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A FORMER Arsenal star used to dance naked in front of team-mates while he was at the club.The fan favourite also dressed up as a tiger in order to scare people at a team-mate’s party.
The defender enjoyed a seven-year spell with ArsenalCredit: Getty Images – Getty
Emmanuel Eboue was a cult hero due to his antics at ArsenalCredit: AFP
The defender’s antics made him a hero among the Arsenal faithful during his seven-year spell with the club.
And he is, of course, the one and only Emmanuel Eboue.
The Ivorian was known to be a prankster among the Gunners’ squad.
This included dancing nude in the team’s changing room, according to Andrey Arshavin.
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Eboue made 132 appearances for the club in the Premier League, scoring four goals.
He played with many of the club’s stars, including Cesc Fabregas, Thierry Henry and Gilberto Silva.
He once turned up at the latter’s party dressed up as a tiger in order to scare the guests.
He was not loved by all of the club’s supporters as his defending at times could be questionable.
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But many were very vocal of their support for him as they chanted: “You’ve only come to see Eboue”.
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The right-back continued his antics on the international stage as well.
In one game for the Ivory Coast, Eboue pretended to understand Korean while the team’s manager gave instructions to his player.
Eboue could be seen nodding along, despite not speaking a word of the language.
In an interview with The Telegraph, he tried to explain what was going on.
He said: “That time, I honestly don’t know what was going on in my head at the time.
“But people aren’t going to forget about it.
“When their coach called his captain over, I went close to him, nodded and said, ‘OK, no problem, I understand, yeah?’
“He said to me, ‘You speak Korean?’ I said, ‘No, but I understand a little bit’ and he was laughing.
Eboue was often joking around in his playing careerCredit: AP:Associated Press
“It was funny, it was our last game so we were at the airport the next day with the Korean players and one of them came over to me and said, ‘Eboue, you speak my language?’ I said, ‘Yeah’.
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“So he says, ‘OK, how do you say ‘good morning’ in Korean?
“So I shout, ‘Yang!!!’ and he literally fell on the floor laughing.” More

A FORMER Arsenal and Fulham defender looks completely unrecognisable dressed as Baywatch star David Hasselhoff.The retired right back, now 40, claimed to be a massive fan of the American actor.

He was often spotted riding around London on his fold-up bicycle during his time in the Premier League.
As a player, he also took part in multiple charity campaigns and was praised by Fulham for it when he left the club permanently in 2009.
He played 125 times for the Cottagers in the Premier League, scoring two goals.
One of his strikes that came against Chelsea just so happened the Premier League’s 15,000th goal.
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He started his career in Germany with Schalke before moving to England.
At Arsenal, he won two FA Youth cups but never made the leap to the Gunners’ first team.
Some fans have commented on the picture on social media as one said: “90s footballer photoshoots, the gift that keeps on giving.”
A second added: “Typical L.A. weather in the background.”
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He has widely been considered as one of the cult heroes in the Premier League.
And it is, of course, Moritz Volz dressed up as the Baywatch star.
He hung up his boots for the last time in 2015 after a three-year stint with 1860 Munich.
Voltz was last at Turkish giants Galatasaray, working as the club’s assistant coach.
Moritz Volz during his time at FulhamCredit: AP:Associated Press More

ARSENAL captain Martin Odegaard has declared there are no limits to what the club can achieve with Mikel Arteta as manager – and revealed why he joined the club.The Norwegian international, 24, has forged an unbreakable bond with the boss he describes as: “Passionate, intense and a bit crazy.”
Martin Odegaard says there’s no limits to Arsenal’s success under Mikel ArtetaCredit: Getty
The Spaniard has the Gunners sitting pretty at the top of the Premier LeagueCredit: EPA
And he reveals that everything he was promised when he first joined the club from Real Madrid has come true.
With Arsenal currently sitting five points clear at the top of the Premier League, Odegaard says: “I challenge anyone to come away from a meeting with Mikel Arteta and not believe everything he tells you.
“When he speaks to you, you understand that whatever he says will happen, will happen.
“He’s next level. He’s passionate, he’s intense and sometimes, yeah, he’s a bit crazy.
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“So if there is anyone who still doesn’t believe in this Arsenal team, take it from me that there are no limits to what we can achieve. No-one can tell me otherwise.”
Odegaard was first lured to Arsenal by Arteta on loan from Real Madrid before making his move permanent in a £30million deal in the summer of 2021.
And even though Arteta was fighting for his job at the time, he was still able to convince Odegaard that his future was in North London.
Speaking to The Players’ Tribune, Odegaard recalls: “I spoke to Mikel on a Zoom call and he told me all about the project.
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“Arsenal were not doing well at the time. They were way down in like 15th in the table.
“But he told me his plan, everything he was building towards and he knew exactly what he needed to change at the club.
“He told me all about these amazing young players in the squad – Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Emile Smith Rowe – and he explained how I was going to fit in and improve.
“I got this strong feeling that he was onto something really special. And even when we finished eighth at the end of my first season here, no-one at the club lost faith in what we were doing.
“It was all part of the plan and though we’re in the title race now there is still a long way to go and no one is thinking about May yet.”
Odegaard’s love for Arsenal as a teen may also have played a role in the move.
The midfield maestro has admitted that he’d always play with Arsenal on video game franchise FIFA.
He said: “I’ve always had this weird connection to Arsenal.
“It started long before I signed. I don’t even really know how to explain it, except with one little story.
“I’ve never been that much into video games. I am of that generation that always played outside, but the one exception was FIFA.
“I mostly played Career Mode. You know, where you get to be the manager?
“The club I always chose to manage was Arsenal. They were my FIFA team.
“Growing up in Norway, I watched a lot of Premier League and I just had this good feeling about Arsenal. I’d seen clips of Thierry Henry and the Invincibles.
“I knew the club had a history of developing playmakers like Cesc Fabregas, Samir Nasri, Mesut Ozil — really smart, technical players, who were good on the ball and played the difficult passes. My kind of players. 
“As I got older, around the 2015 edition, I started actually appearing in FIFA.
“I didn’t look much like me at first. I think I was like a 67 overall, but I was actually in the game and it was a big deal.
“So, naturally, one of the first things I did when I was pretending to be Arsene Wenger on Career Mode was to buy myself.
“Me and Arsenal. It just seemed like a good match in my head. 
“That special connection turned into a reality when I signed here two years ago. It was a decision that changed my life around. I come into training smiling every day.
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“But my story is definitely not Career Mode. This has been a very different journey to how I imagined it on FIFA.
“In real life, you can’t just select where you want to go and everything will be perfect.”
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