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
Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.
When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.
Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.
I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.
To achieve great things you have first to believe it.
Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.
Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.
At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
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.
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.