Most Promising Football Managers

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Julian Nagelsmann will take over the manager position at Bayern Munich in the summer, at the age of only 33. He is one of the most promising football managers right now who has already achieved huge successes with his former clubs. While other young colleagues might need to wait a few more years to become as famous as him. 

It looks like top managers have become younger and younger in the last few years. Of course we can still find mostly more experienced managers at the biggest clubs, but from time to time younger ones appear as well. Some of them were successful football players before while others have achieved great results only as managers. Like Julian Nagelsmann who has led RB Leipzig into the last four in last year’s Champions League and made a top team from them. But we can find other great young managers all over Europe, let’s see the best of them.

Most Promising Football Managers

1. Julian Nagelsmann

Julian Nagelsmann had to give up his football career at the age of only 20 after a knee injury but he still wanted to stay in the sport. So he became a coach and worked with different youth teams at 1899 Hoffenheim. He was appointed as the manager of the senior team in 2016, at the age of only 28, becoming the youngest coach in Bundesliga history. Nagelsmann led the team to the fourth place in the 2016-17 season. Which also meant that the team qualified for the Champions League for the first time in the club’s history.

It wasn’t surprising that RB Leipzig signed him in 2019 where he could continue his successes. He led the team to the semi-finals in the Champions League while Leipzig also finished third in the Bundesliga. This season the team was performing even better in the domestic league but couldn’t keep up with Bayern Munich. Who will be the young manager’s new club from next season where he is likely to achieve more great results. But Nageslmann can still win a trophy with his current club in the German Cup final against Borussia Dortmund. Where online sportsbooks in Germany offer the same odds for both teams’ victory.

2. Marco Rose

Staying in Germany we can find another great manager in the most promising football managers. 44-year-old Marco Rose, who is the manager of Borussia Monchengladbach. But only until the end of this season, as he will join Borussia Dortmund in the summer. Rose also started as a player. He was a defender at Mainz 05 between 2002 and 2010 when Jurgen Klopp was the manager. Then he returned back to his first club, Lokomotive Leipzig to work as an assistant coach.

Before joining Red Bull Salzburg as a manager in 2017. Rose guided the team to the semi-finals of the Europa League in his first season. After defeating much stronger teams such as Borussia Dortmund and Lazio on the way. His results earned him a job at Monchengladbach in 2019 where he also achieved good results. The team was fourth last season and made their first appearance in the Champions League.

3. Julien Stephan

In France we find 40-year-old Julien Stephen, who worked as a manager of Rennes until this March. His name might not be as familiar as the others, but he is another talented manager. Who also led his team to the Champions League after finishing third in the French top league last season. Stephan gave up his player career to work as a manager in his late 20s and started to work at Rennes in 2015. He became an interim manager of the first team in 2018 and stayed there following his great results with the team. As the team also won the French Cup under his management in 2019. Rennes’ great run ended this season, they are only in 7th place in the league, which also led to Stephan’s resignation. But hopefully we can soon see this promising French manager at another club.

4. Ruben Amorim

Ruben Amorim had a successful career as a player after winning 10 titles with his last club, Benfica between 2008 and 2017. He started to work as a manager at Braga in 2019 after earning his coaching license. Amorim won the league cup with the team only three weeks after his appointment and defeated all three top clubs, Sporting, Porto and Benfica with his team. His job was so impressive that Sporting offered him a contract after only his two-months experience in the top league. Since then Amorim has been working for the club successfully. Sporting leads the table so confidently that online gambling sites in Germany highly favor them to win the title. While the still only 36-year-old manager can follow the steps of other famous Portuguese colleagues like Jose Mourinho, Fernando Santos or Nuno Espirito Santo.

5. Simone Inzaghi

In Italy big clubs usually trust more experienced and successful managers to lead the teams. But this trend has seemed to change a bit. Former classic player, Andrea Pirlo was appointed as the manager of Juventus in 2020. Gennaro Gattuso has been leading Napoli since last year. And Simone Inzaghi, the younger brother of former top striker Filippo Inzaghi has been the manager of Lazio since 2016.  He also played at the club in most of his player career but Inzaghi might achieve bigger successes as a manager now. As he has already won the 2019 Italian Cup with the team beside two Italian Supercup titles. Lazio also finished 4th last season in the Serie A, earning a place in the Champions League.

+ Mikel Arteta

Though Arsenal are only 9th place in the Premier League, we also have to mention Mikel Arteta in our list of the most promising football managers. He took over the team in a critical time last year but still managed to win two cups, the FA Cup and the Community Shield in 2020. This season the team has been struggling again but reached the semi-final of the Europa League. Winning the tournament might be the only chance for the Gunners to play in the Champions League next season. And probably to save Arteta’s job at the club. The Spanish manager has worked beside Pep Guardiola at Manchester City and his teacher’s style can be seen in his work. Which might bring more successes for Arteta in the next few years.

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