‍ These INCREDIBLE ANECDOTES about the career of Hatem Ben Arfa Very qu…

‍ 🚨 These INCREDIBLE ANECDOTES about the career of Hatem Ben Arfa 😭🇫🇷
👉 Very quickly recognised in Lyon as a teenager, he’s stopped by two girls at McDonald’s and replies:
“Sorry, Hatem is my twin brother — my name is Sofiane…”
👉 One day, Juninho Pernambucano asks him to help pick up the kit with the other youngsters and Hatem replies: “You’re just a free-kick taker, you don’t give me orders.” 😳
👉 In Marseille, teammates were surprised to see him carrying books by Spinoza, Kant and Freud in his bag — they ended up nicknaming him “Socrates.”
👉 During his initiation at PSG, he scratched some teammates after smashing the bottle he’d grabbed as a microphone while singing Billie Jean: He hadn’t realised the object was made of glass. 🫗
👉 In 2008, after his transfer to Marseille, Lyon’s kit man discovered that he’d left a €90,000 cheque in his locker.
👉 His first Ligue 1 coach, Paul Le Guen, sometimes had to stop training sessions for fear the senior players would lash out because he was humiliating them.
👉 To this day, he remains THE ONLY PLAYER EVER DEEMED TOO GOOD in the history of INF Clairefontaine. 💎🤯
👉 At just 12 years old, he was sponsored by Nike and attracting scouts from Real Madrid, Juventus and Ajax in Montrouge. 🍿
(Source: L’Équipe)