Chido Obi-Martin recently scored ten goals for the Arsenal U16 team, a feat that garnered worldwide attention. The 15-year-old is recognised as a prodigious talent, solidifying his status as one of the top youth team players in Europe.
Arsenal is thrilled to have him in their ranks and anticipates his continued development within their youth teams. However, the young attacker’s international future may change in the coming months.
Although Obi-Martin currently plays for Denmark at the youth level, a report in the Daily Mail suggests that England is keen on persuading him to represent them. The 15-year-old is eligible to play for the Three Lions and Nigeria, with England showing a serious interest.
While Denmark hopes he will continue playing for them, the English Football Association is reportedly exploring avenues to convince him to switch his allegiance and play for England.
Just Arsenal Opinion
Obi-Martin has a big international future ahead of him as one of the top players in the country.
We expect him to keep delivering top performances for our youth team, which will intensify the battle for his international allegiance.
Hopefully, it will not distract him and make him struggle to play well for us.
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This is know a nutural goal scoring CF who should be natured well just like Mika Biereth this are the kind of CF arsenal should be moulding.
Biereth of arsenal who is currently on loan at Motherwell has played six games scored 4 goals and provide 2 assists,he has contributed about more than 40% of Motherwell goals that shows how good he is if chances are given to him which might not happen considering Balogun asked but weren’t granted and ended up leaving.
I saw Biereth for Motherwell recently and he looks very promising indeed.He is tall and powerful and a natural finisher who gets on the end of crosses.He is one of our loanees who Arteta should give serious consideration to calling up next season.With all the clamour for a big natural centre forward, we may well have one on our books already.Someone who could save the Club a fortune.
Arsenal is a ‘microcosm’ of England. Promotion to senior levels of the game is solely by age. Please don’t cite ‘exceptions to the rule’ to fight this reality. Exceptional talent is made to stagnate and die out of sheer boredom and absence of challenge through repetitive stamping of the same ground. Obi-Martin, as we speak now should be an established U-21 player. If after a full season with the U-21s, he’s still overpowering defences and scoring 15-20 goals, then he needs to be integrated into the first team. Why is it so easy to spend millions on below-par players than promoting academy talent? This same systematic suppression of talent is what May just cost England the player. Other countries appreciate and use talent better.
He is 15 years old and still at school, also I believe he has played for the U21 team, but at his young age lots can happen before he matures into a young adult. I trust the club to look after their young players and have no doubt he will be blooded in the first team in the near future but to talk about him being a regular in the first team and your assertion that “exceptional talent is made to stagnate and die out of sheer boredom” is a somewhat exaggerated opinion, in my humble opinion, that is. Give the kid time to enjoy being a kid rather than forcing the pressures of adulthood onto him. I’m sure his time will come.
@Mohlaka surely have no idea the psychological impact of growing up in the eyes of the public due to early/pre-mature fame. i’d urge him and those in agreement with him to desist from such thinking as the bad far outweighs the good. Gotta let the kids enjoy their childhood while working their way up the right way.