The football journey of Charlton midfielder Elizabeta Ejupi, 24, begins 1,626 miles from The Valley. To consult Google Maps is to meet warning triangles cautioning that the route “includes a car transporter, may cross country borders and your destination is in a different timezone”. Driving takes 27 hours. A plane takes three.

Aged three, Ejupi alighted an aeroplane that had carried her, her parents and her older brother away from Kosovo, on the brink of war, to London. “There were massacres, killings,” Ejupi explains. “We were leaving to survive.” Her family escaped “before it all kicked off”, and in doing so spared Elizabeta a childhood of unspeakable horrors.

Between February 1998 and June 1999, war raged between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - the FRY, comprising Serbia and Montenegro - and the Kosovo Liberation Army, who sought to separate Kosovo from the FRY and were supported by NATO.

NATO’s intervention was followed by the mass expulsion of Kosovar Albanians. In 2001, a United Nations-administered Supreme Court ruled that Serbian troops had not committed genocide against ethnic Albanians, as they had intended displacement and not destruction, but that crimes against humanity and war crimes had taken place amid "a systematic campaign of terror, including murders, rapes, arsons and severe maltreatments". It has since been estimated that 13,517 people were killed or went missing during the conflict, with as many as 1.45 million Kosovo Albanians displaced.