Tag: captains

Arsenal: Martin Odegaard new role explained by Mikel Arteta after captain’s Champions League winner at Napoli | Football News
9 September 2026 Off

Arsenal: Martin Odegaard new role explained by Mikel Arteta after captain’s Champions League winner at Napoli | Football News

By Total Football News

Martin Odegaard is a player transformed at the start of this season – and Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta puts his captain’s impressive form down to fitness and new positioning.

Odegaard was the match-winner again for Arsenal on Wednesday, thumping in the only goal of the game in the Champions League victory at Napoli.

That hit followed his clinching strike against Chelsea in the Premier League on Sunday and takes his

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Ethan Ampadu: Leeds United ask for captain’s privacy to be respected
20 May 2025 Off

Ethan Ampadu: Leeds United ask for captain’s privacy to be respected

By Total Football News

Leeds United have said captain Ethan Ampadu “had no responsibility” for a photo posted on social media of his young son wearing a Galatasaray shirt.

Two Leeds fans, Kevin Speight and Christopher Loftus, were stabbed to death in Istanbul on the eve of the Uefa Cup semi-final match between Leeds and Galatasaray in 2000.

The Championship title winners said in a statement that the Wales international had separated from the

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