Didier Drogba has appeared in three World Cups, played more than 250 games for Chelsea in the English Premier League and once delivered the game-winning penalty kick in a Champions League final.
But this year, at age 39, he has taken on the biggest challenge of his career: He has agreed to spend the summer in Phoenix, where the temperatures are regularly 30 degrees higher than what Drogba experienced growing up in West Africa.
“People have spoken to me about that,” Drogba said Friday. “It’s quite scary what they’re saying. But I really love the heat.”
There’s heat.