Arsenal name new captain ahead of 2022/23 season

Arsenal have named their new skipper with 23-year-old midfielder now captaining membership and nation

Martin Odegaard has been named Arsenal’s new captain forward of the brand new 2022/23 season.

Odegaard joined Arsenal completely final season from Actual Madrid after an preliminary 6-month mortgage spell on the membership.

He’s highly-rated by supervisor Mikel Arteta and was one of many group’s greatest gamers final season.

Odegaard was named skipper of the Norwegian nationwide group in March 2021 on the age of twenty-two.

A child star in his native, Norway, he made his first look for the nationwide group at 15 and has had a topsy-turvy profession earlier than discovering a house in Arsenal.

He was loaned out a number of occasions by Actual Madrid, having joined the group at 16.

Odegaard skippered Arsenal final season for big spells, particularly after the exit of Pierre Emerick Aubameyang and the dropping of Alexandre Lacazette final season.

What does Odegaard carry as Arsenal captain?

A level-headed, modern-day inventive midfielder, Odegaard is predicted to be a much less vocal chief within the group, however one whose management qualities are nonetheless boldly evident.

He’s been seen prior to now usually pointing passing channels and routes to teammates throughout video games and is one who all the time needs to get entangled in sport play.

His earlier coaches and the present Arsenal teaching crew led by Mikel Arteta respect him for his data of the sport and his brilliance off the pitch.

“He definitely has all of the qualities to do this, completely,” Arteta stated of the choice of Odegaard turning into captain in February.

“Speaking to his nationwide group coach and the way extremely they communicate of him. He walks via the hall and all people loves him.

“He’s such a pleasant, humble man and he leads with the way in which he’s. It is vitally pure for him and that can come.”

Former Arsenal captain, Granit Xhaka additionally had good issues to say concerning the Norwegian and described him as the way forward for the membership.

“He’s the way forward for this membership. He’s already captain when Alexandre Lacazette doesn’t play. He will be very happy with himself,” Xhaka advised TV2.

“You possibly can see how far he has are available in his head, mentally. He’s very younger, solely 23, however in how he behaves and is on the sphere, he appears to be like like he’s 30. It appears to be like like he has already performed 500 or 600 video games.

“He can positively grow to be Arsenal captain. He has the DNA in him. He works as exhausting daily as if he have been in a combat. He does lots of further work. He’s humble. Everybody within the dressing room listens to him. Why not?

“He’s very humble, he’s quiet as an individual, he’s not somebody who talks loads, and he doesn’t speak very loudly. However when he says one thing, the message comes very clearly to us gamers. That’s the important thing. It makes him very particular.”