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Chelsea vs all of Russia! Krasnodar are everyone's second team because of their popular billionaire supermarket tycoon owner who trains with the team and built the club from scratch to the Champions League in just 12 years

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.

Krasnodar drew 1-1 with Rennes in their first-ever Champions League group game last week - pictured are the celebrations after Cristian Ramirez scored their goal in France
Chelsea's squad train at the Krasnodar Stadium ahead of Wednesday night's encounter
Krasnodar are owned by billionaire Sergey Galitsky, who founded the Magnit supermarket chain in the 1990s and brought affordable food to the public for the first time

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.