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YEREVAN, MARCH 27, ARMENPRESS. Arsenal players have learned quickly how to play alongside their new Armenian teammate Henrikh Mkhitaryan, spelling his name however proved a lot more difficult.
Per Mertesacker, the German captain of the Gunners, tried to teach his teammates how to pronounce the Armenian international’s name.
The Gunners posted a video on Twitter where Mertesacker is attempting to teach Rob Holding and Ainsley Maitland-Niles to spell the name of their Armenian teammate.
Rob Holding and Ainsley Maitland-Niles both failed miserably at that task when put to the test by Per Mertesackerin a videoto help launch a new "Word Match" game in the Junior Gunners app.
Despite Mertesacker's best attempts to help out, neither Holding nor Maitland-Niles could figure out just where to play the H in the Armenian's name.
They could spell the name of fellow January signing Konstantinos Mavropanos, however,
English –translator/editor: Stepan Kocharyan
To celebrate the launch of our new JG app game Word Match, we enlisted the help of @mertesacker to put @RobHolding95 and @Ains_7 spelling skills to the test
Watch the full video here https://t.co/w8GOWLBT8i and make sure you enter our competition... #JGEaster pic.twitter.com/FOQ5h58fld
— Junior Gunners (@JuniorGunners) 26 марта 2018 г.