A mixed group of Arsenal youngsters flew out to Switzerland this afternoon, to take part in a mini-tournament against German Champions Bayern Munich.
The boys were spotted an by eagle eyed member of The Gooner Forum, who snapped the above picture. Liam Brady and Roy Massesy were in attendance, and apparently Steve Gatting were also with the travelling squad. Most of the lads will feature in next seasons Nike Cup, as well as the Under 16 side.
Free-scoring striker Zak Ansah (far right) will be hoping to fire Arsenal to victory, after another hugely impressive campaign last year. He is certainly one, amongst others to watch out for during the coming season.
A huge thanks to our friends over at The Gooner Forum for relaying this information, and for taking the picture. Good luck to the young Gunners during the tournament.
Article By – J.Sanderson
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Benik
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good luck boys, do it for the Herd e.i.e.
The third from right black kid (short looking) goes to my school and I’ve played against him. He is a couple years younger than me though.
No problem TGF, thanking you for allowing us use.
Ian what is his name mate?
I honestly can’t remember. Whenever I have played with him i just call him “Thierry” because he plays for Arsenal lol.
bahaha poor gaffer got his head cut out
— thatgooner
Thank god. Didnt want me bomb head all over the net : )
So how old are these boys? They look very young. Good luck kids!
Ansah knows.
Lou they were the under 16s, Most of them are 14/15 years old mate
Lou, the guy that goes to my school is 13ish, dunno about the rest.
Does anyone know what is going to happen to abu ogogo next season will he be kept, loaned out or released. i hope he stays from the games i went to last season he looks a very good utility player
Does anyone know what is going to happen to abu ogogo next season will he be kept, loaned out or released from the games i went to last season he looked a very good utility player
hmm w8 bayern munich full team? or under 16’s?
here are the interview oh HLEB
http://news.tut.by/sport/111895.html
below is translated
http://le-grove.co.uk/2008/06/27/hleb-exclusive-we-have-news/
TrinderGooner are you serious mate?
trinder, do you really think arsenal would subject their u16’s (which includes 13 and 14 year olds) to that kind of physical abuse? of course it’s against opposition of similar age.
Maybe they would be the first team of Bayern as half of there team are playing spain on sunday in the final of the euros
Maybe he misunderstood what team is it, I find that very hard to believe though…
lol sorry i didnt know i 4got about the euro’s and also i didnt think about the ages…and i thought half of reserve team…sorry guys just realised how stupid i looked then
Abu Ogogo looks set to be released, we have to make room for the fresh new wave of prospects.
Glad the little misunderstanding about the team have been sorted out.
They are a real mixture of kids by the looks of things, 15-14-13
Gaffer meets all the cool people
J, aren’t they a bit young for the internet treatment? Sorry to bring up this old debate, but some of these look no older than 12.
Jamie i know that Zack Ansah is one of the supposed two technicaly gifted 14 year old with apparantly nothing to learn according to Arsene Wenger, but do you have any idea who the other one is because i have heard at least 3 different names mentioned on other Arsenal blogs
Benik Afobe is the other one.
What happen to the youngsters who had nothing to learn being wilshere and afobe
A friend of mine, 15, (I live in South Africa) plays for Ajax Cape Town and he recently went to play in a tournament in Amsterdam and he also played vs Bayern Munich.
J, would you happen to know if Arsenal had a team involved?
He also played against Man Utd and said they were shit.
I would just like to say that I love this website and JS sounds like a really top bloke and his articles are very good.
So keep the good work up J
Just a randome question here. if alisher usmanov took over arsenal, and then died in a couple of months, wouldnt that be a really bad position for arsenal to be in? And what would arsenal do then? PLEASE ANSWER ANYONE. THNKX
Hi nice website but do u remba arsenal being linked with ramon brazilian kaka instead we bought denilson. Having seen him play and there are clips of him in youtube this guy is different class. He should be playing at a higher level and we shuld have bought him instead of denilson-too inury prone
UntouchableH: Arsenal will be in a tough position but then Stan Kroenke will become the potential owner.
J do you know if the rumours about AFC signing Schweinsteiger are true?
if its a mini tournament then there must be more teams and j plz plz plz tell me which teams were in the atlanta cup i always ask but no one reply’s
Im not sure about Schweinsteiger, but he is the captain of Bayern Munich i believe? so cant see why we would get him.
Arsenal – im not sure, you would have to ask GAFFER from TGF, because he was there and i wasn’t.
As for the list of teams there was loads, Chelsea were there, Spartak Moscow, and a few others. If i get the full list, i will mail you it.
Why is Zak Ansah the only one with initials on his top?
wats the score of the game no updates on it since?
Jarrrod – because the other players have the initials engraved into their sponge heads instead.
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