Ivorian soccer player Didier Drogba who plays for Shanghai Shenhua in China attends the African soccer player awards ceremony in Accra December 20,2012. REUTERS/Luc Gnago
(Reuters) - Didier Drogba will return to international football in August, Ivory Coast coach Sabri Lamouchi said as he sought to end speculation over supposed tension between himself and his captain.
Lamouchi has left the 35-year-old Drogba out of the team's two World Cup qualifiers this month, after first dropping him at January's African Nations Cup finals, but said there were reasons for the latest absence of the talismanic striker.
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