My Life in Red and White: The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Autobiography Business, Finance & Law,Management,Management Skills by Arsene Wenger with 352 pages.
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- Title : My Life in Red and White: The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Autobiography
Brand : Arsene Wenger
Category : Business, Finance & Law,Management,Management Skills
ISBN : 1474618243
Page of number : 352 pages
Publisher : W&N (13 Oct. 2020)
Language : English
Dimensions : 16.2 x 3.6 x 23.6 cm
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Business, Finance & Law,Management,Management Skills My Life in Red and White: The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Autobiography by Arsene Wenger There is only one Arsène Wenger – and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story. In this definitive autobiography, the world-renowned revolutionary football manager discusses his life and career, sharing his leadership principles for success on and off the field and recalling vivid tales of guiding Arsenal to unprecedented success. One of the most influential figures in world football, Wenger won multiple Premier League titles, a record number of FA Cups, and masterminded Arsenal’s historic ‘Invincibles’ season of 2003-2004 and 49-match unbeaten run. He changed the game in England forever, popularising an attacking approach and changing attitudes towards nutrition, fitness and coaching methods – and towards foreign managers. In My Life in Red and White, Wenger charts his extraordinary career, including his rise in France and Japan where he managed Nancy, Monaco and Nagoya Grampus Eight – clubs that also play in red-and-white – to his twenty-two years in north London at the helm of one of the world’s biggest clubs. He reflects on Arsenal’s astonishing domestic triumphs and bittersweet European campaigns; signing – and selling – some of the world’s most talented players; moving the Gunners to their new home, the Emirates Stadium; and the unrest that led to his departure in 2018 and subsequent role as Chief of Global Football Development for FIFA. This book is a must-read for not only Arsenal supporters but football fans everywhere, as well as business leaders and anyone seeking the tools for success in work and life. It will illuminate the mystique surrounding one of the most revered and respected managers, revealing the wisdom and vision that made him an icon in the world’s most popular sport.
- … it’s not the book it could have been. If you take out the stats at the back and the padding (pointless blank pages between chapters) it’s barely 200 pages and can be read in an afternoon. It suffers a bit from football “omerta” in that he doesn’t really open up, or name names. The matchfixing scandal he was a victim of in France is glossed over and there aren’t many new insights, other than maybe RVP didn’t get on with TH14. It’s a pleasant, enjoyable read, but for a man who was so important to Arsenal it’s just a bit superficial when it could have been a serious, major work.
Arsène Wenger has always been a wonderful phrase-maker. In this book for instance he describes Ian Wright as a striker who ‘those around him sometimes found hard to control, his opponents especially’. But that’s the only example here of his characteristic elegance. This is a PowerPoint of a book.It contains a two-page bullet list of players he signed with pointless little bios (‘Pascal Cygan, from Lille, left-sided centre-back, who had a good career at the club’). There is a fond look back at the club’s ‘fundamental values’: ‘Be together’, ‘Move forward’ and the borstal-sounding ‘Act with class’.Beyond the David Brentery, Wenger was always likely to write the book with French restraint rather than Anglo-Saxon lack of tact. But the result is that when it comes to his 22 years at Arsenal, everybody who reads this book will already know everything in it.Take Arsenal’s greatest player, Dennis Bergkamp. He has five entries in the index. This is the first time he appears in the text: ‘Dennis Bergkamp, the club’s unconditional idol, a perfectionist whom I never saw make a careless technical move, had arrived a year before me, bought from Inter Milan. He had had a difficult first season but I knew he was a fantastic player, that he needed to be given the ball and that he needed to control the game to show all that he was capable of. Dennis, a great player, saw things fast, moved fast, decided fast and executed with perfection and elegance.’If you overheard that assessment in the supermarket you would have forgotten it by the time you reached the checkout.This is the second mention: ‘I could count on men like Tony Adams, David Seaman, Lee Dixon, Ian Wright, Dennis Bergkamp, Marc Overmars, David Platt, Ray Parlour, and the French players I had brought over: Rémi Garde, Gilles Grimandi, Emmanuel Petit, Patrick Vieira and Nicola Anelka.’The third (about the Invincibles, so the feat of memory is perhaps not so impressive): ‘I remember every single player in that exceptional team. Obviously, everyone remembers the stars, the players who were the lynchpins: Patrick Vieira, Gilberto Siva, Ray Parlour, Freddie Ljungberg, Robert Pirès, Dennis Bergkamp, Thierry Henry, Lauren, Jens Lehmann and Ashley Cole, who had been at the academy since he was eleven and had debuted with me at Arsenal.’The fourth (on fielding a team with no English players): ‘There was Dennis Bergkamp, José Antonio Reyes, Kolo Touré, Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Lauren…’Finally, it is recorded that Robin Van Persie eventually wore ‘the number 10 shirt that had once belonged to Dennis Bergkamp’.Those are all the mentions of Dennis Bergkamp. No one else fares any better, but those two worked together for ten years.
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