cheap childrens football kits It was Christmas Eve, 2002, and for Rami Shaaban, everything was perfect.
Just six months before he had been sitting on the bench for Swedish first division side Djurgardens, but now he was part of Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal squad and had just kept clean sheets in the Champions League and the north London derby.
His mother, Tuula, had flown to England to celebrate his first Christmas in London - all that was left was to complete one final training sessionbefore the festivities could start.
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But in the space of a few seconds, everything changed.
“There was suddenly this big bang,“ Shaaban recalled, speaking exclusively to Goal. “It sounded like a shin pad had broken or something.”
But it wasn’t a shin pad that had snapped, jude bellingham shirt it was Shaaban’s right leg. He had fractured both the tibia and fibula bones and his season was over.