Chelsea colossus Antonio Rudiger returns to Rome on Tuesday night as a significant figure in Italian football, and not only because the powerful £34million defender was a major reason his former club qualified for this season's Champions League.
Rudiger is remembered in Serie A for the way he was forced to stand up to racial slurs, opening up the issue to wider debate and scrutiny in Italian football.
It was last December that Lazio's Senad Lulic mocked Rudiger after the Rome derby by saying: 'Two years ago he was selling socks and belts in Stuttgart, now he acts like he's a phenomenon.