Ethan Nwaneri with Gabriel Martinelli after the victory over Brentford.
It is difficult to imagine that in the Premier League, perhaps the best league in the world, with its millions invested in large reinforcements, an opportunity like the one it had this Sunday will present itself. Ethan Nwaneri. At just 15 years and 181 days, the little boy who still hadn’t finished high school came off the bench in the Arsenal victory, English tournament leader, e became the youngest rookie in the history of the English league. Historical.
Nwaneri is from March 2007 and was not yet born when the Emirates Stadium opened, The current field of the Gunners, nor when the London team reached the Champions League final. This Sunday he went to the bank and, with the set result, jumped on the pitch to play the final minutes of the 3-0 win over Brentford. So it became the youngest rookie in history, not just Arsenal but the entire Premier League. The record was held by Harvey Elliott, who was baptized at the age of 16 and 30 days for Fulham in 2019.
“The opportunities appear,” said coach Mikel Arteta before the visit to Brentford, who has had some weight loss (Martin Odegaard and Oleksandr Zinchenko) and arranged for the presence of a bank of alternates with an average age of 21, including little Nwaneri.
It is one of the great gems that projects English football into the future. He can play as a link, attacker and even jump down from the left wing. Used to playing in categories older than his age both in the club and in the English teams this season Nwaneri had broken both the Under 18 and Under 21, with four goals and four assists.
It caught the attention of Arteta, who this week he uploaded him to train with the professional team, and now he’s had his first First Division experience, 83 behind him and a promising career ahead of him. It was just a few moments of action for Nwaneri, who is sure to cause a stir on Monday when he enters the classroom.
The statistics of the match
Source: Clarin
