Jose Ignacio Peleteiro Ramallo knows his way around a field.
The 33-year-old Spaniard, more familiar to most simply as Jota, demonstrated as much over the course of a football career that took him from childhood club Celta Vigo to Brentford, Birmingham City and Aston Villa, where his contract was terminated early, triggering a return to La Liga with Alavés.
Since his retirement in October 2022, however, the former attacking midfielder has become familiar with a quite different type of field: the kind rutted by tractor tracks rather than marked out by precise white lines.