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Ivory Coast's Olympic football qualifier with Liberia has been postponed to April 20 due to violence in Ivory Coast.

“The match which was scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed to April 20,” association spokesperson Henry Boyd Flomo told reporters.

“It’s a decision based on the request of the Ivorian football authorities to FIFA.

“They said they cannot gather their players for the match due to the political instability in Ivory Coast. They asked for 10 days.”

Didier Drogba has said that he is very happy to stay at Chelsea and has no plans to quit the club.

Reports at the weekend suggested Drogba was ready to quit Stamford Bridge after finding his chances of first-team football limited since the arrival of Fernando Torres from Liverpool.

Real Madrid, Galatasaray and former club Marseille have all been linked with the Ivory Coast international and while Chelsea are rumoured to be prepared to be ready to sell the forward in the summer, Drogba insists he is happy at Stamford Bridge.

Ivory Coast's Didier Drogba has scored to help Ivory Coast win. Didier Drogba made a winning return to international football. His Ivory Coast team beat Mali 1-0 in a bad-tempered friendly in France, which finished two minutes early when the floodlights failed.

World Cup quarterfinalists Ghana crushed Togo 4-1 in Belgium.

New Wales' manager Gary Speed got off to the worst of starts in Dublin, where he saw his side hammered 3-0 by Ireland in the Nations Cup mini-tournament.

Tiote's red card that will see the Ivory Coast football star miss the next two games for Newcastle United has been appealed against. The Newcastle midfielder was sent off for a crunching two double footed challenge on John Ashton, but yesterday claimed he got the ball not the player.

Boss Pardew is hoping to have his Ivory Coast king-pin freed up to play in the Sunderland derby on Sunday, but if the appeal is ruled out of order by the Football Association the ban could rise to four games.

Didier Drogba has demanded the violence in Ivory Coast to end very soon. Drogba, who is the Ivory Coast's national captain, expressed his fears over the deadly stand-off between Laurent Gbagbo and rival Alassane Outtara, following last month's presidential election.

In a statement, where he speaks for the national team, Chelsea star Drogba appealed for democracy to triumph.

Ivory Coast sealed their place in the final of Cecafa. Ivory Coast wonder-kid Kipre Tchetche came of the bench again to score the all-important goal in the 72nd minute to earn the guest side a laboured 1-0 victory over Ethiopia, yesterday. This was Tchetche’s fourth goal of the competition, all scored after coming in as a substitute and this time it earned the Ivorians, who are making a debut at the regional championships, a ticket to the final.

Ivory Coast national football team are set to land in Dar for their final preparations. The Elephants of Cote D'Ivoire who have been invited to feature in this edition, were scheduled to arrive in the city at 08:00am and will be accommodated at Tansoma Hotel in Kariakoo area, together with Rwanda and Sudan.

Already Kenya, Sudan and Zambia are in the country since Wednesday, while Malawi, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zanzibar, Somalia and Ethiopia were all scheduled to arrive in the city yesterday.

Sepp Blatter has extended his gratitude to the Ivory Coast for their part in the World Cup 2010. In a letter to the President of the Ivorian Football Federation (IFF), Jacques Anouma, the FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter "wishes to thank" and "welcomes" all the Ivorian delegation which took part in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Drogba is all set to continue to play for Ivory Coast despite being 32 years old. "Each time they call me up, I'll be there," the 32-year-old Chelsea hitman told TF1.

Drogba - scorer of 45 goals in his 71 appearances for Ivory Coast - was omitted from new coach Francois Zahoui's 21-strong squad for an African Cup of Nations qualifier against Rwanda in Abidjan on Saturday.

Zahoui said at the time that after talks with Drogba, he deemed the striker "not psychologically ready to play the game".