Super Eagles Bolton White Apartments camp was on Saturday thrown into
celebration after Ngeria international, Alex Iwobi scored for Arsenal against Everton in a premier league fixture to put scores at 2-0 shortly before halftime.
Both the coaches and backroom staff expressed their excitement seeing the youngster grab the headlines ahead of the all-important clash against the Pharaohs of Egypt in Kaduna on Friday.
Iwobi, a cousin of ex-international, Austin Okocha is one of the 19 foreign based stars that chief coach, Samson Siasia will be relying on to destroy the Egyptians.
In yesterday’s EPL game, the 19-year-old Nigeria international showed tremendous composure to score the Gunners second shortly before half-time after Danny Welbeck had broken the deadlock early with his fourth goal in nine games.
After crashing out of the FA Cup and Champions League in the preceding seven days, it was an impressive statement of intent from Arsenal even though they still trail Leicester City and Tottenham in the table.
