Footballers for Peace in Ivory Coast
How Didier Drogba and the Ivorian football team campaigned for an end to their country's devastating civil war.
In 2005, the Ivorian national football team - led by Chelsea superstar, Didier Drogba - began campaigning for an end to their country's devastating civil war. The side insisted on playing their matches across Ivory Coast - including an emotional game in the rebel capital of Bouak茅. Robert Nicholson talks to Ivory Coast midfielder, Gilles Yapi-Yapo. The programme is a Whistledown Production.
PHOTO: Ivory Coast striker, Didier Drogba, is escorted from the pitch. (Getty Images)
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