Two decades have since passed since Justice Sithole was last a youth international who won caps for both Amajita and the national U23 team known as Amaglug-glug back then.
Yet Sithole still recalls how a dream opportunity to join French club Racing Club Lens slipped through his fingers.
He spent three-and-a-half years at Chiefs after being brought in from the amateur ranks in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal.