Euro 2016 managers vintage football sticker special: A look back at the playing days of all the international bosses headed to France this summer
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Some of them have been there, a few of them have done it - but do the managers who are guiding 24 national sides at Euro 2016 really know what their players are going through?
Here,let's take a look at the men in the dugout when they too were idolised as players and the football cards representing them that were swapped and bartered for by children at the time.
Group A
France – Didier Deschamps
Deschamps enjoyed a lot of success with a number of teams he played in. He started his career at Nantes where he made 111 appearances. He left for Marseille in 1989. While there he won the French league twice before claiming the Champions League trophy.
But it was during his time with Juventus that he earned legendary status among their supporters. He was part of a side that won Serie A three times, Coppa Italia once, the Champions League once as well as one Intercontinental Cup, one UEFA Super Cup and one UEFA Intertoto Cup.
He has made a steady amount of progress as a manager, too. He has been in charge of France since 2012 and guided them to the quarter-finals of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
Win percentage as France manager: 58.70 per cent
Switzerland – Vladimir Petkovic
Although Petkovic began his career in Bosnia, he spent most of his years playing in Switzerland. He never reached 100 appearances with any club - 87 at Chur 97 was the closest he came.
He eventually retired from playing in 1997 and became a coach. He took his first job as player-coach with Swiss club Bellinzona before taking over at Malcantone Agno, where he stayed from 1999 to 2004.
He was manager of Lazio before he was offered the Switzerland job. The Coppa Italia was his one piece of silverware at the Serie A club.
Win percentage as Switzerland manager: 52.94
Albania – Gianni De Biasi
De Biasi's playing career lasted 25 years. His career was never destined for greatness after he was loaned by Inter Milan to Reggiana. From there he failed to impress before he found his place at Brescia. There he made 161 appearances, scoring 14 goals.
His managerial career, which began in 1990, also took time to get established - and is a work in progress. In 2011, De Biasi took over at Albania after a disappointing season in charge of Napoli.
He became the first coach to lead Albania to European Championship qualification when they secured their passage to France last October.
Win percentage as Albania manager: 39.47 per cent.
Romania – Anghel Iordanescu
Iordandescu was with only two clubs when he was playing: Steaua Bucharest and OFI Crete. He first joined Steaua Bucharest in 1968 and didn't leave until 1982.
As a manager, he has been around the domestic and international circuit. He first took the Romania job in 1993 and lead his side to the 1994 World Cup in the United States where Romania made it to the quarter-finals.
He continued his good work by guiding them to Euro 1996 in England and France for the 1998 World Cup. He managed them again between 2002 and 2004, and came out of retirement to take charge of them again in 2014.
Win percentage as Romania manager: 41.67 per cent.
Group B
England - Roy Hodgson
It is fair to say that Hodgson's managerial career certainly doesn't reflect his playing days. While he did fairly well at Crystal Palace, where he first started, he couldn't force his way into the team regularly. He then spent about ten years touring the lower leagues before becoming a manager in 1976.
He started his managerial career at Swedish side Halmstads BK in 1976 where his time there is still remembered vividly. The year before he had taken over, Halmstad had struggled against relegation.
He managed to guide them to promotion in 1976 and 1979. He was also successful with Malmo - another Swedish club. As an international manager, he managed to guide Switzerland to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup.
He became England manager in 2012 after periods at Fulham, Liverpool and West Brom.
Win percentage as England manager: 60 per cent.
Russia – Leonid Slutsky
Slutsky had to give up of his dream of having a long and successful playing career when he fell out of a tree and injured himself when attempting to rescue a neighbour's cat as a youngster.
In more recent times, particularly after the 2014 World Cup, he has been seen as Russia's main hope. He replaced Fabio Capello as head coach of Russia despite still being in charge of CSKA Moscow. Nothing has changed since. Slutsky won this season's Russian Premier League and will be aiming to take Russia as far as possible at Euro 2016.
Win percentage as Russia manager: 70
Slovakia – Jan Kozak
As a player, Kozak spent the majority of his career in Slovakia. He made 149 appearances for FC Lokomotiv Kosice, scoring 34 goals from midfield between 1975 and 1980.
