Jarma Mohamed grew up in the Premier League system, moving through the academies at Liverpool and Manchester City before his path took a turn that few would have predicted.
When that route into professional football did not work out, Mohamed ended up at Jersey Bulls, a club on the island of Jersey, far from the spotlight of the top flight he had trained in as a young player.
The twist came through an app. Mohamed connected with the Somalia national team setup digitally, which opened the door to international football for a player who might otherwise have faded from the game entirely.
BBC Sport charts the full arc of that journey, from the training grounds of two of England's biggest clubs to pulling on a shirt for Somalia. It is the kind of story that reminds you how many roads there are in football, and how few of them run straight.
Originally published by BBC Africa.