Arsenal skipper Martin Odegaard has revealed the most famous person in his phone contacts and it's fair to say he picked an absolute legend of the game.
Odegaard has been at Arsenal since 2021, joining the North London club initially on loan in January of that year from Spanish giants Real Madrid.
The Norway international joined the La Liga team from Stromsgodset in 2015 but he made fewer than a dozen appearances for the Spanish giants.
In fact, much of his time there was spent on loan away from the club, including at Dutch teams Heerenveen and Vitesse, as well as Real Sociedad before moving to the Emirates Stadium.
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Odegaard's move to Arsenal was made permanent in the summer of 2021, joining in a deal worth an initial €35 million.
In that time since moving to the Premier League, Odegaard has racked up 159 appearances and scored 35 goals for the club in all competitions, becoming a key player for Mikel Arteta in the heart of midfield.
His only piece of silverware so far with Arsenal has been the 2023 Community Shield victory over Manchester City, as the Gunners have emerged in the past two seasons as the nearest challengers to Pep Guardiola's side in the Premier League and have finished as runners-up in back-to-back seasons.
Odegaard is Arsenal captain after being handed the armband by Arteta ahead of the 2022/23 season, following the departures of both Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette from the Gunners.
The 25-year-old has also gone on to become a key player for his country, having received 61 caps for Norway since making his debut back in 2014, and has scored three goals in that time.
Odegaard was quizzed on a range of topics in a Q&A session conducted by TNT Sports after fans sent in their questions for the midfielder.
He named the one rule he has imposed on the Gunners dressing room since becoming captain is respecting one another, named Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk as the toughest player he has faced, and that Gunners forward and team-mate Kai Havertz is his best friend in football.
But when the conversation turned to who is the most famous phone contact he has is the legendary Zinedine Zidane.
The Frenchman both played for and managed Real Madrid across two spells, so Odegaard would have rubbed shoulders with the World Cup winner during his time at the Santiago Bernabeu.
As phone contacts go, picking Zizou is hard to beat.
Topics: Arsenal, Martin Odegaard, Mikel Arteta, Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane
John McDougall