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Arsenal's Arsene Wenger: I faced resistance as a foreigner 20 years ago
Arsenal Chairman, Sir Chips Keswick, presented Arsene Wenger with a gift, thanking the Frenchman for 20 years with the club. Arsene Wenger says he had to convince people that a foreigner could manage Arsenal after being appointed into the role 20 years ago. Wenger, who celebrates two decades in charge of the North London club on Saturday, can still reflect on the scepticism he faced on his first day in the job. "It was a big gamble [by Arsenal], because I was one of the first foreign managers who came to England," Wenger told a news conference. "I think before me you had [Jozef] Venglos, which had not worked well at Aston Villa. So there was a belief that a foreign manager...
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