Iwobi picks Okocha goal against Oliver Kahn as best

Alex Iwobi

Super Eagles youngster, Alex Iwobi, wasn’t born even when his uncle Austin Jay-Jay Okocha scored one of the best goals ever in the history of the German Bundesliga.

However, the 20-year-old Arsenal forward recalls that moment as his favourite as a fan.

Okocha who was about Iwobi’s age at that time was playing for Eintracht Frankfurt and notched a beauty against Karlsruhe which had German legend, Oliver Kahn, in goal.

The attacking midfielder appeared to have dispossessed an opposition defender before beating two of them and then Kahn to score.


The goal was voted the Goal of the Season as well as the Goal of the Year by soccer magazines and Sportschau in 1993.

Iwobi, who was born three years after that famous strike, took to Twitter on Wednesday to share this moment as his most memorable.

Kahn, an eight-time Bundesliga winner who won the Champions League in 2002 with Bayern Munich even, revealed last year that the goal still makes him dizzy.