Arsenal have no shortage of players at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
The likes of William Saliba (France), Gabriel Martinelli and Gabriel Jesus (Brazil), Aaron Ramsdale, Ben White and Bukayo Saka (England) will all be hoping to return to the Emirates in December with the biggest honour in football under their belt.
They’re aiming to emulate some legendary Arsenal players that won the World Cup while representing the club. Here are the Gunners’ six World Cup-winning players.
Emmanuel Petit
The midfielder had reunited with his old boss at Monaco, Arsene Wenger, in the summer of 1997.
Petit then went on to enjoy the best year of his career, starring as a key player in the Gunners’ brilliant Premier League and FA Cup double before lifting the World Cup with Les Bleus at the end of the campaign.
“I have long experience. I’ve known players who’ve won the World Cup who in November had no chance to go to the World Cup,” recalled Arsene Wenger in 2018.
“I remember Petit in 1998, he made it in March, April, May, and was one of main players at the World Cup.”
That’s certainly one way of putting it, with Petit scoring France’s third goal of their 3-0 win in the final against Brazil one of the iconic images of that World Cup.
⏩ 13 seconds is all it took between Christophe Dugarry receiving the ball inside @FrenchTeam‘s box & Emmanuel Petit scoring from inside Brazil’s. A tasty goal to put the icing on the cake 🍰
🇫🇷 #WorldCup #OnThisDay 🏆 pic.twitter.com/kldSz5km8M
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) July 12, 2020
Patrick Vieira
Petit was one of two Gunners to lift the World Cup on home soil in 1998.
Vieira arrived at Highbury a year earlier than Petit, and actually predated Wenger by a couple of months – although he always knew that his compatriot would follow, and has admitted that was the factor in him joining.
Unlike Petit, Vieira wasn’t a guaranteed starter for France at the World Cup. He came on for the final 15 minutes of the final against Brazil, replacing Youri Djorkaeff to help see out their lead following the dismissal of Marcel Desailly.
Cesc Fabregas
La Masia academy graduate Fabregas arrived at Arsenal as a teenager, making his Gunners debut as a 16-year-old back in 2003.
By 2010 he’d developed into one of the world’s best midfielders, a claim he underlined by assisting Andres Iniesta’s iconic winning goal in the 2010 World Cup final against the Netherlands.
During Spain’s celebrations, he was…
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