SINGAPORE — Two years after his retirement, Arsene Wenger can still captivate an audience, just like he did when he was shaping Arsenal as the most stylish attacking force the English Premier League had ever seen.
With a new autobiography released on Tuesday titled “My Life in Red and White”, Wenger sat down in front of an audience at the London Palladium – and thousands of fans via online live streaming – and chatted about his life from a young football fanatic in his hometown near Strasbourg, to his extraordinary 22-year managerial career at Arsenal.Why he has finally released his autobiography:“I resisted a long time to write the book.
“Then you have people with extrinsic motivation. They are motivated by goals coming from outside – people say to them, ‘You have to do this much in the game’, or, ‘If you do that, you will get the big bonus’. And they would do it. “But I adjusted, slowly adapted. But to take a defeat was always very difficult, and every big defeat is a scar in your heart forever. A manager who is a happy loser doesn’t get very far.”
On his rivalry with Alex Ferguson:“Competition makes you hate your opponent. I know he hated me, and I hated him too, sometimes. But when the competition ends, what remains is respect – respect for what he has achieved, how long he stayed in the game, and how much he dedicated his life. Respect comes when the game is over, and you know each other better outside of competition. But when we had competition together, it was always a fight.
Singapore Latest News, Singapore Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: The Straits Times - 🏆 8. / 63 Read more »
Source: ChannelNewsAsia - 🏆 6. / 66 Read more »
Source: ChannelNewsAsia - 🏆 6. / 66 Read more »
Source: The Straits Times - 🏆 8. / 63 Read more »
Source: ChannelNewsAsia - 🏆 6. / 66 Read more »
Source: YahooSG - 🏆 3. / 71 Read more »