Soccer has always been a game of many surprises: may it be its high mounting prize money, or its in-ground chit chats that become more than critical some times. Close followers of professional football know how difficult it is to become a manager of a professional soccer club, especially in the time when Clubs like Chelsea and QPR have fired their managers over deprived results. An interesting event happened last month, when Vugar Huseynzade, a 21 year old, was appointed as the manager of Azerbaijan Premier League club FC Baku. Apart from his age, his only quality, as far as the game of soccer is concerned, is his mastery with a virtual soccer simulator game Football Manager. Yes, he used to play a video game like virtual simulator and grasp the knowledge of the game, perhaps, his knowledge found to be so perfect that FC Baku’s think-tank decided to crown him as their manger. He even defeated his close rival for the job Jean-Pierre Papin, who was 1991 European Player of the Year. … [Read more...]