Yaya Touré has gone from bossing Champions League midfields to calling the shots on the touchline — talk about refusing to leave the big stage. The Ivorian legend has led Slovan Bratislava into the UEFA Champions League league phase in his managerial debut.
That run makes Touré the first African head coach to reach the competition’s main stage. A Champions League winner as a player, he is now collecting a very different kind of European-night bragging right from the dugout.
For Slovan Bratislava, it is a landmark qualification. For Yaya? Another reminder that football CVs can, in fact, be doing too much.