Ehe 2022 is a key year for Marcelo Flores. The Arsenal footballer is clear about his goals: debut in the Arsenal first team and go to the World Cup in Qatar.
“I’ve been saying for a long time that I want to debut as a professional before I turn 19, either at the Arsenal or elsewhere on loan or permanent sale. He wanted to go to the World Cup before he was 19, but my birthday is in October, so it will be a month later, but I want to be in a team that goes to the World Cup and have my debut with Arsenal before“, declared in an interview for football.london.
for now, the player has played two friendly matches with the Mexican national teammaking his debut against Chile and playing last week’s friendly against Guatemala, but he can still choose to play with Canada, his native country, or with England, where he has citizenship having arrived on the island a few years ago.
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Flores has already been called up once by Mikel Arteta to Arsenal’s first team, something that took him by surprise. “It was the day before the match against Manchester City, I was preparing to play with the under 23 in the Emirates. At the last minute, they called me to say that I would be on the bench with the first team. It was a great moment for my family. It was a great experience”.
The player has also drawn attention for the acrobatic way in which he celebrates his goals, the result of training sessions he did with his school friends. “Six years ago I moved and when I played for Ipswich, I trained on my own, but I also my school friends were gymnasts and they used to do parkour and things like that, I hung out with them and did it too. I could always do turns and stuff, but while I was doing football and agility work, also doing parkour helped me a lot. I stopped doing it after going pro, but I’m trying to show a bit here.”
