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Alex Iwobi vividly remembers the day: Friday, August 8, 2019.
The transformative moment? A late, unexpected move for the then 23-year-old on transfer deadline day from his boyhood club of Arsenal to Premier League side Everton.
The day, that as he says, he “became a man.”
“It happened so fast,” Iwobi tells CNN Sports. “It was a decision that was almost instant.”
No longer a “London boy,” now he was to be molded by the culture, language and soccer of northern England.
It was time to embrace the unknown.
“I’m…