Breaking in behind the Bali United defence in the 90th minute of his side’s Asian Champions League qualifier, the Victory winger delivered the moment that he had teased for so long when he slid a shot past keeper Wawan Hendrawan and secured his maiden Victory goal.

And while the stakes surrounding the moment were the highest that they might have been, the 23-year-old’s goal that made it 5-0 to the hosts, the explosion of noise from the 5387 fans in attendance that greeted it showed just how keenly anticipated it was.

Officially signing from NPL Victoria side Avondale FC during the January transfer window of the 2018/19 season, Kamsoba had played 1,935 minutes of competitive football before he rippled the back of the net on Tuesday night.

A dynamic, 164cm attacker from the state leagues with a penchant for acrobatics, Kamsoba’s was immediately granted cult-hero status when he arrived at Victory, and that was even before taking into account his incredible journey from a Tanzanian refugee camp to the A-League.

But, while his explosive skills have been a positive since his arrival at AAMI, his lack of end-product had nonetheless begun to haunt him – especially as the tone around Victory became greyer in light of disappointing results in 2019/20.

“I don’t know how I feel anymore,” a laughing Kamsoba said after his goal. “It’s been that long I’ve lost feeling, I didn’t know how to score any more.

“So when I scored, it’s great to score again. Very happy.

“The funny thing is that Krusy [Robbie Kruse] was teasing me about [two earlier missed chances against Bali], telling me that I was cursed.

“And then somehow I got up and then I scored. And thank god for that.

“I just, I didn’t put pressure on myself anymore because people were always telling me, since last year, that you’ve got to get a goal, you’ve got to get a goal.

“And then in the end I just lost everything. If I score, I score if I don’t I don’t. That’s the way I’ve been playing my football, hoping that I’ll score, and it finally happened.”

Tuesday, it appears, was an occasion for firsts; Kamsoba’s goal putting the cherry on the sundae of Carlos Salvachúa’s first win since taking the interim Head Coach role following the departure of Marco Kurz.

With two games under his belt – Victory lost Salvachúa’s first game in charge against Adelaide United last week – the Spaniard now faces a jam-packed schedule of Sydney FC on Friday night, Japanese side Kashima Antlers in an ACL playoff next Tuesday and an away trip to Perth Glory next Saturday.

Facing the 2018/19 Champions, 2018 ACL Champions and 2018/19 Premiers represent a murderer’s row of challenges for the new Victory boss but in the spirit of iron sharpening iron, he has welcomed them as a chance to bed down his own principles on his new squad.

“I think he’s bringing his own structure,” Kamsoba said of Salvachúa. “Obviously we’ve had him for just a week and we’re trying to adapt very quickly. I think there’s a bit of a change.

“The change is just the rotations that we used to do. I reckon during trainings and during games we used to focus on doing the rotations instead of playing football and for the last maybe week we haven’t done the rotations we’ve just been playing football.

“We make the choices [to switch] ourselves.

“If you find yourself on that side you play that side. If you find yourself in the middle, you play that role.”