11 Superstar footballers who later played for obscure teams

#11 Samuel Eto\'o (FW) - Antalyaspor

Samuel Eto’o was a part of Pep Guardiola’s golden generation of Barcelona squad

Arguably the most high-profile name in this list, as well as one of football’s most polarising figures, Samuel Eto’o is a footballer par excellence. The only player in the history of the game to win back to back European trebles, that too with different teams, Eto’o is undoubtedly the greatest African footballer of all time, along with fellow marksman, Didier Drogba.

The true reflection of the fighter in him came to the forefront in the 2009/10 season, when his powers were said to be waning. Eto’o had to suffer the ignominy of being shipped out of his beloved Camp Nou, that too as a makeweight for the incoming Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

To make things worse, Barcelona valued the Swedish striker at a whopping €46 million more than the Cameroonian. Indeed, a fire was lit in inside one of the greatest forwards of our era, as he played a central role in Inter Milan bulldozing past any and every adversary they came across.

Never the kind to let his occasional temperamental issues ruin his game, Eto’o is one of modern football’s most decorated players, having won everything there is to win, including becoming the world’s highest-paid player, after moving to Anzhi Makhachkala, whose chief went from prince to pauper in the space of a year.

Eto’o raised eyebrows again when he moved to the little known Turkish club, Antalyaspor, who seem to have an even more delusional chief, who dreams of bringing Lionel Messi to his club one day.

The squad:

The team in a 3-1-3-3 formation