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Video: Drogba Receives a Banner from Chelsea—It's Unnecessarily Epic

Drogba's arrival in Montreal was already fairly epic. Then the Impact turned it up to 11.

Drogba's arrival in Montreal was already fairly epic—but apparently not epic enough for some. So Montreal Impact released a video of what is a very sweet, simple act—Chelsea sending over a "Drogba Legend" banner and a video love note from his old club to his new one—and unnecessarily set it to what must be the French-Canadian Lux Aeterna Requiem for a Dream.

It's just a piece of cloth with some Twelve Oaks font getting unpacked by a couple of kids. Drogba's response is pretty fitting: "Oh, cool." Double hand waves, as if to a baby. Gets warmed up. Scores hat trick for first start in MLS. After the game, hands the jersey to a kid behind the banner.

OK, so those last two parts were pretty swell.