This summer, we're featuring some of the players who have appeared in our academy Young Gun section of the match day programme in 2020/21. Next, we have left back, Joel Lopez. When Arsenal came calling, it was an opportunity that I just couldn’t turn down. Barcelona was all I’d ever known, but I knew straight away that this was the club for me. I loved growing up in Barcelona. As a kid, maybe five years old, I remember playing with my brother and dad in the park, and we’d spend hours practising passing, dribbling and skills. Anything really, as long as the ball was at my feet. We had a park just outside our apartment in Barcelona and it was really nice to grow up in an environment...
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