Chelsea title winner, 39, comes out of retirement to join second division club… as player AND director

CHELSEA Champions League victor Salomon Kalou is acceptable to play for a second-division nine successful the IVORY COAST.

Winger Kalou spent six years astatine Stamford Bridge, scoring 60 goals successful 254 games.

He played successful the Blues' 2012 Champions League last triumph implicit Bayern Munich.

A £9million bargain from Feyenoord successful 2006, Kalou besides won the 2010 Premier League title, 4 FA Cups and a League Cup with the westbound Londoners.

The 93-cap Ivory Coast planetary went connected to play for Lille, Hertha Berlin and Brazilian nine Botafogo.

He made a astonishment determination to Djibouti nine Arta Solar 7 2 years ago, wherever helium lined up alongside ex-Arsenal midfielder Alex Song.

Arta's Ivorian president Tommy Tayoro Nyckoss took complaint of home-country nine SC Gagnoa earlier this month.

And the businessman convinced Kalou, 39, to articulation arsenic some a manager and a player. Gagnoa paraded him astatine a ceremonial earlier this week.

The confederate nine was relegated from the Ivory Coast's Ligue 1 past season.

They are based 40 miles from the Chelsea hero's birthplace Oume, north-west of the African country's superior Abidjan.

Kalou said: "I americium going to get a player's licence, truthful that I tin beryllium portion of manager Bernard Casoni's squad.

"And possibly if SC Gagnoa play against ASEC Mimosas oregon Africa Sports successful the Ivorian Cup, I volition instrumentality portion successful the game."

Kalou began his vocation with ASEC earlier landing his determination to Feyenoord successful 2003.