Kparobo Arierhi is the Goals Machine of the Flying Eagles Class of 2025 with some even dubbing him as ‘The New Osimhen’.
Last year in Lome, Togo, the young striker fired three goals for the Junior Eagles to emerge U20 champions of WAFU B.
His tally included a brace in the final against arch-rivals Ghana.
Kparobo Arierhi scores two goals to win the WAFU B CHAMPIONSHIP for Nigeria
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The former Beyond Limits star will again be called again to deliver the goals for the Flying Eagles at the U20 AFCON, which kicks off today in Egypt.
His release by his new Norwegian club Lillestrom for this tournament was a major coup by the team as it is not on the FIFA calendar, which means clubs could stop their players from featuring.
Lillestrom kept the team waiting on his release for several weeks, before they finally approved the request about a week to the team’s departure to Egypt.
Kparobo has since wasted no time in getting straight to business.
He scored in the team’s hard-fought 2-1 victory over Morak FC in the Flying Eagles final test game before they flew out to Egypt for the U20 AFCON.
He was again on target when the Flying Eagles stopped U20 AFCON hosts Egypt in their only international warm-up game before they open their campaign Thursday against Tunisia.
Kparobo is a technically gifted centre-forward, who also knows his way to goal.
He proved this in the youth leagues, the 2025 Gothia Cup in Sweden as well as in the NNL playoffs, which Beyond Limits topped and he was crowned both the MVP and top scorer.
After his heroics with the Flying Eagles in Togo last year, he completed his transfer to Lillestrom in Norway, when he clocked 18 on January 11.
The Norwegian club in the capital city of Oslo have a proud record of grooming Nigerian youngsters to the major leagues across Europe.
Striker Jerome Akor, who featured for the Flying Eagles at the 2019 FIFA U20 World Cup in Poland, took his chance at Lillestrom before he moved to Ligue 1 with Montpellier and these days he is plying his trade in the Spanish La Liga with Sevilla.
The last few months at Lillestrom have seen a remarkable physical growth of Kparobo and it will not be long before he also takes his shooting boots to a major league in Europe.
But first he has to deliver the goals for the Flying Eagles to punch ticket in Egypt to the 2025 U20 World Cup in Chile in September.
