CAN you figure out which current manager is pictured below with Paul Pogba in an Under-16s match between France and Germany in 2009?
Here’s a hint — he’s German and currently managing a Premier League side. Check out the pic below before scrolling any further if you want to take a guess before the big reveal.
Yes, it’s Brighton’s head coach Fabian Hurzeler wearing the No. 10 jersey for Germany. You’re a certified football genius if you managed to snuff that one out!
Brownie points if you also managed to identify the France No. 11 in the background, who is former Chelsea wonderkid Gael Kakuta.
Hurzeler, 32, featured for Germany’s national youth teams before his decade-long career in the lower tiers of German football.
At the age of 29, Hurzeler became the youngest-ever head coach in the 2.Bundesliga when he was named as St. Pauli’s head coach in December 2022.
After securing promotion to the Bundesliga in 2024, Hurzeler replaced Roberto De Zerbi as Brighton manager.
Meanwhile, Pogba, 32, recently returned to professional football with AS Monaco after serving an 18-month doping ban.
Sixteen years after that picture was snapped, both have taken drastically different paths in football.
Pogba went on to win the 2018 World Cup for France and has a runner-up Champions League medal from his time at Juventus.
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Texas-born Hurzeler is now touted as one of the most promising young managers with a bright future ahead of him.
Since joining Brighton, he has maintained a 47 per cent winning record.
The Seagulls finished eighth in Hurzeler’s maiden season in charge and are currently seventh in the Premier League.
