Arsene Wenger is considered in the football world to be one of the most responsible for the revolution in the English Premier League.
Wenger joined Arsenal in October 1996 and was manager for 22 years, winning three Premier League titles and a record seven FA Cups.
He also made history when the Gunners finished the 2003/04 season. undefeated in the Premier League.
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Since leaving the Emirates Stadium, the Frenchman has taken up a position on FIFA's governing body, which oversees the sport's global development.
The 70-year-old spoke to BBC Sport about the past, present and future.
The past
What does Arsenal mean to you?
The love of my life. I gave 22 years of my life to the club. I built the training center and I built the Emirates Stadium.
I have shed a lot of sweat in order to return the money from the construction of the stadium and to create an atmosphere and infrastructure that will allow this club to achieve lower levels of success and invest in the future.
I think we are in a good position now.
I'm a bit like that guy who ended the relationship and has no contact with the kids, but still loves them very much.
Looking back today, was signing the Emirates Stadium loan deal a mistake?
I accepted because I experienced it as a challenge. The first ten years we competed to win the championship, but I knew the second decade would be more difficult.
I think we played exceptional football, at times we were in a position to win the league, but overall as a team we were much younger.
Maybe I'm more proud of the second part of my career than the first because the first was easy. The second one was more difficult and my resilience was really tested.
I am very proud to have served the club at such a delicate stage.
You haven't been back to the stadium since you lost your job in May 2018...
I decided to stay away completely. That doesn't mean emotionally, just physically. It's important that people don't see you as a shadow.
It can look like you're trying to influence things and push something of your own. I thought it best to cut it off completely.
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Towards the end of his stay at Arsenal there were protests and demonstrations. Did it hurt you?
I don't think you should take too seriously what a fan says at the moment - the fan says it at that moment, he is guided by emotions. Today it seems as if the minority is running a great dictatorship.
It dictates what is talked about, so if you have 50 people on social media who are negative, they somehow manage to get more attention than 60.000 people in a stadium.
This does not mean that everyone has to do what they say.
If you look at our last three years, you'll see that in 2016 we finished second - okay, behind Leicester, but every other club finished behind Leicester, and they only lost three games.
In 2017, we were not in the Champions League for the first time in two decades.
So, yes, I would have liked to have kept that record, but I think we have a great chance to get back into the top four this year.
You had a fierce rivalry with Manchester United's Sir Alex Ferguson and Chelsea's Jose Mourinho - is that still the case? Are you in touch?
I keep in touch poorly because I don't spend much time in the country. I respect them.
When you're competing, it's either you or them, so it's always a bit aggressive. But after all, when you meet these people outside the competition, it's not like that.
You're both suffering, you're both having difficulties with your team, but when you're there you have to defend the club at all costs and that's why it gets a bit out of hand sometimes.
Overall, there is enough respect to always smooth things over with a conversation afterwards.
As Arsenal manager, you turned down offers from Real Madrid twice, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, France, England and Manchester United - which of these did you come closest to accepting?
Definitely Real Madrid - because you don't know many people who turned him down twice. And it was to stay with a team that doesn't have the resources to win a championship.
But I told myself if I had already accepted the challenge of managing Arsenal, I would stay until the end.
You have different types of coaches. I'm the longest-serving manager at Monaco and Arsenal - so it seems to be part of my personality.
What was the toughest team you played against and which players?
Team - Wimbledon, when I first came to England, and the players were Roy Keane and Alf Inge Haaland.
There are certainly not many regrets in such a glittering career, but Arsenal has always been mentioned in the context of some big names. Do you ever sit down and ask yourself? - shwould that be?
Of course I wonder what would have happened, for example, if Cristiano Ronaldo had played with Thierry Henry, Roberto Pires, Silvano Viltor and Denis Bergkamp. Maybe we would score 200 goals per season!
Sometimes you regret something, you think it's your fault that you didn't make a decision fast enough or sometimes you couldn't financially make a decision fast enough.
But overall I have to say that if you look at Chelsea, if you look at Manchester United, if you look at Liverpool... Every club is full of stories like this.
