Emiliano Martinez, world champion. That might have seemed far-fetched four years ago when he sat in the stands as just another Argentinian fan in Russia, watching France win 4-3 in an epic World Cup knockout game.
There Martinez had told his brother sitting next to him that he would be playing in the next World Cup. It was ambitious, to say the least. He was then 25, a back-up at Getafe on his sixth loan from Arsenal; another followed at Reading where his status rose before an unlikely opportunity opened at Arsenal when Bernd Leno suffered a freak injury.
