Luton have named 16-year-old schoolboy Christian Chigozie, who will take his GCSEs in the summer, on the bench for the Premier League game against Arsenal at the Emirates.

• Chigozie is the youngest participant to be a part of Luton's Premier League squad
• The teenager began the marketing campaign enjoying for the membership's under-16 workforce
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Sixteen-year-old defender Christian Chigozie might full a shocking stand up the soccer ladder after being included in Luton's squad for his or her Premier League conflict in opposition to Arsenal.

Chigozie began the marketing campaign enjoying for the Hatters' Below-16s, however featured frequently for the older age teams, together with the U18s and U21s.

The Luton-born teenager attends a faculty subsequent door to the coaching floor and can sit his GCSEs this summer season.

In line with the BBC, the membership needed to ask his faculty for permission to skip faculty with a purpose to prepare with the primary workforce final week.

After the squad information was introduced on Wednesday, the Hatters despatched the defender a congratulatory message highlighting his historic achievement.

“Congratulations to 16-year-old centre-half and Luton schoolboy Christian Chigozie, who’s the youngest hatter on our bench in [Premier League]” message from Luton read on X, earlier Twitter.

Rob Edwards' facet might be hoping to resurrect their fading survival hopes after seeing Nottingham Forest transfer three factors away from them with a win over Fulham on Tuesday night time.

The Hatters narrowly edged out Arteta's facet within the reverse fixture, however ultimately fell to Declan Rice's finish to go down 4-3.