Former captain of Arsenal Football Club, Cesc Fabregas, has revealed he once provoked Nigeria’s Nwankwo Kanu during their time at the club.
The Spanish midfielder who now plays for Monaco signed for Arsenal as a teenager from Barcelona in 2003. Though he was highly rated by the club’s manager, Arsene Wenger at that time, he was not known by majority of the club’s senior players.
Fabregas revealed that he provoked Kanu when he tackled him while trying to impress the manager and his teammates during his first training at the club.
While talking to Thierry Henry during an Instagram live video session, Fabregas said: “My first training when I joined Arsenal, I was all in my head trying to impress and I made a tackle on Kanu and he was so upset with me.
“When you’re young, sometimes you don’t think; you just want to go there and prove yourself without realising that you’re playing alongside World Cup winners. At that moment you just want to do your best and most times, the passion gets the best out of you,”
Fabregas later became fans favourite, captain and club legend at Arsenal. He scored 57 goals in 304 appearances for the North London club.
