‘Didier Drogba threw me in a pool – I feared I’d misplaced my Champions League medal’
Chelsea legend Gary Cahill revealed Didier Drogba virtually made him lose his Champions League winner’s medal.
Barely six months after becoming a member of the Blues from Bolton Wanderers, Cahill put in a starring show to assist the West Londoners overcome Bayern Munich within the Bavarians’ personal yard. While Drogba stole the headlines by heading the important equaliser and slotting house the profitable penalty, the ex-England worldwide was one among Roberto Di Matteo’s facet’s finest gamers.
Chelsea’s post-victory celebrations, predictably, received slightly out of hand, such was the delirium. It practically received an excessive amount of as Drogba hurled Cahill right into a swimming pool and virtually misplaced the central defender’s winners medal.
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While talking to Parimatch, Cahill stated: “My favorite reminiscence at Chelsea will all the time be the Champions League Final. That is the standout, however very near it’s profitable the Premier League.
“As an Englishman who grew up watching the Premier League, to play in it was a dream come true, by no means thoughts profitable it. It requires consistency all through a complete season, in order that comes a really shut second.
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“The Champions League celebrations had been mad! There is a photograph of me and Didier Drogba at a rooftop bar after we got here again and everybody was there, it was superb!
“Didier picked me up above his head and threw me in the pool, but when I came back up my medal wasn’t around my neck. I had a split second of panic thinking that I had lost my Champions League winners medal less than 12 hours after winning it!
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“Thankfully, it was lying at the bottom of the pool so I went down and grabbed it.”
Cahill also went on to win two Premier League titles, a second FA Cup, the League Cup and two Europa League over the next seven years. After spending two years at Crystal Palace, he moved to Bournemouth, the place he would go on to retire in 2022.
