There were only three minutes remaining in the first half of the low-key friendly between Germany and Armenia in June 2014.
It was still goal-less and, since Die Mannschaft were due to leave for Brazil the next day, the players were holding back a little.
Marco Reus, however, was chasing down an Armenian defender when, to the crowd’s horror, he fell, screamed and pounded his hand in agony.
The Borussia Dortmund forward had torn his ankle ligaments. Ten hours later, the Germany squad set off for Brazil without him. Five weeks later, as they lifted the World Cup, they also held his shirt in the air.
But it is not only the Brazil World Cup that Reus has missed. Injury after injury has followed and the player, one of the best forwards of his generation, has sadly become one of the most unfortunate too.
He is 29 now but he has played only 30 times for Germany. In addition, he has, remarkably, won only one title, the 2017 German Cup.