CLUB: Roma

BORN: February 2005

Remember When: He played for Shamrock Rovers II as a 15-year-old

Bio: Like Troy Parrott before him, Zefi was a well-known name ever before his eighteenth birthday.

With a headline-grabbing League of Ireland debut at fifteen and a string of highlight reel-worthy showings in Ireland underage matches, he was marked as a potential star from early on and eventually signed up by Inter Milan in 2021.

After not quite making a first team breakthrough at Inter – not helped by injury issues – he is now on the books of Serie A rivals Roma.

Reports from May suggested he was about to switch allegiances from Ireland to Albania.