{"id":186680,"date":"2024-12-16T12:33:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-mbappe-will-emerge-stronger-at-real-madrid-says-didier-drogba\/"},"modified":"2024-12-16T12:33:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T10:33:47","slug":"cote-divoire-mbappe-will-emerge-stronger-at-real-madrid-says-didier-drogba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-mbappe-will-emerge-stronger-at-real-madrid-says-didier-drogba\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Mbapp\u00e9 Will Emerge Stronger At Real Madrid, Says Didier Drogba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><em> Ivorian football legend Didier Drogba has given his backing to the France skipper Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, saying the 25-year-old will emerge a better player and person following a disappointing start to his career at Real Madrid. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">&#8220;His adaptation from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.psg.fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> to Real Madrid isn&#8217;t the easiest,&#8221; Drogba told RFI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;But I&#8217;d rather have a difficult adaptation in Madrid than find myself in a situation where everything&#8217;s easier,&#8221; added the 46-year-old, who played 105 times for C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire scoring&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412160031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivorian football legend Didier Drogba has given his backing to the France skipper Kylian Mbapp\u00e9, saying the 25-year-old will emerge a better player and person following a disappointing start to his career at Real Madrid. &#8220;His adaptation from Paris Saint-Germain to Real Madrid isn&#8217;t the easiest,&#8221; Drogba told RFI. &#8220;But I&#8217;d rather have a difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,5959,9762,16569,9988,1218,15532,12601,257,6884,254,7288],"class_list":["post-186680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-didier","tag-drogba","tag-emerge","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-madrid","tag-mbappe","tag-news","tag-real","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stronger"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}