 He scored a ten-minute hat-trick against BATE Borisov in June 2005, and scored five goals in ten appearances in total.He later returned to Russia with Terek Grozny, scoring seven goals in 40 appearances, before retiring from the game in 2006.In 2010, Atangana came out of retirement to play for French amateur club CO Saint-Dizier, before calling time on his career once again in 2011.