Mikel Arteta

Mikel Arteta says some of his happiest days were at Barca's La Masia academy · Pepe Reina, also at La Masia, recalls Arteta throwing ice cubes over his coach ...

'Above all, Guardiola and Arteta have been steeped in the knowledge of the modern Barca playing style. It was because of La Masia links that Guardiola had kept in touch with Arteta and marked him down as a potential assistant. Xavi was two years ahead of Arteta in the Barca youth system, which will explain why Arteta's career in central midfield at the Camp Nou never got beyond friendly games for the first team. Both Guardiola, who was the pioneer in first going on to become a coach, and then later on Arteta.' What he is achieving now has the potential to surpass his days as student. It is more to emphasise that those four years he spent at Barcelona will prove to be decisive should Arsenal do what no one believed they could at the start of the season and win the Premier League. He was fitness coach for Barca from 1994 to 2014, so worked with Guardiola all through the second edition of the Dream Team, the one with Lionel Messi, Xavi and Andres Iniesta at its heart, which won two Champions League trophies between 2008 and 2012. 'Many players have gone through La Masia, and among that number, lots have gone on to become coaches and managers. 'And my only purpose at that moment when I was young was one day to be a professional footballer and to play for Barca. And so he and a group of teenagers gathered above the entrance and decided to lob ice cubes at any unfortunate soul who happened to be entering. In that team was a midfielder written off by youth team coaches as a skinny runt but elevated by Cruyff to be its heart, Pep Guardiola. 'It's one of the best periods in my life for sure with the people that we shared those moments.'

The Premier League leaders head to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Sunday afternoon in search of their first victory at the new home of their neighbours. It is ...

Arsenal are top of the Premier League, have only dropped points in three matches this season and are five-points clear of Manchester City ahead of their ...

You have to go back to March 2014 for the Gunners’ last league win at Spurs, and Arteta said: “There is for sure something. Asked what the biggest single change has been in the last year, he added: “We win more games, which is the most important thing. There are things we do together that will be resting in my brain for the rest of my life and probably it’s the same for them as well. I feel so grateful and very lucky to be in the position I am. “Some of the things we’ve done together, probably I’m never going to be able to do them with any other team and any other group. A victory at Spurs would only add to the warm, fuzzy feeling that is enveloping the Gunners.

Mikel Arteta has urged Arsenal to prove they have learned the lessons of last season's disastrous defeat at Tottenham when the Premier League leaders visit ...

Arsenal lost the encounter 3-0 and the derby defeat ultimately cost Arteta and his men a Champions League spot, as they finished 5th behind Spurs By.

The defeat ultimately cost Arteta’s men a Champions League spot, as they eventually finished fifth behind Spurs. The Gunners prior to the game were on course to take the 4th spot in the Premier League but they capitulated and suffered a 3-0 defeat at the hands of their arch-rivals. Arsenal lost the encounter 3-0 and the derby defeat ultimately cost Arteta and his men a Champions League spot, as they finished 5th behind Spurs

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta admits he has been trying to work out why there are so few away wins in the recent history of the north London derby.

“We win more games, which is the most important thing. I have been through a few of them, trying to understand why that happens, in the last few days. There’s a lot of things to remember in that pathway. “I think the demands have changed as well. “At the end it’s about the people around you. “I feel so grateful and I feel very lucky to be in the position I am.

Mikel Arteta is making memories at Arsenal he says he will never forget as he saluted the Gunners' "incredible dressing room" in the lead-up to the North ...

"We deserve to win in the games that we have won and probably that's the most relevant thing." "And that's why we always have to be evolving and trying to be ahead of what is coming, to give to the players and the rest of the staff what is going to make everything click to be more efficient and to win more games." "It's just an incredible dressing room.

Mikel Arteta bai manta da shi sosai ba kamar yadda Pepe Reina yake yi. Labarin da tsohon golan Liverpool ya ba da labari shine Arteta ya gundura wata rana ...

Shekaru goma a gaban Xavi shine Guardiola, wanda Xavi zai maye gurbinsa kuma zai kasance a zuciyar babbar kungiyar da Guardiola ya horar. Ba za mu iya ba da tabbacin cewa ya yi daidai ba. Abin da yake cim ma a yanzu yana da damar da zai wuce kwanakinsa na dalibi. A ranar Juma’a, Arteta yana sake farfado da waɗannan ra’ayoyin da farin cikin kuruciyarsa. Kuma a yanzu haka ne kwatsam su ne kociyoyin da suka fi shahara da ayyukan da suke yi,’ in ji Sierullo. Dukansu Guardiola, wanda shine majagaba da farko ya fara zama koci, sannan kuma a kan Arteta.’ ‘Yan wasa da yawa sun bi ta La Masia, kuma daga cikin adadin, kuri’a sun ci gaba da zama koci da manaja. ‘Yan wasan tare da Cruyff a waccan bangaren Michels sun zama kociyoyin farko na matasa a La Masia. Arteta ya ce “Ina soyayya da Kungiyar Mafarki lokacin da Johan Cruyff ya kasance manajan,” in ji Arteta. “La Masia shine duk abin da Johan Cruyff ya bar mana,” in ji Sierul-lo. Abin ban mamaki a wannan gasar kambun a halin yanzu shi ne, Manchester City ta Guardiola ita ce kungiyar da ta fi iya karyata mafarkin Arteta, rashin nasarar da Manchester United ta yi a jiya. Ba ku samun kofuna don cin nasara a farkon kakar wasa ta bana, amma wannan ya wuce duk wani abin da ake tsammani kafin kakar wasa.