After 62 minutes of Huesca’s creditable draw away at Villarreal in their La Liga opener, Kelechi Nwakali crossed the chalk at the Estadio De La Ceramica to earn his first minutes in top flight football for close to three years.
What transpired was a relatively uneventful half-hour, but it hardly mattered. It was enough that, finally, this symbol of hope and expectation in Nigerian football circles now appeared to have his career back on track.
This is, after all, the most recent anointee for the throne of Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigeria's last truly great on-ball dazzler.