Gairo Voro comes from a remote fishing village in PNG's Central Province, about a one-and-a-half-hour drive from the capital.
He is a PNG Kumuls playmaker described as a Jarome Luai clone, but requests for an interview with him were politely declined.
The language barrier is one reason, according to Joey Grima, the man who discovered Voro.
Grima is the PNG Chiefs' player development manager, responsible for finding local talent, and his journey to Voro's village paid off.
Across PNG, around 1,000 tribes speak 800 languages.
In Voro's village, neither English nor Tok Pisin, one of PNG's national languages, is spoken.
As Grima attests, Voro's football offers a way to understand him beyond words.