When Nico Williams led a happy dance in a mild summer night in Berlin last July last July, the season of his dreams was completed. Now he is determined to cause similar damage and to keep sporty Bilbao on course for her first European trophy.

Williams produced two performances of the game within 100 days.

At first he helped to end Bilbao’s four decades of waiting for cutlery, then he opened the goals for Spain in the German capital when his country won her fourth European championship title.

Fans and the biggest clubs on the continent looked lovingly at this football outsider, who exploded on stage a few seasons ago, but whose stock has increased by 10 times in the past 12 months.

This ascent began with his role in winning the Copa del Rey last year, the first success of the athletic club since a league and a cup double in 1984.

Williams was born in Pamplona and regularly recognizes the life that he came to Ghana despite his parents’ fights before fled to Spain.

After placing the medal of his winner of the euro in 2024 around his mother’s neck, he said: “I run quickly, but not as quickly as my mother. She escaped death and crossed the Sahara from Ghana to Spain. I gave her my medal because she deserves it more.”

It seems that the Humble Williams will have his choice when it comes to his next club, with Arsenal the latest, which is strongly connected to his services.

Not that he is in a hurry to leave Bilbao. You are his club.

“I was the first to cry, you can’t even imagine what it feels like,” he said after her historic Spanish cup victory against Mallorca in Sevilles Cartuja.

“It is a dream to win with the club of my life,” he said.

It was monumental for the association and came after no fewer than seven defeats in a row, including the Europa League 2012.

The Coronavirus pandemic meant that in 2021 they wrote unwanted history and lost two Copa del Rey final against Basque Rival Real Sociedad and then Barcelona in two weeks.