DANNY ARMSTRONG takes a look at the career of one of Russia’s best-ever midfielders and leaders...

IN 1938, just a year before the bubbling unrest in Nazi Germany spilled into the horrors of World War Two, Donetsk Oblast, the easternmost province of Ukraine was cracked into two portions.
One was christened Stalino after Joseph Stalin; the other Voroshilovgrad in honour of the great military officer Kliment Voroshilov.
Three years later Voroshilov, a man of proud Ukrainian heritage, would valiantly counterattack advancing German tanks armed with only a pistol during Operation...