Two men have been charged with an attempted car jacking of two Arsenal footballers Mesut Özil and Sead Kolasinac in London.

"Two men have been charged following an attempted robbery in Hampstead," the Metropolitan Police said in a statement on Tuesday evening.

Ashley Smith and Jordan Northover were also charged with threatening a person with an offensive weapon.

Arsenal's German footballer of Turkish descent Özil and his teammate Bosnian player Kolasinac were targeted by armed men in London on July 25.

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