‘Grateful to you all’ – Tuchel finally reveals why he’s so grateful to the club and Chelsea fans
Seems the Blues manager is enjoying life at Chelsea after months of sensational career at Stamford Bridge.
The new Chelsea manager has already won the Champions league and the Super cup in just months in Charge of Chelsea Football Club.
However, following his massive great spells at Chelsea, The Blues boss Thomas Tuchel has revealed that he’s grateful to be manager of Chelsea and rise up to a high level.
Tuchel’s playing career was cut short at the age of 24 due to a serious knee injury, and he was playing in the lower league in France.
The Blues boss has now revealed just how he rose up to being a manager, and is grateful for the second chance to succeed in football.
“Only injuries could prevent me from having a career…in the second division!” Tuchel said with a smile, according to the official club website.
“It is a bit hard to talk about my [playing] career because it ended before it even started, with some games in the second and third division. That was pretty much it.
“I was not bad throughout the youth stages and I tried to fulfil my dream to become a professional player, but it was different times. There were no cameras in the second division in Germany when I played some games.
“Then I got injured and had to refocus which was pretty hard. It was a dream that crashed and I did not know what to do. It was even painful to go into a stadium and watch games because it did not feel right to not be a part of it.”
Tuchel found time to graduate from school with a business degree before he found the passion to go into football again.
“It was also important to me to finish studying, to make a point to myself that I can finish something that I don’t really like, just for pure rational reasons.
“But when I experienced again the feeling to be on the pitch and to have the chance to be the head coach of the Under-14s and the Under-15s in the Stuttgart academy, that really made me happy.
“Even if there was not a lot of money involved, it was enough just to do this because it made me happy and I felt like I am in the right place, and I got a lot of support from many people on my way and without that it is not possible.
“With every licence I did I got more support and I was a bit more experienced, and I got this gift from life to be promoted and promoted and promoted, and that is why I am very grateful.”
He added: “I am just grateful to have the chance to do this as a job.”