Arsene Wenger
Arsene Wenger
Arsène Wenger, OBEɛʁ]; born 22 October 1949), is a French football manager and former player. He has been the manager of Arsenal since 1996, where he has since become the club's longest-serving manager and most successful in terms of major titles won. Football pundits give Wenger credit for his contribution to the revolutionising of football in England in the late 1990s through the introduction of changes in the training and diet of players...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth22 October 1949
CityStrasbourg, France
CountryFrance
When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.
Messi is a Playstation.
The communist model does not work economically, we all realised that, but the capitalist model in the modern world also looks to be unsustainable.
What makes him special? He has a mixture of physical talent and technical ability, as well as remarkable intelligence and above all a great passion for the game.
Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.
At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.
We do not buy superstars. We make them.
A football team is a like a beautiful woman, when you do not tell her, she forgets she is beautiful
I am in a job where you always look in front of you. Unfortunately, the older you get, the less distance there is in front of you.
As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.
I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.
If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.
A company works best when everybody does the job he is paid to do.