So Romantic! Enyimba football star proposes to his girlfriend on the pitch (Photos)

Aww! Who says Nigerians aren't romantic? Well, Daniel Essien Etor is here to prove y'all wrong. Etor a Enyimba Football Club’s forward, dramatically proposed to his girlfriend.

The footballer proposed to his girlfriend, Simi Silas at the centre of the pitch of the Area 3 Sports Complex in Abuja at the end of a match in memory of his late father on Monday.

With his teammates from Enyimba – Chinedu Udoji, Emmanuel Anyanwu, Razak Aliyu, Moses Ocheje, Kelly Kester – watching on, Etor knelt down before asking the pretty model and geography graduate of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria for her hand in marriage.

“I said yes,” said Etor’s Adamawa State-born girlfriend. “I love him. I am so happy, I don’t even know what to say.

“We became friends four years ago and I knew this day will come but I did not know it will be here. It was shocking!”

 

Etor praised his fiancée.

He said: “She has been my support from day one, my backbone.

“She understands me and prays for me. I proposed on the day I remembered the first year of my father’s death. It was something I needed to do.”