IT remains a moment worthy of leaving dinner party guests agog, bringing Twitter to a standstill and burning out 100 DVD players over the course of a man's lifetime.

"I've watched the goal a million times and that's just today," grinned Ikechi Anya, when speaking, it seems, for the billionth time about that crisp and clinical finish against Germany in Dortmund, a fortnight ago. "I can't get enough of it."

Scoring against the world champions on their own patch, even if your team does go on to lose 2-1, does not happen every day and Anya should be unapologetic when admitting he has savoured every glorious moment of the fallout.

As of yesterday, his tweet about never having been able to beat Manuel Neuer, the Germany goalkeeper, on the computer game FIFA14 before travelling to Signal Iduna Park in the dark blue of Scotland had been recirculated 30,000 times by his well-tickled followers. He admits the initial feedback caused both his mobile phone and tablet to crash.

Anya's reminiscences, of course, are a delight to listen to and shall, no doubt, remain so. Professional careers require more than just anecdotes to cut the mustard, though.

The Watford midfielder is all too aware of that fact. That goal in Germany was great, but it will lose a little of its lustre should it fail to be the starting point of a grander tale that brings success in addition to cyberfans.

"When you have that feeling, you want to work twice as hard to relive it," said Anya. I don't want to just be the person who scored against Germany. Ultimately, we lost the game, so it wasn't even a winner. I'd like to be remembered as one of the team who qualified for 2016."

Making it to the finals of the European Championship in France would certainly complete a remarkable rise for Anya. This is a guy who crawled out of bed at 5.30am as a 16-year-old to catch three buses from his family home in Oxford to the training ground at Wycombe Wanderers, where he served his apprenticeship.

When he found himself without a club in 2009 after leaving Northampton Town, he travelled to the south of Spain to kick-start his career in the Glenn Hoddle Academy. Spells with the reserve teams of Sevilla and Celta Vigo led to a transfer to Granada and a loan move to Cadiz before he found his way back to the UK with Watford.

With such a backstory, not to mention a solid Christian belief, he possess the unshakeable view that anything is possible. Asked if he is confident of making it to Euro 2016 and the answer is pretty much what you would anticipate.

"Yeah," he replied. "I saw an interview with Stevie Naismith recently in which he said this Scotland squad has more quality than any other one he has been in.

Naismith has also gone on record saying that he believes Scotland are capable of winning every one of their remaining nine qualifying fixtures. Anya's position is clear when asked if he agrees with that element of the Everton forward's recent State of the Nation address.

"Definitely," he said. "That is what Naismith thinks and he is more experienced than me. If we use the performance from the Germany game as the bar, we are going to win a lot of games."

Anya, of course, has become a firm favourite of the Tartan Army since earning the first of his seven caps as a substitute against Belgium 12 months ago. What the national team manager, Gordon Strachan, cannot understand is why he continues to ply his trade at Watford rather than in the English Premiership or with the likes of Celtic in the Champions League.

Quizzed about moving elsewhere, the 26-year-old insisted he is open to all possibilities while keeping things understandably vague. There are no grey areas, however, when discussing the sense of self-belief that Strachan has instilled within him.

"He could play Premier League players ahead of me, but he has faith, and for that I'm grateful," said Anya.

"Having the confidence of a manager of that pedigree is only going to give you confidence. There is no fear when you walk onto the pitch and that is the best thing a player can have."

Strachan may believe Anya should be playing in the green and white of his former club, but the fact is that this fellow, born and raised in Castlemilk before moving south to Oxford aged seven, is a very definite Rangers man.

He was prevented from going to watch matches as a child as his father Chinasa, a research scientist from Nigeria, insisted he focus all his attentions on education. Indeed, his trip to Ibrox yesterday morning to plug tickets - costing as much as £45 - for next month's Euro 2016 visit of Georgia, was the first time he had seen the famous marble staircase with his own eyes.

"It is a bit crazy," he said. "As a kid, this is the team you support. When I approached the stadium, I was like: 'Wow!'. This is quite a big deal. I hope my first game at the ground will be for Scotland."

In the meantime, it's back to the games console. You have to ask. Has he managed any goals against Neuer in cyberspace since he slotted that one past him for real?

"That was just a spur of the moment joke that sort of went viral," he smiled. "I don't even really play FIFA that much.

"It got to the point where I couldn't read all the replies. My iPad and my iPhone were freezing because there were so many.

"I don't think I'd like to be one of those people with a million followers who get that on a daily basis, but once in a lifetime was a nice experience."