Imagine this.
Unknown in football circles back home in Brazil and yet bossing the scene in your first season playing in a football-proud country named South Africa.
This is the story of Lucas Ribeiro Costa, who is little-known in his South American native, yet is bossing the PSL in the colours of Mamelodi Sundowns.
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Ribeiro Costa has powered his way to top of the scoring charts in the DStv Premiership with 11 goals in only 15 league appearances.
The 25-year-old has another four goals in the CAF Champions League and Nedbank Cup.
This means in his first season at Sundowns, Ribeiro Costa has been scoring a goal with every second game that he plays.
The presence of fellow South Americans Marcelo Allende (Chile), Gaston Sirino (Uruguay), and the pair of Junior Mendieta and Matias Esquivel (Argentina) has made him feel at home.
Yet, while Costa enjoys the best season of his professional career, there is deafening silence about him back home in Brazil.
As strange as this may sound, none of the Brazilian who played in South Africa had ever heard of Ribeiro Costa prior to his signing at Sundowns.
From the older generation of Pio Nogueira, Camilo Freitas through to Pepe de Jesus, Dani Julio, Helton Da Rocha, Davi Rancan, Igor Alves, Vinicius and Ricardo Nascimento, none of them knew about the creative left-footer.
They all answered 'who?' upon being asked about the new Sundowns signing.
The media back home in Brazil has rarely mentioned him.
Even on a flight back home, he would arrive just like any other traveller with only his family to meet him at the airport.
Ribeiro Costa left Brazil as a teenager having only played for the reserve team of Brazilian club Pinheiros Atletico Clube.
He then went on to the reserve team of Valenciennes in France in July 2017.
While in France, he was then promoted to the senior team the following year but found no joy in earning minutes in Ligue 2 with his only appearance coming courtesy of a six-minute run in the Coupe de France.
After two years at Valenciennes, Costa went across the border to Belgium, where he found home at Royal Excelsior Virton in the second-tier league.
None of his eight appearances there were full shifts, though he was able to score four goals, which immediately ignited the interest of top-league club Chaleroi SC and he duly moved on for the 2020/21 season.
With Chaleroi, the Brazilian winger played twice in the Europa League qualifiers, while getting 99 minutes (spread over eight appearances) in the league.
This was to be the only time Ribeiro Costa has ever played top-flight football, with his only start lasting a mere 45 minutes, while all his other appearances came from the bench.
From the end of January 2021, Ribeiro Costa went on six-month loan spells at RWD Molenbeek, Royal Excel Mouscron and SK Beveren, who all play in the Challenger Pro League (second tier of Belgian football).
His time at Molenbeek delivered a single assist despite playing regularly. Then at Mouscron, he scored six goals, before moving to SK Beveren, where he has spent the last 18 months.
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The 2022/23 campaign was productive in that he scored 11 (plus 8 assists) in 33 appearances, missing just a single match all season.
Those scoring and assist numbers are what attracted Sundowns.