Football: Shanghai take Drogba row to FIFA

BEIJING: Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua will take its battle against star striker Didier Drogba’s move to Turkish side Galatasaray to football’s governing body Fifa this week, said domestic reports yesterday. The Ivory Coast striker left the club in acrimonious circumstances last month, with Shanghai saying he had breached his contract. “We now have evidence which we believe will give Shenhua a 99 per cent chance of winning a lawsuit at Fifa,” a lawyer acting for the club told the Sina web portal. The anonymous source from ‘Shenhua’s legal team’ said papers would be submitted to the sport’s governing body tomorrow. The report said Shenhua will provide evidence that Drogba breached his contract and that Galatasaray had violated Fifa rules by luring a player away from his current club.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 19^th, 2013.