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Arsenal Announces Documentary On Gabriel Jesus’ Return From Injury

Arsenal on Monday announced plans to release a documentary series covering Gabriel Jesus’ knee injury sustained at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar and his recovery.

Following the huge success that was Arsenal’s own ‘All or Nothing’ series with Amazon Prime, believed to have had a huge positive impact on the team this season, the club has announced they will release a mini-series in partnership with Adidas that covers Jesus and his comeback from a knee injury.

The knee injury derailed his World Cup and his impressive start to life at Arsenal after joining from Manchester City for £45m.

Details on what the documentary series would cover were released on Arsenal’s website: “Come Back Stronger: The Return of Gabriel Jesus will chart Gabby’s journey from an emotional 48 hours in Qatar where the scale of the injury became clear, through to the surgery and rehabilitation process as he attempts to return to first-team action.

“The mini-series will premiere exclusively for Arsenal members being made available on YouTube. Stay tuned for release details.”

Jesus got off to a blistering start as a Gunner upon signing, bagging five goals and six assists before the World Cup break to help fire Arsenal into a Premier League title fight.

However, his tournament with Brazil was over after he picked up a knee injury in their final group-stage game against Cameroon, sustaining ligament damage on his first start in Qatar.

But after a period of three months on the sidelines, the 25-year-old returned to action as Arsenal breezed past Fulham over the weekend and comes back into the fold at a crucial time of the season.

Despite his strong start, Arsenal has continued to win in Jesus’ absence and is playing like champions. It’s now up to the Brazilian to work his way back into Mikel Arteta’s starting XI.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.