Arsène Wenger OBE is a French football manager who, as of July 2009, is currently the manager of Arsenal FC and has been since 1996. He has coached Arsenal through more matches than any other Arsenal manager in history and is Arsenal's most successful manager in terms of trophies. Wenger is also the only non-British, English football manager to have won the Double (1998, and again in 2002) and is the only manager in Premier League history to have an entirely undefeated season (2004). In 2006, Wenger was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame.
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Wenger’s career managerial trophies and League wins for Arsenal include the Premier League (3 times), the FA Cup (4 times), and the FA Community Shield (4 times).
Wenger has been the Premier League Manager of the Month 10 times (the first in March 1998, and the most recent in December 2007)
Wenger is married to former basketball player Annie Brosterhous, and the couple have one daughter.
As a player, Wenger played for FC Mulhouse, ASPV Strasbourg, and RC Strasbourg, before turning to club management. Wenger has managed AS Nancy-Lorraine, AS Monaco, Nagoya Grampus Eight, and Arsenal
Wenger has a degree in engineering and a Masters in economics from Strasbourg University, and speaks French, German, English and Spanish fluently, as well as a little Italian.
In 2007, astronomer Ian P. Griffin, an avid Arsenal fan, named an Asteroid after Wenger. 33179 Arsenewenger is an asteroid that orbits between Mars and Jupiter
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