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The top football (soccer) club in Azerbaijan has a 21-year-old video game player as its new manager (coach). They gamer Vugar Huseynzade of 1991 European Footballer of the Year Jean-Pierre Papin. The club is Baku FC, which is top of the Azerbaijan league. It gave the position of manager of its "A" team (the reserves) to locally- Huseynzade instead of the experienced Frenchman Papin. The club's decision has the football world. All will now be on Huseynzade to see how he can manage the team. The young manager told reporters his ambition is to get his team into the Europa League, which is the -biggest tournament in European football.

Mr Huseynzade has a but interesting footballing background. He was born in Baku in 1991 and up supporting Baku FC. He went to high school in Sweden and about a different kind of soccer. He then studied at Boston University in the USA, where he in Business Management. For the ten years he has been to the video game Football Manager. Baku FC him in February 2012 as an advisor. The club really liked his knowledge of the game in leading his Football Manager teams to . Huseynzade said that managing football teams in simulation games him valuable on-the-job skills and training. He added that he couldn't wait to select his first and win his first game.