'Best Feet Forward' - Drogba and the Ivorian Civil War

As the latest Vanity Fair article on the Ivory Coast and Didier Drogba suggests, football can heal a wounded nation.

Drogba and his compatriots are the subjects of a massive article in the American magazine of culture, fashion, and politics about their latest African Cup of Nations qualifier against Madagascar.

It's the latest in a line of articles depicting Drogba and mates as a soothing tonic to the national problems in the Ivory Coast, which is battling a civil war.

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