He became the manager of Lokomotiv Kosice in 1993 but moved on to Kosice in 1995. Notably, he managed to guide his Kosice side to the Group Stages of the Champions League in 1997-98 season. He took over as Slovakia manager in 2013 and lead them to Euro 2016 qualification.
Win percentage as Slovakia manager: 58.62 per cent.
Wales – Chris Coleman
Coleman earned respect throughout his playing career as a defender who wouldn't back out of a challenge. He made well over 100 appearances for Swansea City (160), Crystal Palace (154) and Fulham (136). Sadly, though, his playing career was ended when he broke his leg in a car crash at the age of 32.
Fulham offered him a role in coaching underneath then manager Jean Tigana in October 2002. He later took the manager's job on a permanent basis and managed to avoid relegation from the Premier League.
Since 2012, he has been the voice of Wales team following the death of his friend Gary Speed in 2011. Wales qualified for Euro 2016 in October last year and confirmed their involvement in a major international tournament for the first time since 1958.
Win percentage as Wales manager: 35.5 per cent.
Group C
Germany – Joachim Low
Low was best remembered as a footballer during his time playing for SC Freiburg. He started his career with the south-western German side in 1978. He left to join Stuttgart in 1980 but after stints at other clubs, he returned to SC Freiburg in 1985. He remained with them for four more years before his playing career started to come to an end.
His managerial record before he took charge over Germany was average but he barely stayed more than a year wherever he went. Since he became head coach of Germany in 2006, he has lead his country to one runners-up and one third-place finish at the European Championship (2008, 2012).
He won the World Cup with Germany in 2014.
Win percentage as Germany manager: 66.67 per cent.
Northern Ireland – Michael O’Neill
O'Neill had a fairly understated career as a footballer. He started playing in his home of Northern Ireland in 1984 when he joined Coleraine. While he wasn't the most successful, he was well travelled.
He moved to England as a young player after Newcastle United signed him in 1987. He then mixed his time between England and Scotland before going to the United States for a year in 2001 where he played for Portland Timbers.
He became head coach of Northern Ireland in 2011 after managing Brechin City and Shamrock Rovers. He is leading them to their first ever European Championship after they beat Greece 3-1 at Windsor Park last October.
Win percentage as Northern Ireland manager: 26.47 per cent.
Poland – Adam Nawalka
Nawalka began his career as a youngster at Wisla Krakow in Poland in 1975. He remained with them until 1985 when he left having made 190 appearances. In 1978, he started to suffer from injury and made a decision to play for semi-professional American side Polish-American Eagles.
He returned to Poland some time after that to get his coaching qualifications. His first job was manager of Swit Krzeszowice before he took over at Wisla Krakow. He wasn't offered the Poland job until 2013 - nearly 20 years after he had become a manager.
Win percentage as Poland manager: 59.09 per cent.
Ukraine – Mykhaylo Fomenko
Fomenko was crucial to Dynamo Kyiv between 1972 and 1979. While at Dynamo Kyiv, playing as a defender, Fomenko won the Soviet Top League three times, the Soviet Cup twice, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and one UEFA Super Cup.
He was also a runner-up at the European Championship with USSR in 1972 when they were beaten 3-0 by West Germany in Belgium. He was given the Ukraine job in 2012 and has won 22 games out of 32.
Win percentage as Ukraine manager: 68.75 per cent.
Group D
Croatia – Ante Cacic
Cacic has been a football manager since 1986 and was one of the first group of 10 football coaches in Croatia to get an early UEFA Pro Licence.
He is highly regarded in Croatia and has managed a total of 13 clubs across Eastern Europe. Cacic was given the opportunity to manage Croatia when Niko Kovac was dismissed due to poor results during qualification for the European Championship in France.
Win percentage as Croatia manager: 80 per cent.
Czech Republic – Pavel Vrba
While Vrba played for a number of clubs between 1981 and 1994, he is better known for his time as a coach. He has also been more successful as a coach. He lead FC Viktoria Plzen to two league titles, one cup title and three seasons in the Europa League from 2008 to 2013.
In 2014, he was rewarded with a chance to manage his home nation of Czech Republic. So far he has won eight of 19 games as national coach.
Win percentage as Czech Republic manager: 42.11 per cent.
