Former Ghana international midfielder Michael Essien celebrates his 38th birthday on Friday December 3rd.
The former Black Stars midfield anchor scored 35 goals in 256 appearances for Chelsea FC a club a joined from Olympique Lyon in the summer of 2005 for a £24.4 million fee, ending one of the longest-running transfer sagas.
At the time, the fee made Essien Chelsea’s most expensive signing of all-time, surpassing the £24 million Chelsea paid for Didier Drogba the previous summer. The transfer went through on 19 August.
Essien scored 9 goals in 59 caps for Ghana and played at the 2006 and 2014 FIFA World Cups.
He won 2 Ligue 1 titles with Lyon and 2 Premier League honors at Chelsea where he also won the UEFA Champions League in 2012.