There was a moment early in the La Liga game between Real Sociedad and Alaves last month that stopped football fans in their tracks. The game at the refurbished Anoeta Stadium was less than 20 minutes old when Martin Odegaard picked up the ball inside the Alaves half.
First, Odegaard skipped free of a challenge with a deft nutmeg. Then he bypassed two banks of eight defending Alaves players with a slide-rule pass into the path of his team-mate Mikel Oyarzabal, who dummied the goalkeeper with a feint before scoring the game's opening goal.
Odegaard's vision in picking out Oyarzabal wasn't an isolated moment.