New York mayor wears Arsenal kurta during Eid prayers

The Mayor of New York City Zohran Mamdani took his Arsenal super-fandom up a notch connected Wednesday erstwhile helium attended Eid al-Adha prayers successful the Bronx wearing an Arsenal themed kurta.

Images of Mamdani's kurta - a accepted loose-fitting tunic - based connected Arsenal's 2025-26 navy and reddish lightning bolt distant shirt, went viral.

Mamdani was calved and raised successful Uganda and is New York's archetypal Muslim and Asian-American mayor.

He began supporting Arsenal astatine the property of 10 erstwhile his uncle bought him a acceptable of fridge magnets with the images of Gunners stars including Sylvain Wiltord, David Seaman, Sol Campbell, and Thierry Henry.

He whitethorn beryllium the politician of the biggest metropolis successful the United States, but the 34-year-old delighted successful Arsenal's Premier League rubric triumph successful overmuch the aforesaid mode arsenic residents of Highbury and Islington.

Mamdani's shot fanaticism is acold from constricted to Arsenal though.

His societal media followers lapped up his quality to callback obscure 90s footballers, and the information helium is simply a shareholder successful Spanish broadside Real Oviedo.

The person was 1 of 20,000 radical to get progressive successful an planetary share-buying run the nine launched erstwhile facing bankruptcy successful 2012.

Mamdani, elected New York politician successful November, has besides spoken retired astir Fifa's usage of dynamic pricing for 2026 World Cup tickets.

He precocious announced a lottery for 1,000 New York residents to triumph the accidental to acquisition $50 (£37.30) tourney tickets.

The 50,000-person regular bounds for entering the lottery was reached wrong 3 minutes connected its opening day.

New Jersey's MetLife stadium, the location of NFL franchises the New York Jets and the New York Giants, is acceptable to big the last of the 48-team tourney which is taking spot crossed the United States, Mexico and Canada betwixt 11 June and 19 July.

That Mamdani melded Premier League and Eid al-Adha celebrations with a customized kurta begs 1 question - what volition his celebrations look similar if Arsenal triumph the Champions League?

Arsenal look Paris St-Germain successful the last of European nine football's astir prestigious tourney successful Budapest connected Saturday, 30 May astatine 17:00 BST.