Arsène Charles Ernest Wenger OBE (born 22 October 1949) is a French former football manager and player. He is currently FIFA’s Chief of Global Football Development. Wenger was the manager of Arsenal from 1996 to 2018, where he was the longest-serving and most successful in the club’s history. He led Arsenal to a Premier League and FA Cup double in 2002 and retained the FA Cup a year later. In 2004, Wenger managed Arsenal to an undefeated domestic league season, a feat last accomplished by Preston North End, 115 years previously.
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Arsène Charles Ernest Wenger OBE (born 22 October 1949) is a French former football manager and player. He is currently FIFA’s Chief of Global Football Development. He was the manager of Arsenal from 1996 to 2018, where he was the longest-serving and most successful in the club’s history. Wenger was introduced to football by his father, who managed the local village team. After a modest playing career, he made appearances for several amateur clubs. Wenger obtained a manager’s diploma in 1981. He led Arsenal to a Premier League and FA Cup double in 2002 and retained the FA Cup a year later. In 2004, Wenger managed Arsenal to an undefeated domestic league season, a feat last accomplished by Preston North End, 115 years previously. His approach to the game emphasises an attacking mentality, with the aim that football ought to be entertaining on the pitch. Wenger’s Arsenal teams have been criticised for their indiscipline; his players received 100 red cards between September 1996 and February 2014, though the team has won awards for sporting fair play. The nickname ‘Le Professeur’ is used by fans and the British media to reflect Wenger’s studious demeanour. Wenger is the youngest of three children born to Alphonse and Louise Wenger. He lived in Duppigheim during the 1950s, but spent most of his time in the neighbouring village of Duttlenheim, 16 km south-west of Strasbourg. The Wengers owned an automobile spare parts business and a bistro titled La croix d’or.
In his book, My Life in Red and White, Wenger says the alcohol, brawling and violence of the patrons sparked his early interest in human psychology. His parents had difficulty looking after their children, but the village was a village were everyone took care of the young; Wenger compared it in later years to a kibbutz. Before Wenger started school, he expressed himself in the local Alsatian dialect of Low Alemannic German. As one of its brightest students, he later was accepted into a secondary school in Obernai. He later won the Emperor’s Cup and Japanese Super Cup during his stay in Japan with J. League side Nagoya Grampus Eight. Wenger held an affection for Borussia Möncheladbach games in Germany and was taken to an area steeped in Alsace-Lorraine by the local Catholic priest to watch games. He made up for his lack of pace with his ability to guard the ball and to have a complete vision of the pitch, according to Marcel Brandner, the president of FC Dutthenheim. He won the French Cup with Monaco in 1991 and the Coupe de France with the club in 1991. He also won the German Cup with Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1994. Wenger won the Champions League with Mönchen in 1995 and the German FA Cup in 1996. He guided Arsenal to the Premier League title in 1998 and the FA League title with Arsenal in 2000.
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