The first coach of Girona and Ukraine forward Artem Dovbik Serhiy Kovalevych told how he discerned the young footballer's talent.
"He never exalted himself, never spread his fingers to somehow distinguish himself among the rest. Just really a man who has thought about football all his life. He didn't have any other thoughts.
I don't even know if he had any interest in girls at that time. I think he was interested because the young man is handsome, but he didn't care about that for sure. There was only the ball in his head. He lived not far from here, he used to come to these training sessions, and then we were training in another neighbourhood. He would come there and we would finish late, the boy there was only about football," said Kovalevich.