Still They changed the whole of France with a Reims team that had not known defeat for nineteen days. The 30-year-old coach, the youngest of the five major leaguers, has practiced without a license until now. In return, the club will have to pay a fine of 25,000 euros per week, raising the bill to half a million euros for sitting in the bank without a card, largely due to bureaucratic hurdles in obtaining it.
Training courses, subjects and diplomas make it difficult for coaches to break out from the base unless their surname gives them the first impulse, as happened in Zidane. This was not Will Still’s experience, which was unique among the few. Without a career as a footballer, he became fond of the computer game Football Manager in his youth, where he became passionate about strategy and tactics. The beginning of everything.
Hours and hours of being hooked on the same thing: “I became obsessed with Football Manager, which made me want to train. My brother and I played non-stop. We made a squad, we organized training sessions… ”, he explained then Still, who never thought that one game could influence his career so much. Everything was early and unimaginable for this coach, which was by no means in fashion in Europe.
Still he worked as a video analyst in a humble team in Belgium before moving to Reims, where he worked as an assistant Oscar Garcia. When the Catalan coach left in October last year, the club bet on him as a temporary, until first impressions led him to sign his first contract. Since then he has managed nineteen league games: nine wins, ten draws and no losses.
Of those nine wins, seven were at home, testament to the communion that now exists between Reims and its fans. The team, which until recently was trying to escape the relegation zone, now seeks to reach the European zone. Only four points behind the Conference League and most of the blame lies with the work of Still, a coach who knows how to take advantage of his opportunity. Reims triumphs by paying a fine for him.
Source: La Verdad
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