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Didier Drogba announced his retirement as a footballer on Thursday, news that came as something of a surprise to many fans around the world who were unaware he was still playing. The announcement came hot on the heels of the similarly surprising news of Joe Cole’s decision to hang up his boots last week and immediately prompted The Fiver to believe everything we thought we knew is wrong and trawl Wikipedia in an effort to find out in which far-flung corner of the world Hernán Crespo, Jesper Gronkjaer and Damien Duff are currently plying their trade.

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