The wild hip-hop parties that started Tuchel's journey to England boss

When Glenn Hoddle's England started their World Cup campaign in France in 1998, Thomas Tuchel was still working a student job at a bar in Stuttgart.

Almost 30 years later, Tuchel is now the England manager tasked with doing what Hoddle and so many others failed to do - win the World Cup for the Three Lions.

The 52-year-old German is known as one of the game's keenest minds, a coach obsessed with detail and blessed with a special gift for analysis.

It is hard to imagine that in the late 1990s, Tuchel was working at the wildest parties in Stuttgart and hanging out with some of Germany's biggest hip-hop stars.

Yet it was there, having almost given up on football entirely, that Tuchel began his journey to World Cup management.

Last year, respected German coach Ralf Rangnick recalled the story of how he launched Tuchel's career as a coach.

"When I found out that he was working in a bar in Stuttgart to earn his living, I could hardly believe it," Rangnick told the BBC , external in an interview with former Germany and Aston Villa midfielder Thomas Hitzlsperger.

"I called him and I said, 'what are you doing?' He said 'I have to earn my living there'. I said to him, 'Thomas, please, why don't you come to us in Stuttgart and work as a youth-team coach?'