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Do you regret not buying Zlatan Ibrahimovic, instead of inviting him for a trial?
No, because at the time he was a seventeen-year-old playing in Malmo in the second division in Sweden. And nobody knew about him.
We invited a lot of 17-year-old players to trials - it was perfectly normal before you make a decision.
What would you like your legacy to be?
As someone who served his club with total dedication, integrity, honesty and who loved his club.
I gave Arsenal the best years of my life. In different circumstances I always felt the same passion.
The present
Is it true that when you wake up you still go through the same routine as when you were a trainer, including two hours a day in the gym?
It's true, even on weekends. Sport is like brushing your teeth - if you do it once a week, it's not very effective, but if you do it every day, it's more effective.
How much football do you watch today?
I only watch football. In the morning, I watch the games that were played the night before. It's my passion.
When you are born, your first instinct is to survive. Then you have to find the meaning of life. My life is football.
I grew up in a small pub that was also the headquarters of the local football team.
From the age of four or five, I heard people talking only about football and I was convinced that it was the only important thing in this world.
Are Arsenal in good hands with current manager Mikel Arteta?
It is. He has all the elements to be a very good coach, a top coach, but many of my former players had those elements.
We have to give them time, let them do the work they want.
He is intelligent, has great passion and a strong character. And I think he surrounded himself with the right people.
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You signed Mesut Ozil for a then club record £42,4m deal - what do you think of his career at the moment?
I think it's a shame for him.
First, because he is at the age when a player of his talent can give the most.
And it's a shame for the club too, because he's a super talent, a creative player who can make the decisive pass in the final third.
Football is currently played on fast counter-pressing, quick reactions and everyone plays the same. That pushed out players like Ozil. Although let's not forget that he is a world champion who played for Real Madrid.
He was the player with the most assists, so you have to find a way to get him back into the game.
You support the VAR system, but can you understand the dissatisfaction of others with it?
First of all, let's ask ourselves: is VAR effective? When you look at the statistics, the reviews show a jump from 84 percent of the right decisions to 95 percent.
It is a system that is above all our opinions.
Another thing is that he fights against corruption because one man alone cannot influence the decision. For me, that's something important, because it wasn't always like that.
Yes, he can be slow at times, but I think if we pulled him now, people would want him back.
Last year people didn't accept the offside rule. No one is talking about him this year. It has nothing to do with money, you just want the right decisions to be made.
Are the punishments for showing racism enough?
We must not tolerate racism and I think that sport, especially football, has a huge responsibility - to show that we can live together, to share what we love.
I don't think we can tolerate racism in the stands. We have to punish him. How should we punish him? We haven't found the right answer yet.
I think it's cameras to recognize people who do it and then life bans for them.
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Future
Today, your job is to develop the game. You want to remove the performance of the car…
When you have a layoff, it should be an advantage for the team in possession. But in reality you're not at an advantage, with nine players on the court compared to your opponent's 10 players.
Also, you have to use your hands to pass the ball. I'd say you have more chances to lose that ball.
That's why I believe we always have to think about how we can make the game faster and more spectacular.
So why can't we throw the ball into play when we are in our own half?
We always have to think about how we can make the game faster and more interesting, and most of the rules that were devised led to a more spectacular game.
I also think you should be able to take a free kick (with multiple touches) when you are brought down.
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You really want to focus on equal access of young people to infrastructure in all corners of the world and to develop women's football...
I want to give everyone the same chance. In Europe, we are in a bubble. There are countries where children do not have access to coaches and there is no infrastructure.
I want to create an online program that everyone can access. He will specify in detail what the child should learn at what age, how often to train, when to increase the weight of the exercises.
As for women's football, the attendance at the World Cup is always high, but outside the World Cup it is minimal.
It is not enough to invest a lot of money, to give good salaries to girls to dedicate their whole lives to football. That's why you need to increase the quality of the game.
We also need to develop the infrastructure, because at the moment the men's stadiums are fully occupied on weekends, so if women's football develops and grows as much as we want, we will have to build new stadiums.
Arsene Wenger spoke to BBC Sport on the occasion of the publication of his autobiography My Life in Red and White.
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