Thierry Henry has admitted he would like to manage Arsenal in the nearest future.
The former France international announced his retirement from playing football on Tuesday and has signed a six-year deal with Sky TV as a pundit.
Henry plans to start his coaching badges next year and hopes to coach the “club of my life” soon. The 36-year-old joined the Gunners in 1999 and went on to become the club’s highest goalscorer.
“That would be a dream come true but that’s not how it works,” Henry told The Daily Telegraph.
“You have to prove yourself first, you have to learn first. You need to be able to understand what it is to be a manager.
“Can you teach, can you be patient? All these problems. People think they are all managers in their own way but it’s not that easy.
“The plan is to start my badges and I guess Arsenal will help me. To pass your badges, you have to work closely with a club and I would like to think it is going to be Arsenal. You know I’m in London when you see me at Arsenal.
“First and foremost, I don’t know how or when but everybody knows I would love to go back to Arsenal in some capacity. But I need to be equipped to go back. I want to learn the process so I have to get my badges and what not. We will see what is going to happen.
“It’s not a secret, everybody talks about me going back to Arsenal and me the same thing but it doesn’t always work like that. First and foremost, I have to make sure that I have everything on board to be able to go back.
“Hard work is all I know. It comes from my dad and the guys I played with when I arrived in the national team. Zinedine Zidane, Youri Djorkaeff, Lilian Thuram, Marcel Desailly, Emmanuel Petit, Fabian Barthez, that’s how they were and that’s what they taught me so I took it on board because you can only be the reflection of your education. That’s the way I was educated so that’s what I’m going to try to pass on.”
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