I used to teach and work in Equatorial Guinea and we had a group of students in Boro. I took them to a match and they wanted to meet their hero. He’d played every match that season so it was a dead cert they’d meet him. For some reason he wasn’t even on the bench that day. We were all gutted. Luckily he did attend and they unfurled a large EG flag when the players came out after the game and he ran over to them.. it was truly heart warming to see the joy on his face and theirs. Shame he didn’t play though.