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The former Belgian defender Thomas Vermaelen a<\/strong>will support Arsenal<\/strong>his former club, in the Champions League final, but assures that the PSG <\/strong>that has built Luis Enrique<\/strong> has conquered him thanks to a coach who already fascinated him when he coached him on the bench FC Barcelona.<\/strong><\/p>\n “If you ask me who has been the best coach of my career, I would cite Luis Enrique among the greatest. I loved my time with him at Barcelona (2014-2016). He is a very honest and authentic technician.<\/strong>. “I’m happy that he’s achieving something great at PSG,” he said in an interview published by the DH Les Sports newspaper.<\/em><\/p>\n The former Belgian international, However, in the final he will support the gunners <\/em>of Mikel Arteta, as he has good memories of the club in which he played 150 games between 2009 and 2014,<\/strong> and that still welcomes him when he goes to the stadium. But he also loves PSG.<\/p>\n “Evidently I will support Arsenal in the final, but I must say that Paris has managed to win me over<\/strong>. At first I didn’t like that club at all that simply buys the best players without a real idea behind it.<\/strong>. But Luis has managed to build a team at PSG, with very talented young people. I enjoy watching them play<\/strong>. “It will be tough for Arsenal, but in a final anything is possible,” he commented.<\/p>\n Vermaelen, who He spent three active seasons with Arteta at Arsenal,<\/strong> I already thought then that the Spaniard would end up becoming a coach.<\/p>\n “I played three seasons with Mikel Arteta, although we have not maintained contact. He has managed to create a solid team, which defends together. He is a very good coach. Mikel was the type of player that everyone knew would end up being a coach.<\/strong>. Like Vincent Kompany,” he said.<\/p>\n The one who was also defender for Ajax, FC Barcelona and Roma, 40 years old and retired in 2022 after spending his last three years as a player for Japanese team Kobe, <\/strong>He celebrated that the team led by his former teammate has been proclaimed champion of the Premier League after 22 years of drought.<\/strong><\/p>\n “I don’t watch much football on television, but I have followed this. S<\/strong>I always look at what my old clubs are doing and I’m still a real Arsenal fan. Sometimes I still go to the stadium, although it’s rare. “They always welcome me well, and that’s nice,” he said.<\/p>\n “I’m really happy because we had to wait a long time to win the title again.”. I know how difficult it is to win the Premier League.<\/strong> I didn’t get it in my time. Luckily, at least we won the Cup in my last season,” he recalled about the 150 games that Vermaelen disputed with the gunners <\/em>between 2009 and 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The former Belgian defender Thomas Vermaelen awill support Arsenalhis former club, in the Champions League<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Praise for Arteta and Arsenal<\/h2>\n