Spain – Vicente del Bosque
Unlike many of his fellow coaches who will be at the European Championship this summer, Del Bosque did play to a very high standard. The 65-year-old started his career at Plus Ultra before signing for Real Madrid in 1968. He made 445 appearances as a midfielder and scored 25 times. He won La Liga five times and the Copa del Rey four times.
He has been just as successful as a manager as he was as a player. He retired from playing in 1984 and swiftly moved into coaching. At first he was part of the coaching staff at Real Madrid's B team Castilla. He has had three stints as Real manager and another as caretaker. Notably, he has won the Champions League twice.
He has managed Spain since 2008. His relationship with the supporters came under pressure after Spain were dumped out of the 2014 World Cup group stages. However, guiding Spain to World Cup glory and European Championship success in 2010 and 2012 respectively probably just about eased the pain.
Win percentage as Spain manager: 77.57 per cent.
Turkey – Fatih Terim
Terim has got used to moving around more as a manager than he did as a player. A defender by trade, he played for Adana Demirspor and Galatasaray. It was at Galatasaray where he enjoyed great success as a player. He won the Turkish Cup three times and the Turkish Super Cup once.
Things only got better for him when he became manager of Galatasaray in 1996. In his first spell (1996-2000), he won four Turkish Super Lig's. He also won two Turkish Cups and one UEFA Cup during that time.
He returned there in 2002 but left in 2004 without winning more silverware. Indeed, he was also Galatasaray manager from 2011 to 2013. This time he won the league two more times, as well as another two Turkish Super Cups.
He took over as head coach of Turkey in 2013 for the third time. He couldn't get his side to the 2014 World Cup but did succeed in meeting his objective of getting Turkey to France this summer.
Win percentage as Turkey manager: 66.67 per cent.
Group E
Belgium – Marc Wilmots
Wilmots enjoyed a lengthy career, and the 47-year-old only stopped playing in 2003 when he retired while at Schalke 04. He has been responsible for Belgium's rise up the FIFA world rankings and has carefully selected his players ahead of Euro 2016.
His competitive record with the national team is also very strong. Since May 2012, when Wilmots was appointed as head coach, he has won 19 competitive games out of 25.
Win percentage as Belgium manager: 76 per cent.
Italy – Antonio Conte
Conte, very similar to a large number of other managers at this summer's European Championship, played for no more than two clubs. He started his life as a footballer with Lecce - the place he was born and grew up. He was there from 1985 to 1991.
He moved to Juventus in 1991 but didn't leave until 2004. He became an integral part of the Old Lady's central midfield. With Juventus he won a total of 15 trophies, including one Champions League title and five Serie A crowns.
His managerial career has also reaped rewards. He won the Serie A three times with Juventus from 2011 to 2014. He became Italy's head coach in 2014 and will hope to atone for the errors made at the World Cup that year when the national side crashed out at the group stages under former manager Cesare Prandelli. The Chelsea job awaits him when he returns from France.
Win percentage as Italy manager: 50 per cent.
Ireland – Martin O’Neill
Martin O'Neill is somewhat of an anomaly. While most managers listed here have achieved vast amounts of success as a manager or have done fairly well at managing and playing, O;'Neill provides the example for the man who had a sensational career as a player but hasn't replicated that as a coach.
That sounds harsh until you consider how brilliant he was for Nottingham Forest between 1971 and 1981. A major part of Brian Clough's Forest, he won back-to-back European Cups in 1979 and 1980 and was part of the side that won the First Division in 1978 despite having been in the Second Division the season before.
He started his managerial career at Grantham Town in 1987. He moved from there to part-time Shepsted Charterhouse, Wycombe Wanderers, Norwich City before finding his feet at Leicester City and Filbert Street. He guided them to First Division play-off victory in 1996 and went on to win the League Cup in 1997 and 2000.
At Celtic, where he stayed for five years from 2000, he won the Scottish Premiership three times. He also guided them to a runners-up finish in the UEFA Cup in 2003. He has been the head coach of Ireland since 2013.
Win percentage as Ireland manager: 41.67 per cent.
Sweden – Erik Hamren
Hamren is the only manager, who isn't retiring, going to Euro 2016 without a job to return to.
