Red-hot Flying Eagles-eligible player involved in Arsenal's last training session pre-Everton 

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta promoted Flying Eagles-eligible player Ethan Nwaneri to first team training on Saturday, on the eve of his side's Premier League meeting with Everton. 

Monday, September 18, 2023 makes it one year of the attacking midfielder creating history as the youngest ever player to feature in the English top flight, aged 15 years and 181 days when he came off the bench for the closing minutes of a 3-0 win at Brentford. 

Nwaneri is also the youngest player to represent Arsenal in an official game, taking the record from Cesc Fabregas, who was 16 years and 177 days old when he played in a League Cup game against Rotherham United at Highbury.  

Arteta ran the rule over Nwaneri in Arsenal's final workout at London Colney ahead of the trip to Goodison Park and it remains to be seen whether or not he'll be named in the traveling squad. 

Now 16 and in the first year of his scholarship, Nwaneri has been in sensational form for Arsenal's development squad since the start of the new season, having scored or assisted in all the games he has played in with the exception of the 2-0 loss to Nottingham Forest. 

He has been involved in six goals from five matches in all competitions, including a hat-trick against Leicester City in the Premier League 2.

The academy product is one of the six youngsters of Nigerian descent eligible to represent Arsenal in the Premier League, the others being goalkeeper Ovie Ejeheri, fullback Cam'ron Ismail, midfielder Miguel Azeez, and strikers Henry Davies and Daniel Oyetunde. 

Ifeanyi Emmanuel 

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