Real legends for their clubs could be few of the managers. Alex Ferguson gave about three decades to the “red devils", Lobanovsky coached Dynamo Kiev for twenty years. Regardless of the attitude of Arsene Wenger, the famous Professor, his opponents and fans, but the French coach has long gone down in the history of gunners. The most famous achievements in the club’s recent history are associated with it.
For more than ten years, Arsenal did not become a winner in the national championship, did not win the Eurocups. Arsene Wenger coached players from 1996 to 2018, working in the club for over three decades.
Career start
The biography of the great coach began in 1949 in Strastburg. The boy was born on October 22 in the family of Louise and Alfons Wenger. Neither Arsen himself nor his brother and sister were engaged in farming, helping adults in their affairs, but played freely. The family business of parents, a cafe-bistro, brought a good income.
The future famous coach studied well. After school, he became a student at the University of Strasbourg, deciding to choose the profession of an engineer. The young man who received his doctorate in economics played in youth football teams. By the age of twenty-five, he had learned several foreign languages. As a player, he realized on the position of the centerback.
A reasonable football player superbly calculated all the moves of the opponents. He preferred the tactical and technical opposition of the stroke to the banal knockout of balls. This strategy really helped Wenger in the future when he became a football manager. While the rest of the coaches of eminent clubs acquired famous players for considerable funds, as soon as possible and more, Wenger educated his youth.
The rebuke to this business was the lack of ongoing victories. However, the fidelity of the tactics chosen by the mentor is proved by time. As a result, the gunners after ten years of losing dryly became the owners of two Cups and the Super Bowl of England. The Hungarian player did not belong to eminent clubs. He did not receive a big name, did not show trophies. The athlete's game practice took place in his native France.
For nine years, he played for local teams about two hundred matches. Only at the end of his career Arsen moved to “Strastburg”, where he won the national championship.
Coaching
After the completion of the game, Monsieur Wenger began coaching. In 1981, he led the Strastburg youth team. After a couple of years, he was an assistant coach at Cannes. In 1984, Wenger received an offer to become the main mentor of Nancy.
The real triumph was the time from 1987 to 1994. Then Arsen worked with Monaco. He helped the team win the first trophies. Among them are the gold medals of the French championship, the national cup. Thanks to the able leadership, the team reached the final of the Cup Winners Cup in 1992.
In 1995, Arsen hit fans with a transition to the exotic J-League. Mentor coached the Nagoya Grampus Eyt during the season. According to the results of the 1995-1996 championship, Wenger was recognized as the best in Japan.
His photos flaunt in all the country's clubs, and the fans are proud that the Professor himself worked with their team. One of the most difficult languages in the world submitted to Wenger in less than one year of work in the Land of the Rising Sun.
In the summer of 1996, Arsen became a mentor at London's Arsenal. In 1996, for the sake of training the “gunners”, Wenger abandoned the prospect of leading the English national team.
New approach
From the first moment, the new coach changed the usual approach to organizing training. They hired a staff of specialists for development. This applied to everything from training to menu completion.
It was made taking into account the needs of all players and each of them in particular. Wenger was in no hurry to spend fabulous funds on staffing the team with accomplished stars. He preferred the education of young players to an elite level.
"Arsenal Academy" released in due time Ashley Cole, Cesc Fabregas and other stellar footballers. Monsieur Wenger discovered young talents. These are Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Robin Vannes Percy and many others. It is the "gunners" that the mentor owes the appearance of the nickname "Professor".
Painstaking work yielded results. Very soon the gunners won the English Premier League gold. This event is noteworthy in that for the first time a foreign specialist, a Frenchman, brought the national team to the first place in one season. With the beginning of the millennium, the “gunners” firmly entrenched in the leadership group of Eurofootball.
The club took its place in the prestigious Champions League. “Arsenal” confidently walked along with the main contenders for gold medals. In 1998, 2002, 2004 the team won the national championships.
