Name: Arsene Wenger
Position: Manager
Born: October 22nd, 1949
Strasbourg, France
Previous clubs
as player: Mutzig, Mulhouse, Strasbourg
Joined Arsenal 28 September 1996
Clubs as
manager/coach: Strasbourg (youth section) Cannes
(assistant) Nancy AS Monaco Grampus Eight
Nagoya (Japan)
Honours
(Monaco): French League championship 1988; French Cup
winners 1991; French 'Manager of the Year'
1988
Honours
(Grampus Eight):Japan's 'Manager of the Year' 1995,
Emperor's Cup winner 1996, Japanese Super
Cup winner 1996
Honours
(Arsenal): League championship 1998, 2002, 2004. F.A.
Cup winners 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005. Voted
'Manager of the Year' 1998, 2002, 2004.Arsène is the most successful manager in the Club's history. He has won seven major trophies with the Gunners - three league titles and four FA Cups - as well as four Charity/Community Shields. He is the only Gunners manager to have won the FA Cup more than once, and has won the League and FA Cup ‘double’ twice with Arsenal (1998 and 2002), the first Arsenal manager to do so.Season 2003/04 saw him become the first manager in English league history to complete an entire 38 league game campaign unbeaten.Last season he became the first manager to lead Arsenal to the final of the UEFA Champions League. On their way, the club set a new Champions League record for consecutive clean sheets - 10 in all.In 2003 he was awarded an honorary OBE, a decoration to accompany his Legion d'Honneur, France’s highest civil honour, which he received a year earlier in 2002.In October 2004, he was awarded the Freedom of Islington and has two degrees - one, an economics degree from Strasbourg University and another, an honoury DSc, from the University of Hertfordshire. He is fluent in five languages and was instrumental in the designs, particularly for the first-team dressing room, at Emirates Stadium.
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