Emile Smith Rowe admits that Arsenal 's first goal dominated the World Cup with England after the announcement of his arrival

Arsenal sensation Emile Smith Rowe admitted that scoring a wonderful goal to open his account for the club felt better than winning the Under-17 World Cup with England.

The 17-year-old scored his first goal for Arsenal Atletico Madrid beat Atout Madrid in the Champions Cup on Thursday, during a penalty shoot-out. The teenager dribbled his head and snapped a nice shot of the Premier League head after Luciano Vietto's opening

. Celebrating his 18th birthday on Saturday, the Croydon-born boy likened his hit to success that he tasted with the under-17 British in October last year, and said the two were not the best. same level.

"It must be that," said Rowe Smith. "My first goal for Arsenal …

" It's really a start [birthday] present, it's just a dream come true. I still can not believe it happened.

"I came on tour thinking that I wanted to impress the manager and get it done as well as possible, but getting such a goal is so surreal.It's crazy, I can not really explain it. – my head is everywhere. "

A new coach of Arsenal, Unai Emery, was the subject of a redesign this summer after replacing Arsene Wenger, who had already signed five signatures. goalkeeper Bernd Leno, defensemen Stephen Lichtsteiner and Sokratis Papastathopoulos and midfielders Lucas Torreira and Matteo Guendouzi.

But he also looked at the club's youth system for reinforcements, and as part of that, Rowe Smith received the late call to join the team during their pre-tour. -Season from Singapore.

Emery said: has grown up in the academy and we must give young players the chance to work for us and play games like today. "

With this in mind, the Spanish manager left him late before deciding to take Rowe Smith on tour

"I only discovered the day before the team departed that I was coming with them, "he added. "We had a training session on Saturday and the man from the troop came to see me right away and said," Here is your suitcase, you are traveling. "

" Since that day, I've been so happy and enjoyed

"All the players were so hospitable, I know some young boys, I played a lot with them, but being with the older players and being so hospitable, that's great."

"I trained with the senior team before, but that's my only real chance I've had until here. [Alexandre] Lacazette and [Pierre-Emerick] Aubameyang m & # 39; s looked, they are so funny and so welcoming. "

Arsenal completes his tour against Paris Saint-Germain on Saturday, before completing his pre-season plan against Chelsea in Dublin on August 1 and Lazio in Stockholm three days later.

But despite the story of Arsenal Rowe Smith revealed that he would refuse any opportunity to leave the club temporarily in order to put pressure on him to get first team opportunities.

"My long-term goal is to be in the first team all the time, but this season is trying to win as much time as possible in the Europa League and in the Cups, and I hope to make my debut in the Premier League .. like to keep my feet on the ground and keep my head down and work hard.If I keep doing this, I do not think the attention will come to me. I just have to keep working hard. "

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