The Arsenal Blog

Arsenal’s 19-year-old star Luke Freeman is ecstatic about the chance his manager Arsene Wenger offered him upon his call-up to Arsenal’s first team and thinks that this will help launch his career. The striker had a brilliant start to the season with Arsenal’s second-string team scoring 5 goals in 9 games so far this season.

These performances helped the Englishman get noticed by Wenger who called him up to the first team for a few training sessions. The striker offered a statement for Arsenal’s official website which read:

“It’s great, you can tell the standard is a lot higher than playing with the Reserves or the youth team,”  ...........Read more

Arsenal’s first choice goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny declared that it would be a dream come true for him to surpass his father’s call-ups for the senior Polish national squad. Szczesny senior, Maciej Szczęsny got 7 appearances for the Polish national squad between 1991 and 1996, and now the junior is after his father’s record.

Arsenal’s goalkeeper got his first call-up to the national squad in 2009 for a series of friendly games against Romania and Canada, and he made his first appearance in the second game coming in as a second half substitute. Since then Wojciech managed to become Arsenal’s first choice goalkeeper and he gathered 6 appearances for Poland’s national team.  ...........Read more