When Arsène Wenger bade farewell to Arsenal with a theatrical bow after four uninterrupted decades in management, he could barely imagine a day away from what he describes as “the heat”. Now, after a year breathing cooler air, he is asking himself the question of what he really wants to do with his football obsession. There was never going to be a complete exit. Football still occupies him, enthralls him, keeps him in its unrelenting grip.
Waking one morning last May to begin the process of reinventing himself, to an extent reacquainting himself with the world away from the furnace, was less of a shock than he expected. “It is not so difficult because for all of us in life you have competition with others, and competition with yourself. My toughest one was with myself. Even now what is interesting is my basic question: what is my next level? I feel I will live with that as long as I am on earth. That will not change.”
Written by Amy Lawrence
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/may/23/arsene-wenger-boot-back-into-football-future-arsenal under the title “Arsène Wenger: ‘All of us have competition. My toughest one was with myself’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
