Chelsea will not only be facing FC Krasnodar in the Champions League on Wednesday evening but, it would seem, the whole of Russia.
The group stage debutants from Russia's deep south are the second team of most of the country's football fans - and it's all thanks to their owner.
The term billionaire Russian oligarch conjures up a certain image but Sergey Galitsky has always done things his own way.
Instead of exploiting Russia's vast natural resources to make obscene fortunes following the decline of the Soviet Union, Galitsky gave something back to the long-suffering people.