Thomas Tuchel's 1992 yearbook shares fascinating insight into new England boss

Thomas Tuchel has been unveiled arsenic the caller England manager and his 1992 yearbook introduction provides plentifulness of penetration into the erstwhile Chelsea and Bayern Munich boss

New England brag Thomas Tuchel had an ‘eye for the older ladies’ erstwhile helium was a teenager, according to his friends astatine the time.

His introduction successful the 1992 yearbook from Simpert-Kraemer Gymnasium successful his hometown of Krumbach made a racy gag astir his emotion life. It besides told of his aboriginal committedness successful football, and his funny ‘60s’ sensation successful fashion.

Described arsenic ‘extravagantly dressed’ successful acheronian glasses, hairband and flares, 6th signifier friends wrote: “He has a playful arrogance that made america deliberation that helium had a declaration with FC Bayern successful his pocket.

“But we could not lucifer him successful presumption of punctuality, enthusiasm for homework and friendliness.”

In the bawdy notation to his emotion life, they add: “He learned to sledge connected the older models.” They joked that young Tuchel, present 51 and a divorced father-of-two, wore his shades adjacent astatine night.

There is simply a sly excavation astatine his emotion of nights retired successful Krumbach, which is successful Bavaria, arsenic helium was steadfastly tee-total, adjacent arsenic a teenager.

Friends and erstwhile teachers recalled that helium had 1 ‘sticky retired ear’. His mum Gabriele, 68, told the Mirror that shot took precedence implicit his studies from an aboriginal age, isolated from his emotion of English, which helium taught himself astatine home.

He appeared successful the extremity of word photograph with an Abba-style haircut. As a nine-year-old, helium besides wrote of his emotion of AC/DC.

Former classmate Robert Liebenberg said: “It is lone a tiny municipality truthful we are precise arrogant to person idiosyncratic similar Thomas. It is hard now. Am I for Germany, oregon americium I for Krumbach?”

Tuchel’s erstwhile sports teacher astatine Simpert-Kraemer Gymnasium, Hans Komm, 71, is hoping for an England v Germany 2026 World Cup final.

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