Some of the finer details have gone fuzzy in the memory of Martin Strange, but even a decade on he can still plot the course of a 2012 friendly and why it mattered to Norwegian side Mjondalen.
‘We beat Stromsgodset 5-2, which at the time was a big deal for us,’ Strange recalls. ‘We were in the second tier and they were local opposition.’
Arch-rivals, in fact. And though some regulars were missing from each side, Stromsgodset were still a top-flight scalp.
‘But of course the headline wasn’t that,’ Strange explains. ‘Most of the attention was regarding a 13-year-old playing for Stroms-godset.