Not all managers are cool, however Julian Nagelsmann is cool. Very cool.
Partly as a result of he’s younger and stylish, but in addition as a result of he’s so tactical for his younger age and has continually proved to give you the option to hold up with soccer’s largest title so early in his profession.
No soccer fan grows up as a little one dreaming of being a coach, and that is comprehensible. However watching Nagelsmann make his Bundesliga debut as head coach in only 28 years and lead Hoffenheim to the Champions League – all whereas carrying black garments on the touchline – helps change the rhetoric.
German has a severe costume assortment | ODD ANDERSEN / Getty Photographs
Since then, his heroism with RB Leipzig for 2 seasons has positioned him at the highest of the shortlist for just about all high golf equipment in the hunt for a brand new supervisor. Nonetheless, Bayern Munich has received the race and Nagelsmann will be part of Die Roten to exchange Hansi Flick for the 2021/22 season.
90min seems to be again on a few of his finest moments with RB Leipzig.
Nagelsmann was the fashionable new supervisor of the fashionable new membership in RB Leipzig Matthias Hangst / Getty Photographs
Though RB Leipzig was not the largest title in world soccer, it had introduced up the shape of European soccer sufficient for them to really feel like a major challenge.
The membership selected to place their belief in Nagelsmann – then 30 years – was a dangerous determination with different out there alternate options, however one which paid off. For Nagelsmann, it was monumental to belief the reins of such an esteemed soccer line-up and instantly flagged him as soccer’s subsequent large factor.
Nagelsmann bought off to a sizzling begin in Leipzig | JOHN MACDOUGALL / Getty Photographs
Ignoring pleasant matches earlier than the season, it’s at all times vital to start when the precise season rolls round.
Away from house, Nagelsmann’s aspect ensured one of the best doable begin by recording a 4-0 victory over Union Berlin. By no means the strongest competitors they’d face, however nonetheless a crucial match the place feelings run excessive in the will to begin a brand new period correctly.
RB Leipzig rivade Mainz | JOHN MACDOUGALL / Getty Photographs
After a robust begin to the Bundesliga season that had solely seen Leipzig lose twice earlier than a four-match unprofitable run within the league, Nagelsmann’s aspect bounced again in November 2019 once they put eight previous Mainz.
Timo Werner scored a hat-trick for targets and assists when Die Roten Bullen sprang up, proper on the again of a 6-1 victory towards Wolfsburg within the DFB-Pokal simply just a few days earlier.
The end result stands as a margin of victory for the membership for Leipzig and would require a monumental effort to enhance.
Nagelsmann utterly performed out Mourinho’s Spurs | RONNY HARTMANN / Getty Photographs
Throughout his first season on the helm, Nagelsmann overtook Jose Mourinho’s Tottenham of their 16s within the Champions League with a 4-0 lead over two legs.
Not solely was it monumental in outclassing a pedigree supervisor like Mourinho, nevertheless it additionally made Nagelsmann the youngest coach to win a match within the knockout phases of the competitors, additional breaking the shape of elite soccer administration.
Reaching the final 4 was a large achievement David Ramos / Getty Photographs
If it was not sufficient to play a Mourinho workforce in a European knockout step, Nagelsmann took Die Roten Bullen even additional through the 2019/20 season once they reached the semi-finals of the Champions League.
An 11-year-old membership that makes the final 4 within the Champions League is a sufficiently nice achievement in itself, however Nagelsmann added one other layer to the achievement by changing into the youngest coach to succeed in that stage.
Going thus far into the competitors is not any joke and is an indication of a high supervisor.
Nagelsmann was first faraway from the recreation aspect by Tuchel | RONNY HARTMANN / Getty Photographs
Nagelsmann has lengthy been referred to as “child Mourinho” nevertheless it was underneath Thomas Tuchel the place he took his first steps as a soccer coach.
Tuchel used Nagelsmann as a scout at Augsburg II in 2008 and after being overwhelmed by his former boss within the semi-finals of the Champions League 2020, he managed to take revenge in 2020/21.
Leipzig beat Tuchel’s Paris Saint-Germain in November 2020 through the Champions League group stage in a 2-1 victory, which in the end proved to be the important thing together with a victory towards Manchester United to be certain that they superior to the knockout phases.
