The making of Gabriel: How a once homesick Brazilian teenager became Arsenal’s defensive rock
Early in 2019, while working on his squad at Chapecoense, Claudinei Oliveira, the club’s head coach, picked up his phone and gave a call to a former protégé.
“Gabriel Magalhaes wasn’t playing much with Lille, so I wanted to check if he would like to join me,” he recalls. Indeed, during the first half of the 2018-19 campaign in France, the Brazilian centre-back had made only two appearances………………………..Read More