Everton striker Romelu Lukaku has spoken of his relationship with Sunderland boss Dick Advocaat.
Advocaat handed Lukaku his international debut for Belgium in 2010 when he was aged just 16.
"He [Advocaat] is the one who gave me my chance to play for my country and that's when my life took a new direction," said Lukaku. "From starting playing [for Anderlecht] at 16, scoring my first goal, my life changed. I was still in school, people were not looking at me five months before, but then when I went to school, everything changed.
"Then I started playing for Belgium and it was a whole new thing. I will always be grateful to him for that.
"If he wasn't there I could have been in the Under-21s for another six months, but I was there at 16 and my story started."