Pendukung Setia Kejar Bus Arsenal Sejauh 10 Km!
Super-fan Chased the Arsenal Team Bus for 5 Miles!
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
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SEBERAPA jauh Anda sanggup menemui idola Anda? Bagi Seorang fans setia Arsenal, jawabannya adalah lima mil (hampir 11 km) hanya dalam waktu 15 menit.
Dalam rangkaian tur Asia Arsenal di Hanoi, ketika skuad ini singgah di One Pillar Pagoda, bus yang mereka tumpangi dikejar oleh beberapa fans yang ingin melihat dari dekat para pemain The Gunners
dalam rangkaian kunjungan di Vietnam saat singgah kuil Budha bersejarah.
Banyak yang mencoba menembus keramaian lalu lintas yang dipadati sepeda, tapi ulah seorang fans mencuri perhatian skuad saat ia berlari mengejar bus bahkan hingga sejajar dengan bus, terus berlari hingga menabrak beberapa pohon dan tiang lampu. Di dalam bus pun skuad Arsenal menyanyikan: "Kontrak dia, kontrak dia..." Seorang pemain berseloroh: "Dia lebih bugar daripada Aaron Ramsey!"
Striker Olivier Giroud merekam aksi lari ´jarak menengah´ itu melalui ponselnya lalu di-upload ke laman Facebook-nya, dia mengklaim pendukung tadi telah mengikuti bus selama 15 menit.
Skuad Arsenal terkesan dengan ulahnya lalu bersorak untuk segera ´mengontraknya´, dengan menaikkan ke dalam bus, sang pendukung setia Arsenal akhirnya diijinkan naik ke bus, yang langsung disambut oleh para pemain.
Wojciech Szczesny, pun menjadi ´host´ dadakan yang menceritakan kisah dari video tersebut di laman Arsenal, yang mengungkap kekaguman skuad terhadap kenekatan maupun kemampuan fisiknya.
Kiper ini tidak menutupi kekagumannya pada fisik sang fan yang memiliki perut ´six-pack.´
Setelah bertemu seluruh pemain, sang fan menyapa dan berbincang lalu berpose dengan manajer Arsene Wenger dan mendapat bonus jersey yang dihiasi tanda tangan bos Arsenal.
Para pendukung berharap Wenger dapat meraih pemain baru di bursa transfer sebelum liga dimulai untuk mengakhiri masa delapan musim tanpa gelar, seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Arsenal membuka tur Asia mereka dengan kemenangan 7-0 atas Indonesia XI.
Klub asal London utara ini akan melanjutkan perjalanan ke Jepang untuk menghadapi Nagoya Grampus pada 22 Juli dan Urawa Red Diamonds empat hari kemudian, sebelum mengakhiri tur Asia mereka.
HOW far would you go to meet your heroes? For one Arsenal fan, the answer is a few miles in just over 15 minutes.
As Arsenal continued their Asia Tour in Hanoi, the team took some time off to visit the One Pillar Pagoda and naturally were chased by many local fans hoping to catch a rare glimpse of the Gunners in person as they ventured across Vietnam on their team bus to the historic Buddhist temple.
Many tried to dart in and out of traffic on bikes, but it was one man who caught the squad’s undivided attention as he impressively ran alongside the bus, keeping pace despite bumping into a few trees and lampposts. And the bus was soon full of chants from the Arsenal team singing: ´Sign him up, sign him up.´ One player is heard to joke: ´He´s fitter than Aaron Ramsey!´
Striker Olivier Giroud filmed the run on his phone before uploading it on to his Facebook page where he claimed the fan had followed the bus for 15 minutes.
So impressed were the Arsenal squad that cheers of ‘sign him up’ soon filled the bus, before the fan eventually jumped on to the back of a bike near the end of his pursuit, to cheers from the Arsenal players.
Wojciech Szczesny, whop helped narrate the video on the Arsenal website, claimed how the team were impressed with the physique of the fan.
The keeper admitted that even the finely tuned Premier League athletes were jealous of the supporter´s ´unbelievable six-pack.´
After seeing the players, the fan completed his meet and greet by posing for a picture with manager Arsene Wenger and getting his shirt signed by the Arsenal boss.
Fans will hope that won´t be Wenger´s last signing of the summer as the Gunners aim to end an eight-year trophy drought next term.
Arsenal opened up their Asia tour with a 7-0 win over the Indonesia XI.
The north London side then travel to Japan where they will face Nagoya Grampus on July 22 and Urawa Red Diamonds four days later to complete their Asia tour.
