MONTREAL -- Didier Drogba will not risk his sore knee and sit out four of the Montreal Impact's early-season matches that are played on artificial turf, but the Chelsea legend confirmed that he will spend the entire 2016 campaign with the club.
The Impact play all but one of their opening five contests on turf, and technical director Adam Braz told reporters after the team trained here Thursday that playing the 38-year-old Ivorian on the unforgiving surface is "too big of a risk" to take early in the year.
"We saw last year when we played [on turf] in New England, his knee really swelled up and he really had a tough time recovering afterwards for the playoffs," Braz said.