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.