new delhi we didnt have a lot of money so with the few pennies we had we would go to market and buy some candies cut a plastic bottle and put the candies inside that used to be our world cup a broad smile spread across didier drogbas face as the former chelsea and ivory coast striker recalled his days on the streets of abidjan many many moons agothe one who scored most and won the matches would claim the cup when you live such moments as a kid and you have the chance to experience them in real with real cups you do everything when i won a trophy for the first time the images of that kid in abidjan flooded methat little boy who grew up to play for eight clubs across seven countries and was twice named the african footballer of the year announced his retirement two days ago here as an ambassador for yokohama tyres on his second visit to the country drogba hardly looked 40 defining the position of a targetman when false nine was fashionable drogba ended up with 164 goals for chelsea in two north london stints among his 15 winners medals there is one champions league four premier league titles and four fa cups in his nine seasons at stamford bridge and his relationship with manager jose mourinho has been a favourite pub topic since 2004 when they first joined handstalking slowly almost weighing every word that fell off his lips like frank lampards passes king drog has spoken at length about mourinhos manchester united phase in his postretirement interviews had he been with manchester city mourinho would have won the league he told the british press before talking exclusively to toi on friday drogba said he mourinho has a perfect targetman in romelu lukaku so i guess he is not really missing me he has what he needs in manchester united my game was different when i used to play in france for marseille and guingamp playing at the very edge of offside and attacking the goal when i came to chelsea i had to adapt as there were two wingers coming inside and midfielders coming into the box i had to adapt if i wanted to play so i did pretty quick and it turned out to be good for mean uncanny knack for scoring in the finals takes a few chapters in drogbas biography i wish i could tell you the secret behind this but i decided to play football to live these kind of moments disappointments were there as well and who knows it better than andres iniesta whose injurytime goal in the 2009 champions league semifinal unravelled the raging bull from the calm exterior his expletives against the norwegian referee earned him a sixgame european suspensionasked which among his silverware he cherishes the most drogba took a few seconds to run the list in his mind i would say the champions league because that is the only