Barcelona's former player tells the shocking story: I was not given a home, I slept in the training center

Alex Song, former Barcelona and Arsenal player, has not had a good adventure at the Russian championship at Rubin Kazan's club.

The midfielder from Cameroon is now part of Zion in Switzerland, but he has not forgotten the horror he has experienced in Russia.

I couldn't tell people it wasn't good, I had to say everything was okay, because I didn't want them to worry. I had to be positive and not make other people feel bad, especially my wife and two boys in London”, Song said.

When we first signed, I was told they would give me a home. But it was a month, two months, six months, and I had no home. Then I was taken from the hotel to a room in the field of training, and I had to live there, which was three months after I moved to Casan”.

They told me that I should wait for the house to end, but one day I spoke to a woman who aimed at designing houses and told me no one from the club had contacted”, he added.

The training course was fine, but it's not like when you live at home. It was even worse than at the hotel. My room on the train field was also good, but it's not good for a footballer. You cannot relax”.

Everybody either owned a house or left the club. I spent my time sitting in my room and never turned on the lights. I sat alone on my computer without TV because I didn't understand anything about Russian television. My whole life was just a computer and a phone, and that wasn't healthy”.

To be honest, I don't know why I didn't turn on the lights. They worked, but I think I felt humble and alone about it standing that way”, highlighted among other things the man who wore Barcelona's fan and shared the field and everything with Lionel Messin at 65 matches, who scored a goal, just to remember for the rest of his life that he played for a historic club.

The 31-year-old spent most of his career at Arsenal. He wore the Topcin fanline for 7 seasons, making 215 presentations in all competitions, as he achieved 10 goals.

Song played two seasons borrowed for clubs like Charlon Athletic and West Ham United, until before he went to Arsenal in 2005, one season has also worn the fanele of the Bastia club in Ligue 1 in France./Periscopi/