Jose Mourinho was the last Milan manager who led the club to Champions League Glory.
And an ex-PRO golfer became a player manager in the Isthmian League South East Division had a chair in the front row after winning a place in the Italian team on a TV TV show.
And he had already had a stint as the body of Cristiano Ronaldo.
Ben Greenhalgh won the first and only series of the next star of football, which was broadcast on Sky in 2010 and earned a professional contract of six months at the interim age only 17.
And only a few months later he was just behind Mourinho while he wins a 2-0 win over Bayern Munich in the final of the Champions League Bastee to complete the Treble.
Greenhalgh was not part of the MatchDay team, in fact he never made a first team for Inter.
But he did get the medal from a winner on the Bernabeu.
Now a player manager at Non-League Margate, Greenhalgh, 33, told Sunsport: “Looking back it is absolutely mental. It is incredible to be part of Inter's best season ever.
“I was two rows behind the Dugout.
“I didn't celebrate much, I almost wanted me to run on the field and be more involved.
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“I took the opportunity to take the Champions League medal. We got about five extras.
“They were perhaps for players who pulled Mourinho who were not there like Ricardo Quaresma and Marko Arnautovic.
“It is the best story I've ever been in football. It will keep track of me forever and I am really happy with that.”
The Champions League final on May 22, 2010 came 401 days after Greenhalgh made his Welling United First-Team debut on his 17th birthday.
But his stratospheric rise from Bexley to the Bernabeu came from his victory over the short-lived TV talent show.
He was actually not aware of the tests when his Kent Fa team went for what they thought was a regular training day in London to spot cameras, inter -coaches and presenter Jamie Redknapp.
Of the 20,000 hopeful people, the scouts of Inter returned to 40 before a last ten was invited to Milan.
Greenhalgh admitted: “Nobody knew what was going on, because a show like this had never been broadcast before.
“Now those shows are pretty nostalgic.
“I don't know why it never comes back because it really did well. One evening it was strictly beaten for viewers.
“I saw it in Italy, already played for Inter. People tried to contact me and find out if I was the winner.
“I remember my Facebook crashed with friendship requests.”
Redknapp took the 17-year-old Ben under his care and even gave the young person his mobile number to guide him.
Ironically, Greenlagh thinks that his career could have become better if he hadn't won the show – because Redknapp said his father Harry would have signed him in Tottenham.
But the wing player would not exchange the interwears and win the Champions League and training under the Special One.
Greenhalgh, who had grown up inter -packages, said: “It is quite surrealistic from how monumental Inter Milan is like a football club.
“Meeting Jose was very nerve -racking.
“He had an incredible appearance, he was then the best manager in the world.
“He was so respectful for me and immediately put me at ease.
“Suddenly I was thrown in training with Lucio, Quaresma, Mario Balotelli, Wesley Sneijder, Diego Milito, Samuel Eto'o, Javier Zanetti made everything effortlessly to look at 39.
“I have Nootmegged Patrick Vieira, but it didn't make the show!”
But the Greenhalgh opening session at Inter was not his first time he rubbed a shoulders with football.
Because he was only 16 years old, he got a performance while Ronaldo's Body Double by a friend of football choreographer who worked on Nike and Adidas advertisements.
Greenhalgh also played the will of fellow links-footers Mesut Ozil, Robin van Persie and Gareth Bale, and protected the players against tackles and risking injuries.
Greenhalgh said: “Cristiano was my idol. Nobody could shock me so much. It was crazy, he had just won the Champions League in Manchester United.
“We had a few funny moments.
“The media came that we were in an advertisement in a gym and suddenly about 100 cameramen floated outside.
“I was dressed as Ronaldo, so I ran through the street under an umbrella. All journalists followed and Ronaldo slid the back door unnoticed.
“Doing Ozil was probably the best because we are similar creative players and used to have kickabouts between sets.”
Greenhalgh, however, had to give up his job as 'Ronaldo' because he could not leave the training to fly from Milan to Madrid to film more advertisements.
In the end he stayed at Inter, including a fruitful loan tint at Como, who scored eight goals in 12 games.
Como wanted to make a deal permanent when his extensive interwork went in 2011, but the financial disorder of Italian football meant that the club could not afford to pay him.
So he returned to England and joined Brighton in League One.
The seagulls flew on their progression through the competitions and he could not break into the team and suffered a similar battle in Birmingham.
Greenhalgh saw that back in the Non-League, returning to where it all started with Welling, still only 19.
However, it was a stint at Inverness, which Ironically launched Greenhalgh in a pro career in another sport.
He added: “I didn't thank John Hughes for a lot at inverness for dropping … but he made me a very good golfer.
“I was on the track every day. I went to Scotland a six handicapper and scratched.
“In England I managed to become a PGA professional for my playing skills test.
“I did it 18 months, won one pro competition and broke the course record at Addington, to which I can hold.
“But I couldn't play the big tournaments because of my football matches at the weekend. I was a football player who played golf.”
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Now established as a coach of Dartford's Academy and “Something Building Something” as a player manager at Margate-Die Last month in the eighth play-offs of England Lost-Wil Grenhalgh play like his body Double Ronaldo until he is 40 before he climbs the ladder as a baffer.
But whatever Greenhalgh achieves differently – whether as a football player, coach or golfer – he will always have the Champions League medal, even if an interling comes again.
Greenhalgh explained: “The partner of Zanetti sent me five years ago asking if he could buy my Champions League medal from me for the Inter Museum.
“I may have earned money, but I knew I would never surpass it again, so it would be difficult to renounce it.
“The Libertines sponsor the kit of Margate and this year we went the Inter Milan style because of my links.
“I want to try to get Zanetti a Margate shirt to set it up in his restaurant.
“Hopefully it's a good year for Inter Milan and hopefully it's a good year for Margate.”