008 | Mozambique | 1 – 1 Ivory Coast | did not play |
| 11 October 2008 | Ivory Coast | 3 – 0 Madagascar | did not play |
| 29 March 2009 | Ivory Coast | 5 – 0 Malawi | 2 goals |
| 7 June 2009 | Guinea | 1 – 2 Ivory Coast | 0 goals |
| 20 June 2009 | Burkina Faso | 2 – 3 Ivory Coast | 1 goal |
| 5 September 2009 | Ivory Coast | 5 – 0 Burkina Faso | 2 goals |
| 10 October 2009 | Malawi | 1 – 1 Ivory Coast | 1 goal |
| 14 November 2009 | Ivory Coast | 3 – 0 Guinea | did not play |
Drogba scored 6 of the 29 qualifying goals that the Ivory Coast scored in qualifying – 21%, even though he only appeared in 5 of the 2012 African Nations Cup qualifying matches.