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05th Jun 2016

Arsenal’s Gabriel not understanding the concept of fancy dress is pure gold

This is amazing

Richard Beech

Footballers aren’t required to have extensive general knowledge, as long as they can perform on the pitch, it doesn’t really matter if they could win on an episode of Eggheads.

But… surely everyone knows what fancy dress is, right? Surely…

Not Gabriel, apparently. And a video of David Ospina trying to explain the concept to him is, in a very weird way, actually quite adorable.

The footage was shot for Arsenal’s YouTube channel, with the pair communicating in Spanish.

It starts with Ospina asking Gabriel what he went dressed as to his last fancy dress party:

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Glad we got there in the end.

You can watch the full video here:

The FootballJOE quiz: Were you paying attention? – episode 10