The young striker was not expecting to be in City’s first team so soon but his success means there is much greater attention when he goes back domestic to NigeriaIn the city of Owerri,the capital of Imo state in Nigeria, Kelechi Iheanacho’s old friends will be queuing up on Sunday external one of the social centres where they charge the locals to watch English football – and where they can now keep in touch with his emergence as the up-and-coming star of Manchester City.
Growing up, or those events – sometimes with hundreds packed around one screen – were pretty much the only way those in Iheanacho’s neighbourhood could follow what was happening in the Premier League.
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Source: theguardian.com