Anzhi Makhatchkala did not feature on Samuel Eto'o's radar when he left Cameroon to pursue his football dream at the age of 13, yet he has no regrets about taking his considerable talents to deepest, darkest Dagestan.

It's hard to imagine a new European sporting superpower emerging amid a backdrop of ethnic unrest in Makhatchkala that forces Anzhi's players to live and train in Moscow and commute on a plane for home matches, yet the presence of former Barcelona and Inter Milan striker ...

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