This 29-year-old pro football manager trained on Football Manager
pcgamer.comWilliam Still is the assistant manager of one of the great French sides, Stade de Reims, before which he was the manager of Belgian sides Lierse and Beerschot. All of which is remarkable given that he's 29 years of age, which for a professional football manager is extremely young.
Still's had an interesting route through football, and Sportsbible recently ran a profile about how he went from coaching Preston's U14 side to facing Lionel Messi on his PSG debut. Still eventually chose to focus on coaching over his own playing ambitions (he also played professionally when younger), but one of the things he credits for his fascination with this side of the game is the many hours spent on football management games with his older brother Edward. Edward Still, by the way, is himself coach at Belgian side Sporting Charleroi.
Amusingly enough, their parents banned videogames when the pair were young, but nothing would stop the duo playing their then-favourite game: the EA-developed F.A. Premier League Football Manager 2001.
«We smashed that CD out of the disk tray,» Still says. «We played it for so many hours. And we never bought the new version. We played that disk until it couldn't read anymore.»
Eventually the pair moved onto Championship Manager, the Sports Interactive-developed predecessor to Football Manager, which Still would play until the wee hours.
«The worst phase came when I was about 14 or 15,» Still says. «You would look at the clock and it was 10 pm and you'd say, 'Oh I'll go to bed at midnight.' Then the next thing you know it's like half four in the morning. And then you wake up thinking, 'Why the hell did I do that?' But yeah, there was a point where it became a bit over the top.»
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