Thomas Tuchel's fascinating coaching journey from Mainz to England manager
Thomas Tuchel spent the best part of a decade honing his craft on Bundesliga touchlines with Mainz and Borussia Dortmund, before reaching consecutive UEFA Champions League finals with Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea. He then got his hands on the Bundesliga title with Bayern Munich and is now England manager in the next chapter of his compelling coaching journey.
A defender by trade, Tuchel joined the Augsburg youth academy as a teenager but was released at the age of 19 without ever making the first team. He subsequently had a short-lived spell with the Stuttgarter Kickers in Bundesliga 2, making eight outings at that level, before joining third-tier outfit Ulm.
There he played 68 times before being forced to hang up his boots for good due to a serious knee injury at the age of 24 in 1998.
Eager to prove to himself that he could be a success away from the football pitch, Tuchel studied Business Administration at university, working as a waiter in a bar at the same time.
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