Benoit Angbva: Maybe in a year or two teammates will call Eto’o “Magomed”

Anzhi Makhachkala’s Cameroonian defender Benoit Angbva spoke about the way his teammate Samuel Eto’o is settling down in Russia.

“He is comfortable in Russia. If he wasn’t he would have gone straight to the manager and said: “I don’t like it here, let me go. But he isn’t doing that, and neither does he complain when we hang out in our free time. And now that we have Samba, we all call each other brothers.”

“Have you ever seen Samuel cry?”

“Yes, on the day that we missed out on the World Cup in 2006, after drawing with Egypt. It was the only time his jolly face covered in tears.”

“In Russia the foreign players’ names are often mispronounced, or they get “local” sounding nicknames. You, for example, are called Benya by your Russian teammates, what about Samuel?”

“Everyone calls him Sam, but perhaps after another year or two, they could end up calling Magomed,” the veteran fullback told Sport-Express.