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Coted’Ivoire striker Didier Drogba was given a hero's welcome as he arrived in China to start a two-and-a-half year contract that is expected to make him one of football's highest-paid players.
The 34-year-old has signed with Shanghai Shenhua on a deal that Chinese and British media have said is worth 200,000 pounds ($314,000) a week, which would make him the highest-paid player in China and in the top bracket globally.
He is the latest in the fast-growing number of foreign stars to have been lured to China on enormous salaries that are typically funded by Chinese business titans.
Drogba will join French striker Nicolas Anelka, who signed with Shenhua in January on a deal believed to be nearly as high.
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