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THREE YOUNG LIONS INVOLVED IN ENGLAND WIN

Posted on: Fri 03 Feb 2012


Three Chelsea youngsters were involved in England Under 17s' opening game
of the friendly Algarve Tournament against hosts Portugal on Thursday.


Academy midfielder John Swift and schoolboy defender Jordan Houghton both
started in the 2-1 win, and were withdrawn after 66 minutes.


Youth team defender Alastair Gordon replaced Houghton in the back four as
John Peacock's side stepped up their preparations for the European
Championships Elite Qualifying Round which begin next month, grabbing a
last-minute winner through West Ham's Leo Chambers.


England are next in action against Holland on Saturday afternoon.


Nathan Ake played for Holland U17s in the same tournament and scored the
only goal against France. Our youth team centre-back played the full game.

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MORE INTERNATIONAL ACTION FOR YOUNG BLUES

Posted on: Sat 04 Feb 2012


Young Chelsea players were involved for both sides in a match at the Under
17 Algarve international tournament as England drew 2-2 with the
Netherlands.


Alistair Gordon who was used as a sub in England Under 17s' opening game
win on Thursday started this time. Chelsea schoolboy Jordan Houghton
retained his place although he was sent off only 18 minutes into the game
after conceding a penalty.


That gave the Dutch an equaliser, England having opened the scoring five
minutes earlier.


Both sides scored again before the break and the England side who were
captained by Gustavo Poyet's son Diego, who is a Charlton player, had the
chance to win it with a last-minute penalty but it was saved by the
Netherlands goalkeeper.


Chelsea youth team centre back Nathan Ake (pictured), who scored the only
goal in a win against France in Holland U17s opener, was introduced after
56 minutes against England. John Swift who started the first match
remained on the England bench.


England complete their tournament with a game against France on Monday.
The Netherlands play Portugal on the same day.

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DROGBA FIRES IVORY COAST INTO SEMIS

Posted on: Sat 04 Feb 2012


The pre-tournament favourites go marching on in the Africa Cup of Nations
with a 3-0 win over co-hosts Equatorial Guinea, Didier Drogba scoring the
first two goals.


The Chelsea centre-forward and Ivory Coast captain found the target in
each half to make him joint tournament top scorer with three goals. Yaya
Toure hit the third.


It was a straight-forward win against the lowest-ranked side in the
tournament whom despite a partisan crowd had caused a big surprise by
beating Senegal in the group stage.


Eight changes from the last group stage game restored Ivory Coast to a
full strength line-up although Salomon Kalou, who tweaked a hamstring in
his team's second game of the tournament, was kept on the bench until 85
minutes had been played.


In the first half, Drogba had an early volley saved and former Leeds
player Max Gradel fired over after a scramble during which the Ivorians
were convinced there was a handball by an opposition defender.


On 29 minutes they were awarded a penalty when Gradel was tripped running
into the area. Although Drogba's spot-kick was not badly struck, it gave
the keeper a chance to save that was taken.


It took just seven minutes for the Chelsea striker to redeem himself and
it was an archetypal Drogba goal. Initially given the ball by carelessness
from Equatorial Guinea, he powered forwarded and then cut back inside his
closest pursuer before firing the ball inside the near post.


Ivory Coast have not conceded a goal in the tournament and continued to
look safe in the second half. They appeared likely to add a second when
Drogba began a swift counter-attack but Gervinho's header was tipped over
and the offside flag went up as well, although incorrectly.


With 68 minutes played, Drogba did double the advantage and it was with a
wonderful header into the top corner after Gervinho had won a free-kick
out wide.


Toure put the result beyond all doubt on 81 minutes. It was again from
free-kick won by Gervinho and it was curled into the net by the Man City
player; another quality goal.


Ivory Coast play the winners of the quarter-final between the other
co-hosts, Gabon, and Mali. The match takes place on Wednesday with a 7pm
kick-off UK time.

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TRIO WIN WITH YOUNG ENGLAND

Posted on: Mon 06 Feb 2012


England Under 17s completed their participation in the four-team Algarve
friendly tournament on Monday morning with a 2-1 win against France. Three
Chelsea players were involved.


Alistair Gordon (pictured) and schoolboy Jordan Houghton played the full
match, Houghton as captain. John Swift also started and was subbed with
just a minute left on the clock. The score was 1-1 at that point, England
having taken a lead in the first half before the French equalised before
the interval. However John Peacock's side who had been denied by a series
of saves by an in-form keeper scored in injury time to give themselves won
two, drawn one record from their trip to Portugal.


In Monday's other game in the tournament, Nathan Ake played the whole game
for the Netherlands U17s but was on the losing side, going down 2-0 to
Portugal.


At England Under 19 level, a squad has been named to take on Czech
Republic at Leyton Orient at the end of the month. Chelsea have three
representatives - Todd Kane, Nathaniel Chalobah and January signing from
Nottingham Forest, Patrick Bamford, his first call-up at this level. The
match is on 28 February.

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IVORY COAST TRIUMPH IN SEMI-FINAL

Posted on: Wed 08 Feb 2012


Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou's participation in the Africa Cup of
Nations will go the full length of the tournament after Ivory Coast won
their semi-final on Wednesday evening.


They beat Mali 1-0 thanks to a Gervinho goal and in the final on Sunday
will play Zambia, 1-0 conquerors of Ghana who missed a penalty in their
game earlier in the day.


The winning margin may have been narrow for the Ivorian Elephants, but as
in their four previous matches they fully deserved to come out on top as
they reduced their opponents to a couple of genuine scoring chances over
the 90 minutes.


The opening quarter of the game was dominated by Ivory Coast and the first
scare for Mali was on five minutes when Drogba got a faint touch with his
head to a free-kick which diverted it onto the woodwork. The Chelsea
striker soon took a free-kick himself which was saved by the face of the
keeper after bouncing up off the turf.


Kalou, who had been passed fit to start for the first time since the
second group game, soon got into the attacking action when he supplied a
pass for Yaya Toure to shoot against the post.


The game became end-to-end briefly around 20 minutes when after Mali had
almost bludgeoned their way through on goal, Ivory Coast attacked swiftly
and Kalou passed up the opportunity to go down under a challenge in the
area and narrowly missed with a shot into the side netting.


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Kalou


After that Mali enjoyed their best spell and briefly threatened to spoil
their opponents' perfect defensive record.


However Ivory Coast came back at them strongly and on 31 minutes Drogba
made space for a shot despite close policing from two defenders but he
fired wide. Before half-time Kalou had an attempt from outside the area
but cleared the bar.


Gervinho's wayward finishing has been one of the features of the Ivorian
campaign but the Arsenal striker atoned for previous misses with a run
down the left wing from inside his own half and then a shot across the
keeper into the far side of the net. Mali defenders were conspicuous by
their absence. The deciding goal had come in the 44th minute.


Stagnant soccer followed the restart until the 65th minute when Kalou shot
from the edge of the area and it was well saved by the keeper above his
head.


Mali came close to scoring just once in the second half when they finally
stretched the Elephants defence on 72 minutes and Mustapha Yatabare shot
powerfully but just over the bar.


Their opponents were too well-versed in the craft of winning football
matches and five minutes later Drogba almost mirrored Gervinho's goal down
the right-hand side but on this occasion the shot hit the keeper. He
remains one of six players tied as joint tournament top scorer on six
goals.


Kalou was substituted with just over 10 minutes left on the clock which
were played out by his team-mates with no real scares.


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Drogba


Ivory Coast will play in their third African final following victory in
1992 and defeat in 2006. Zambia lost in their two previous final
appearances - in 1974 and 1994.

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