He's Playing Football Manager in Real Life

Will Still has taken the Football world by storm, after he took the Football Manager world by storm. The 30-year-old is five years younger than Messi and has exploded into the profession by leading a Ligue 1 side in Stade de Reims from the depths of the table to 13 unbeaten matches and counting. This is including a draw away to PSG.

He was born in 1992 and it’s the third team he has coached, it’s a wild story and the video tells it, so I don’t really know exactly what you’re doing down here, unless you’re looking for one of the links below. There are a lot of them, I try to take care of you when I can. The lives are particularly fun if you get a chance.

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The Zealand

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[Rakettivuori]

Wait... He left Reims to join Liege to complete his licence and when done he went back to Reims. Did we just see... A coach get LOANED??

[GTSilvano]

What people forget to emphasize is his IMMENSE EFFORT that he put ind studying and working to become this good. Its not just as simple as most of articles write about him, that he played Football Manager and just strolled to success.

This man works like hell, he puts its so much effort that you do not see covered in press.

Please try to acknowledge this critical part as well

[demba_dd]

As a fan of Reims, I love this guy we were 15th and now we may fight for a top 10 place 😍

[eamonduddy]

Worth mentioning his older brother Edward is 32 and is currently managing Eupen in the top division in Belgium

[joaopedroportugal]

I cant wait for Will Still to become a top manager. His language skills are crucial honestly. Few people have native sounding accents in three languages like Will does. He will be impeccable to team cohesion.

[iLhikiGunz]

Fun fact : the owner of Reims use football manager too for scouting guys like Rajkovic or Itô.

[glede]

This is crazy cuz he was my assistant manager throughout my longest ever save in FM

[IlManaka]

Kind of reminds me of André Vilas Boas, who got into football the same way (Championship Manager, now know as FM). Then he met his new neighbor...non other then Bobby Robson. After various friendly conversations, he began to show him analysis of the games. Robson was so overwhelmed that he brought the 17 year old kid to Porto. André was quite crítical about Robson not putting the beloved Domingos Paciência as forward and convinced Robson to do so. Domingos scored two goals after he gave him that tip and Robson who already was convinced about André's quality helped him with an internship at Ipswich Town.

After years in the ranks at FC Porto he met other student of the late great Robson...José Mourinho. André again learned and after being the assistant manager of Mou, went on to manage the oldest club in Portugal, Académica de Coimbra. Académica were bottom at the time and were fighting not to go down. The kid ended the season in a respectable 10th place. After that he went on to win the Europa League with FCP and the league title.

These last years he is a bit of the grid, but there is a reason...he wants to be the next FC Porto presidential candidate after Pinto da Costa retires. Zea here you have another cool story. 👍

[owencollins]

There’s actually a few managers in Ligue 1 who don’t have their license yet. I believe Montpellier’s manager Romain Pitau is one of them causing his clue to be fined €22, 000 per game as well.

[danielsantarosa]

Then there's me, born in 1996, got into the coaching aspects of the game because of FM and am now starting my level C badge at the Argentinian Football Association.

[neil_.]

Will Will Still still not have a Continental Pro License for a while?

[KFR]

The Mile Jedinak Slander will not stand as a proud Australian im very dissapointed in the once Great Zealand

[patrickwilliams]

Fair play to the lad he's living the dream. It does make me wonder how my life might have turned out if I'd have studied coaching at uni instead of geography because lets be honest here, if his FM sessions were ending at 4am he was a bit of a part-timer! Loving the new content Z, keep it up brother.

[ewie]

I'd love to see his team talks, just throwing water bottles at people while saying "Don't get complacent" before turning to the one player who didn't respond well ajd saying "I have faith you'll improve"

[dghfth]

Spat out my drink when I heard Myerscough College - it's really near to where I live and has a reputation for catering to specific career paths. It's amazing what Will Still has been able to accomplish and I hope he becomes one of Europe's premier managers.

[thargoff]

Beerschot got relegated last season after he was replaced finishing 9th in the (half) season before ...

[tuartGuy]

I think their will be more & more Will Still's coming through, I know football leans on older managers or former players however their are loads of great young coaches, the reason I say this is I went to a uni that has a top football coaching degree where they even pay for your UEFA A/B licences & I was friends with a couple of them who were incredibly bright & some who have gone on to very good coaching jobs. An example who I didn't know personally myself was Joao Sacramento who became Tottenham assistant under Mourinho, hopefully with their sucess football will give more chances to these kind of people instead of just a guy who played in the Prem

[samvangelder]

To add to it, there are 3 brothers - Edward (1990°), William (1992°) and Nicolas (1997°) - who are all kind of on the same page. They all seem to have given up on playing early and chosen to go for it as pro football staff. All of them worked at STVV as staff early on. I think another link to STVV is that as teenagers Will and maybe the others as well played in STVV youth teams. Edward and Nico were in the staff of Croatian manager Ivan Leko in STVV (Sint Truiden), Club Bruges, Antwerp. Edward managed Belgian top flight clubs Charleroi last season and Eupen this season. He has a 40% win rate for now, although his job at Eupen was basicly avoiding relegation which he did. So Will is the one making more off a name for himself, but there is a family effot thing going on.

[michaelewing]

Absolutely loving the new content, keeping it real Z

[houstonunderrated]

Thank you for acknowledging he's Belgian because most of the media just say he's English when he's clearly not only English