He arrived in Berlin on Friday evening and will attend the Euro final on Sunday. Arsène Wenger has spent his last weeks in Germany, in the stands for around twenty matches, dissecting the game and the players as an incorrigible football lover.
“A match is a story. Sometimes it’s boring for twenty minutes, then something happens and we watch how the teams respond. If they struggle, I try to understand why. Young people consume more snapshots today but I experience a match as an adventure. It’s the unfolding of a life for 90 minutes.”
A privileged observer, even if he also let himself be carried away by passion – “when I see (Lamine) Yamal score his goal (against France), I let myself be carried away by the grace of the spectacle, football becomes an art” –, the Alsatian delivers his analysis of a competition where “hyperstructuring”, more than physical freshness, harmed the spectacle.
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