Arsenal Invincible Lauren has recalled watching Sevilla teammate Diego Maradona in training.

Lauren was a teen in the academy when Maradona joined Sevilla late in his career.

He told the Daily Mail: "When I was playing in their youth academy I just enjoyed myself. It was fun. I see a lot of youth football now and I think that is being lost a bit.

"Kids don't go there just to enjoy themselves. They go there to become professionals. I feel fortunate to have come through in the era I did."

On Maradona, Lauren added: "I used to watch him train. He would be taking free-kicks and he would score the first, and then the second, and I would think: the third one is not going to go in as well, and he'd score that too.

"The fourth would go in too and I'd think: okay maybe he'll miss the fifth, and in it went. I have never seen anything like it before or since."