Nkausu was part of the four-man Zambian defence in the Final and went into a myriad of physical battles in the box with Drogba during two hours of football on that famous night in Libreville, Gabon.
“You have to be extra careful with Drogba in the box because he goes down softly in the box,” warns the SuperSport United defender.
Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger have been amongst those that have famously labelled Drogba a diver.
“During the final he was down 24/7 and seems to have mastered the art of diving in search of getting penalties,” Nkausu adds.
“Drogba is big, but it is not even an effort for him to go down. There was one particular incident during the Final when he went down looking for a penalty, but the referee ignored it and didn’t even give him a penalty.
“I think he has taken this tendency that strikers have of always looking for a penalty when they get into the box a bit too far.
“I fail to understand how such a big strong guy like Drogba can go down so easily. With his profile in football referees always give him attention.
“I don’t like it when strikers dive to get unfair penalties because that is something that also leads to us defenders getting unnecessary cards from referees who would have fallen for these tricks,” says Nkausu.
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Talk too much now, Egypt won it and defend it at the same time, wonder if you will reach the semi here, Egypt, cameroon, south africa will be around.
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'Sox' is telling the truth. Anyway, who knows any thing about football would have already noticed that. Drogba likes to dive and then he rolls on the ground quite a lot after that as well.
Stil congratulate Zambia even now though i didn't believe that they can over come the so called big teams especially bringing the trophy again to the southern Africa, Senegal was my favourite.
@ the Ghost & Zambia dat happen often in soccer world wide Ronaldo does the same and it 's their weapon some times the get away with it.
@Sibuza Egypt, South Africa, Cameroon learn a very hard big lesson including Nigeria surey the will be here next year i just also wish to see Zimbabwe here, reminding dat we have almost 50.000 africans across the Africa surely the next ACN support will be more much better and interesting am not taking anything away from Zambia they had a very strong team including dat they have together for almost 5 yrs by now. but let us wait and see.