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Podolski on playing at 40 and his love for Arsenal

More than 10 years after leaving Arsenal, with an FA Cup and 82 appearances to his name, Lukas Podolski is still playing top-flight football in Europe.

Now aged 40, the German forward features for Gornik Zabrze, currently setting the pace at the top of the Polish Ekstraklasa. It’s the latest stop on an incredible career that started at his hometown club Cologne and took in three seasons at Bayern Munich before coming to Arsenal in the summer of 2012.

He scored 16 goals in his debut season, and lifted the FA Cup at the end of his second.