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From the bedroom to the dugout... Football Manager
computer genius who bagged top gaffer job in Azerbaijan tells us what it's like to be the world's youngest boss...

When a 25-year-old football fan applied for the
vacant boss's job at Middlesbrough on the
strength of his experience playing Football
Manager on the computer, sports fans across
the world were left chuckling by the brilliant
application letter.

Six years on from John Boileau's
correspondence with Boro chairman Steve
Gibson, dozens of others have followed suit -
not least when hundreds of people applied
recently for the Dumbarton job on the basis of
their prowess playing FIFA 12 .

But for one fan, video game prowess has finally
paid off in the form of a job as manager of
Azerbaijan side FC Baku's 'A' team.

Vugar Huseynzade, a 21-year-old student from
Sweden, landed the job at one of Azerbaijan's
top football clubs - reportedly beating off big
names including France legend Jean-Pierre
Papin to the post - despite his only experience
of managing a team being on his computer.
Yet that devotion to the virtual game - along
with some work experience stint with a sports
agency in the USA - were apparently enough to
land him the job.

"I've always wanted to work in football and have
played Football Manager since 2002,"
Huseynzade told Scandinavian newspaper
Aftonbladet.

Azerbaijan-born Huseynzade took over the job -
equivalent to reserve team manager - after
previous incumbent Kamran Ismayilov left by
mutual consent after more than two years.
But while Ismayilov was a balding, greying
veteran, Huseynzade is anything but. The
newspaper reports that a chance encounter with
the vice-president of FC Baku helped him get a
job at the club as an assistant last February.
When Ismayilov left, Huseynzade was fast-
tracked in to take charge of the 'A' team at the
current Azerbaijani champions.

Do you know he's actually the one on the cover of FM13?
I think I'll keep playing FM, maybe Scunthorpe United will really sign me
Don't try this in Nigeria, you are O.Y.O

Hope he realize that they is no "quit game" in real life

kodded:
Hope he realize that they is no "quit game" in real life

He actually brought the team from the relegation zone to 5th place.

where is Angela? let her come and see a guy dat has played FM for 10yrs. I still dey play am after 4yrs, she dey complain.
#Golden eaglets job on my mind

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Awesome....
make ur passion your job, n you will be working as if u ar playing!...
My quote!

toxiflam:
where is Angela? let her come and see a guy dat has played FM for 10yrs. I still dey play am after 4yrs, she dey complain.
#Golden eaglets job on my mind

Wow....
That's all I can say...