his chelsea manager josé mourinho praised the young ivorian as being hardworking, versatile, eager to improve and unafraid of the physical side of the game. kalou admitted that he brought a camera with him to his first training session at chelsea's training centre at cobham because he could not believe that he was going to be rubbing shoulders with famous footballers like michael ballack, john terry and didier drogba. describing the experience, kalou said:"this was the dream moment of my life and i did not want to wake up and find that it was not real."