How to fix locally Cartesian coordinates on the surface of a sphere?

Question

Page 166 of this book says that

any geometry, no matter how curved, is locally flat, at each spatial point we can always construct an infinitesimal patch of a Cartesian coordinate system.

By question is what can be (or how to think about) the local Cartesian coordinates on the surface of an unit sphere? Since it is a Cartesian coordinate the metric tensor must be $\delta_{ij}$. If I use $(x,y,z)$ system, the metric tensor does bot become $\delta_{ij}$ because of the constraint $x^2+y^2+z^2=1$. In spherical polar Coordinates too, the metric is not $\delta_{ij}$.

Answer 1

Comments to the post (v1):

1. By the word locally flat Ref. 1 seems to refer the existence of Riemann normal coordinates, i.e. one can arrange at a point that (i) the metric tensor is the Kronecker delta and that (ii) the first partial derivatives of the metric vanish.

2. This result is not necessarily possible to extend to an open neighborhood because of curvature, cf. e.g. this and this Phys.SE posts.

References:

1. U. Leonhardt & T. Philbin, Geometry and Light: The Science of Invisibility, 2010; p. 166.