The 58-year-old had little experience of playing football before becoming a manager. He grew up in Ljusdal in Sweden and played for Ljusdal IF. He got his first opportunity in football management in 1987 at Enkopings SK. But it wasn't until 1996, when he was manager of AIK, that he started to win trophies. AIK won back-to-back Swedish Cups in 1996 and 1997 with him in charge.
He later moved to Denmark and Norway where he won league titles with Aalborg BK and Rosenborg. In 2009, he was appointed as head coach of Sweden. He has lead his side to victory 43 times out of 76. He has never failed to qualify for the European Championship.
Win percentage as Sweden manager: 56.58 per cent.
Group F
Austria – Marcel Koller
Koller played his entire career for Swiss side Grasshoppers Zurich. He made 428 appearances and scored 59 goals during his 21 years which went from 1978 to 1997.
He made a swift transition from playing to management. Not even a year had passed before Koller was in charge of FC Wil. Despite his rather steady career as a player, his life as a manager wasn't going to plan until he moved to VfL Bochum in 2005.
It was his job to return them to the Bundesliga after they were relegated into the Second Bundesliga. Koller managed to achieve that feat with five games left of the following league season.
He was appointed as manager of Austria in 2011. Euro 2016 will be the first tournament that Austria have qualified for since the 1998 World Cup in France. Austria's only previous European Championship appearance came when they co-hosted the 2008 tournament with Switzerland.
Win percentage as Austria manager: 54.05 per cent.
Hungary – Bernd Storck
Known as quite an eccentric manager, Storck's career as a footballer was never short of thrills. He began his playing career as a defender for VfL Bochum in 1981. He only made 24 appearances before Borussia Dortmund managed to snare him. His biggest achievement as a player was when he helped Dortmund win the 1988-89 DFB-Pokal. In total he made 146 appearances for Dortmund before retiring in 1989.
Initially, he took a number of assistant manager jobs at Hertha BSC, Wolfsburg, FK Partizan and Dortmund. He took on two roles at once in 2008 when he became manager of FC Almaty and Kazakhstan.
He was sacked as manager of Kazakhstan in October 2010 after a particularly bad start to their Euro 2012 qualification campaign. He was appointed head coach of Hungary in July 2015 following the resignation of Pal Dardai. Storck's successful campaign, which ended with a play-off win over Norway, secured a place in the European Championship finals for the first time since Euro 1972.
Win percentage as Hungary manager: 37.50 per cent.
Iceland – Lars Lagerback
Lagerback's playing career spanned 14 years in total but wasn't full of success or accolades. He joined Alby FF in 1960 but left in 1969 before moving to Gimonas CK in 1970 in Sweden.
He began his managerial career in 1977 at Kilafors IF. He subsequently moved from there to Arbra BK and Hudiksvalls ABK before joining the Swedish Football Association in 1990. He began by taking charge of the Sweden U21s. He took full control of the senior team in 2000 but resigned in 2009 when Sweden failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
He took charge of Nigeria shortly before the 2010 World Cup but left after a poor display by his team. Lagerback became the head coach of Iceland in 2011. After Euro 2016 he will retire and his assistant Heimir Hallgrimsson will take over.
Win percentage as Iceland manager: 71.43 per cent.
Portugal – Fernando Santos
Santos, someone who isn't afraid of making bold decisions or controlling big names such as Cristiano Ronaldo, decided to leave Benfica at the age of 16 to continue to his development elsewhere. He made his debut for Portuguese side Estoril in 1973. He stayed there for six years before leaving to join Maritimo in 1980. He returned to Estoril for a further seven years shortly after he had joined Maritimo.
He would stay at Estoril for 17 more years though six of those (1988-1994) were as manager of the first team. It was then that Santos got a taste of football management. He moved to Porto in 1998 and won the Primeira Liga in his first season. He then won two Portugal Cups over consecutive seasons.
He was appointed head coach of Greece in 2010. He guided them to Euro 2012 qualification and lead them to the knockout stages of a World Cup for the first time ever at the 2014 tournament in Brazil. The achievement was soured when Santos was sent off by referee Ben Williams for apparent dissent shortly before the start of the penalty shootout against Costa Rica, which Greece lost 3-5.
Santos' contract expired the next day. Just months later, he was chosen as the new Portugal manager after Paulo Bento was sacked due to his team's poor performance in Brazil.
Win percentage as Portugal manager: 68.75 per cent.
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