Drogba fears the draw

With the World Cup draw only 2 days away, Ivory Coast star-striker Didier Drogba has come out and said that he hopes his side will get a better draw compared to the one they had for Germany 2006.

Of course, as we all remember, Ivory Coast was part of the tournament's "Group of Death" with Argentina, the Netherlands and Serbia & Montenegro.

Drogba said: "I hope we'll be in a better group than in 2006 when we tried to fight but had no chance to go through. Hopefully we will be more lucky this time. We want to avoid the big teams like Brazil, Germany and England"

Will be interesting to see how far the Elephants will manage to go with Chelsea stars Drogba and Kalou leading the team. The squad definitely has talent and on paper look to be one of the better teams. From Africa at least. Think a lot will depend on how manager Bosnian Vahid Halilhodžić manages to mix the talent with tactics. Start under him was rough, but since taking over in May 2008, the team has only lost 1 match. The very first one under Halilhodžić against Japan 1:0. But recent matches have seen a great performance versus three-times World Champions Germany (2:2) and a draw away in Turkey (1:1).

Africa has been talked about as the potential new continent to take the World Cup title and for me Ivory Coast looks the most likely to challenge. As we all remember, when the tournament was first played in Asia, then the host nation South Korea surprised the World with their 4th place.

There will be no doubt a big part being played by Lady Luck, starting with the draw on Friday.