Wonderful story of 2 decades of Arsene Wenger at Arsenal

20 years ago, Arsene Wenger think aloud in his apartment located in Nagoya,Japan. France-born man was wavering refuse or accept a lucrative job offer.

The job is to be the Manager of Arsenal in 1996. However, Wenger and the Arsenalof community apparently began in 1989. At that time, Wenger was asked to map out and watched the match at Highbury by Arsenal Vice President David Dein.

The party is Arsenal against Tottenham Hotspur which was known as the London derby in January 1989. The Gunners then closed the match with a 2-0 victory and Wenger was impressed by the appearance of Perry Groves.

"He couldn't speak the language of the United Kingdom. He also rely solely on body language. Obviously, it's not commonplace conducted by football manager of the utterance, "one source in the Club to the Metro.

After the meeting, Wenger continued his duties as coach of AS Monaco. He managed to bring the third position AS Monaco in Ligue 1 standings. Striker Ramon Diaz at that time became the top scorer with 15 goals in nicks.

The 1990-1991 season Wenger brought Monaco second position on the standings,Ligue 1 and the final of the Cup Winners ' Cup. However, Wenger failed to bring Monaco grabbed the trophy after losing 0-2 against Werder Bremen with a score of 0-2 (6/5/1992).

Some time after being fired AS Monaco in 1994, He flew to the United Arab Emirates and attend some Conference held by FIFA. Wenger is one of the members of the Committee in charge of FIFA's technique to analyze the operations of the 1994 World Cup.

Presentation of the origin of the Japan delegation riveting Wenger, who at that timewas in the process of restructuring their football competition. Subsequently, the representative of the Nagoya Grampus Eight meet Wenger and provide an offer to become the coach.

The negotiation process goes on for two months. At that time, Wenger asked for input from family and closest friends about this offer, before it was officially served as the coach of Nagoya Grampus Eight in December 1994.

Wenger immediately perform total reshuffle in Nagoya Grampus Eight. He invites the players to Versailles at half season to do creative exercises of various types.

Reportedly, Wenger often shouted to players. "Don't look at me and ask what should you do with the ball. You must think about it myself! Why do you not think? "

Over the past year were in Japan, Wenger offered two titles for the Nagoya Grampus Eight, i.e. Emperor's Cup 1995 and J-League Super Cup in 1996.

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Career at Arsenal

Although working as coach of AS Monaco and Nagoya Grampus Eight, Arsene Wenger keep in touch both with the Vice President of the Arsenal, Dein. In fact, Dein often sent a video of the match Wenger Arsenal and asked for opinions from Wenger.

However, Arsenal's Board rejected the request for Dein to employ Wenger as Manager in 1995 and elected Bruce Rioch as Manager. However, everything changed on October 1, 1996. Wenger is appointed as a replacement for Rioch.

"One of the things I found in Japan are sumo from watching. At the end of the fight,you'll never know who just won, who lost, because they do not show their emotionsbecause it could make the player who lost to shame, "said Wenger.

"It's incredible. That's why I try to teach my team about a sense of respect for the opponent. Only in the United Kingdom alone everyone poked his tongue into the opponents when they win, "he added.

Same as in Nagoya, a major renovation of the direct Wenger in Arsenal's body. He's doing the food revolution by banning the players eating tomato sauce.

Wenger is increasingly not popular among players of Arsenal with a variety of regulations to respond. One of the rules is not the most favored the penggawa The Gunners is a ban on drinking together after the match.

"That is truly unnerving in the United Kingdom is on a diet. Throughout the day you drink tea with milk and coffee with milk and cookies. If you have a fantasy world what You shouldn't eat in sports, in eating here. "

However, a bad image in the eyes of the players Wenger fade along with the genius of the tactics that he points out. He brought the gun London became champions ofthe Premier League season 1997-1998 after accumulating 78 points from 38 matches, winning one point from Manchester United that occupies the second position.

Wenger continues to be the figure of the protagonist in the eyes of supporters andplayers on the 2003-2004 season. He brought Arsenal won the Premier League with no unbeaten during the season. Amazing season it was known as the Invincible Arsenal.

However, the record of unbeaten Arsenal match was 54th stalled at 49. At that time,Arsenal succumbed 0-2 against Manchester United on October 24, 2004.