Latte Lath: Carrick never screamed, he knew how to listen

For Emmanuel Latte Lath, the big moment came within three minutes of his Bundesliga debut for Union Berlin. At the age of 27, it was his first appearance in a major European league. And he scored. "It was like an explosion, the emotion that I had inside."

It was a simple header against Eintracht Frankfurt but for Latte Lath it was much more than that. It was the culmination of a journey that began in the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire before emigrating to Italy at eight years old. More recently, it was a career that had stalled.