The 20-year-old has been turning on the style for the Gunners and for Nigeria thus far this season and could yet reach the same level of the former Bolton Wanderers legend
In case anyone was unaware of tradition he’s living up to, Alex Iwobi spelled it out for them in glorious technicolour. Collecting the ball in midfield, draped in Nigeria’s famous all-green, the teenager painted a rainbow in November’s World Cup qualifier against Algeria.
“I didn’t teach him that,” said his uncle, two-time BBC African Footballer of the Year Jay-Jay Okocha, whose own rainbow flick one afternoon for Bolton Wanderers against Arsenal remains one of the iconic moments in Premier League history.