Arsène Wenger reflects on FIFA Under-15 World Cup and Festival

The first thing that comes out is the image of happiness and excitement because to see the whole world here together and organize a tournament with basically 190 teams and do that all in one week and get them to have the luck to live in the same place and the players look so happy so committed and to see the whole world like that united and communicating dancing playing is it's just what football should do always it's working perfectly well we wanted to be the reduced number not 11 against 11 because the difference between the countries would be too big we wanted as well shorter games you know that everybody can meet everybody in life when you love a sport you want to know how good you are so you have to play against everybody and so the teams the smaller countries play against the bigger countries and they can go home after, certainly full of dreams and of happy moments, but as well they can know what they have to focus on to improve because they know where they stand. That is as well for us, for FIFA development something that is very important. I don't believe that any country is entitled to have more success than others. The number plays a part, but we have seen many smaller countries competing with a bigger countries so that is important that they meet and like i told you they can compete when you compete you discover basically oh finally i'm better than i thought and if i do this i do that i can compete against the best so that's the opportunity you want an opportunity to develop when you say give every talent a chance it's about opportunity. Here they can come play and discover that they have the needed quality to exist at the top level. Of course it's not just the the players we're bringing to this tournament but also 189 coaches head coaches and and their assistants also probably for many of them the first chance to really test themselves on a scale like this and for us it was really important to bring those coaches together to provide them also with some some education some developmental opportunities and of course very fortunate we can bring Arsène to give them some advice and guidance on how to develop their own skills as well as coaches Fundamentally for the day-to-day management of the training sessions and the preparation of the development of the players. All of this is what we wanted. is higher when you look at the physical performances for example the last world cup try to be in the final part of the game but you work as well when you win the ball on your vision to play forward the vision in depth we want to unite the world 189 and these are seven everywhere Use of facilities, competitive balance, it's too big a difference, 11 against 11, one team. Both you see make you win and play. So I'm convinced that two more players. That we don't spend too much time on substitutions. Fewer level, so basically you have two competitions. Thank you all for being here today against the desk.