Like his good friend and international team-mate Vincent Kompany, Watford's Christian Kabasele came to the Premier League via Belgium of Congolese descent.
In Kabasele's case, he was just eight months old when the family home in Congo's second city Lubumbashi was robbed, persuading them to uproot first to Brussels, then Liege.
'The situation in Congo wasn't good at the time. A lot of violence,' explains the 28-year-old. 'It was a difficult choice for my parents, they had to leave their own parents behind, but they made the sacrifice for our future. I only know my grandparents from the telephone but it's a story many African players in Europe would understand.