Pepijn Lijnders can still vividly recall the image of watching a 10-year-old boy demand 30 of his FC Porto academy teammates to play with more initiative and commitment.
It was in 2007 that a 24-year-old Lijnders arrived at Porto as a youth coach from PSV Eindhoven with extremely limited ability to converse in Portuguese.
Recruited to help restructure the club's academy, Lijnders' initial success in Portugal would depend on a young head accurately relaying his instructions.
"Luckily there was always one boy who could speak perfect English in each age group, so I would let him translate my stories - that was brilliant," the Reds assistant manager tells Liverpoolfc.