Meet William Still — the youngest manager in all of Europe's major football leagues. Despite being only 30, his passion and commitment to the game have inspired his team to great heights.
HIS STORY: Still went from obsessing over the Football Manager computer game as a teenager to being a head coach at 24, and now is in charge of Stade de Reims in France’s top division.
In his own words, as he wrote for The Coaches’ Voice, “At basically any point in my life, if someone had told me I’d be the head coach of a Ligue 1 side at 30, I’d have told them to punch me in the face. It would have been a totally ridiculous suggestion.”
He’d been given six games before the World Cup break to prove himself as caretaker manager. He went unbeaten, guiding the team out of the relegation zone and all the way up to 11th. The owners were happy – and probably more than a little surprised.
Still was appointed full-time manager. But there was still one problem: he hasn’t completed his elite coachi...
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