MY IDEAL/FAVOURITE COACH. BY @SAHMIE

Greetings to every one of you. I can only hope you all are doing wonderfully well. This is my article for the "Your favourite football manager" contest. By the way, thank you for such a lovely contest. I wish to invite @kinase, @five5 and @yangitu99, and any other persons who would like too.

The question is "who is your favourite football manager"? For me, it has to be a certain French man. Oh yes, it just has to be "Le Professeur", Mr Arsène Charles Ernest Wenger, popularly known as Arsene Wenger. Even though Jose Mourinho "The special one" did call him "the specialist in failure" Lol. He is still my favourite.

ABOUT ARSENE WENGER

born on 22 October 1949 in Strasbourg, France. He is a former French footballer and manager, as he is currently without a club and working at Fifa, The football governing body of the world where he is currently serving as Chief of Global Football Development. He is one of the most celebrated managers of his generation, has changed perceptions of the sport and profession in England and abroad.
^{Arsene Wenger Source}

His approach to the game emphasises on attacking mentality, with the aim that football ought to be entertaining on the pitch. Among all clubs he worked for, his time with my darling Arsenal was his stand out point.

MANAGERIAL CAREER

His playing career does not cause much excitement as all his major senior career appearance was for armature clubs. But after a modest playing career, he went on to become a football manager. starting with NANCY where he had an unsuccessful path. His genius thinker brain came limelight when he joined MONACO and lead them to the championship and the Coupe de France. After his spell with Monaco, he moved on to the Japanese League where he joined Nagoya Grampus Eight where he won the Emperor's Cup and the Japanese Super Cup.
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He was appointed as manager of ARSENAL in 1996 just after a year with the Japanese outfit. his appointment was greeted with little or no enthusiasm by the English media and players alike as was coming to a less impressive league. But to the surprise of all, In 1998 two years after his appointment, he became the first foreign manager to win a Premier League and FA Cup double. Another league and cup double followed in 2002 and won his third league title came in 2004, of which earnt distinction as his team ended the season undefeated in the domestic league, of which no manager has been able to replicate.
^{The Golden Invicibles Trophy Source}

Currently, he also holds the record for most FA Cup titles won in with seven to his name. At my early age, I could not help but wonder if Arsenal football club was named after him, Lol. Then, he retired from management in the year 2018 when he left Arsenal after some disagreeing views from the club supporters.
^{Thiery Henry Source}

For his love and faith in youths, he promoted and brought in youths. Under his guidance, he established a lot of young talents and players. Some of which went on to win the Balon D'or in George Weah, the only African player to have won the prestigious title.
^{George Weah Source}

He also guided a lot of young prospects and players to the limelight such as Jack Wilshere, Cesc Fabregas, Robin van Persie, Hector Bellerin, Samir Nasri, Emmanuel Petit, Nicolas Anelka, Marc Overmars, Dennis Bergkamp, Ian Wright, Thierry Henry to name a few.

MANAGERIAL HONOURS

• 1x France Division (1987–88)
• 1x Coupe de France (1990–91)
• 1x Emperor's Cup (1995)
• 1x Japanese Super Cup (1996)
• 3x English Premier League (1997–98, 2001–02, 2003–04)
• 7x English FA Cup (1997–98, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17)
• 7x FA Charity/Community Shield (1998,
  1999, 2002, 2004, 2014, 2015, 2017)
• J. League Manager of the Year (1995)
• 4x Onze d'Or Coach of The Year (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004)
• 3x Premier League Manager of the Season (1997–98, 2001–02, 2003–04)
• 2x LMA Manager of the Year (2001–02, 2003–04)
• 2x BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award (2002, 2004)
• 1x London Football Awards – Outstanding Contribution to a London Club (2015)
• 1x World Manager of the Year (1998)
• 1x FWA Tribute Award (2005)
• 1x English Football Hall of Fame (2006)
• 1x France Football Manager of the Year (2008)
• 1x IFFHS World Coach of the Decade (2001–2010)
• 1x Facebook FA Premier League Manager of the Year (2014–15)
• 15x Premier League Manager of the Month (March 1998, April 1998,
  October 2000, April 2002, September 2002, August 2003, February 2004,
  August 2004, September 2007, December 2007, February 2011,
  February 2012, September 2013,
  March 2015, October 2015)
• 1x France Football 32nd Greatest Manager of All Time (2019)
• 1x World Soccer 36th Greatest Manager of All Time (2013)
• Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award (2019)
  

ORDER ACCOLADES

• Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (2002)
• Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2003)
• Freedom of Islington (2004)
• This Knight Grand Commander of the Humane Order of African Redemption (2018)
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As much as I like him this much, don't get me wrong some of the statistics counts way back before even I was born. Therefore, I couldn't have known all that. so I would to tell you that, all statistics and dates used in the article were gotten from Wikipedia.

I know I can't be here to write without you on the other end, I can never stop being appreciative of your great efforts. Thank you all for always making out time to go through my work. I can never say thank you enough. You are my real MVPs.

THANK YOU!!!

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