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Damien Duff has no trouble re-occupying the same position at Celtic for a man who has long been considered the baby of the Irish team, but his second training is likely to lead him into senior management.
The Dubliner has started his full-time role for the past 10 days, contrasting with the demands of the age of abandonment of his days, and says that this could open new perspectives.
Of course, he can not yet say with certainty whether the transition, three years after completing his 20 years of playing decorated, will generate the same level of personal fulfillment.
So far, the deliveries have been shoveled and nothing indicates that a honeymoon will be decimated judging by the comments made at its unveiling yesterday.
"It's the first time in my life that I work at 8 am and 5 pm at home," said the 39-year-old about his new role as badistant to the chief of the reserve team of the club.
"You do not see that side when you're a professional footballer, but it's been brilliant.
"I brought my wife here and I took my kids out of school for them to come here.
"They were happy to come but there is no other place in the world, nor in any other club, for which I would have left Ireland for, to the minute, anyway, in my career. 'coach.
"Celtic was my growing team, I had all the kits and dreamed of playing for them.
"The club asked me to come in and interview, which was a very difficult process, the easiest was to accept the offer."
Duff will work with the cast of Brendan Rodgers' first team, including two compatriots Tommy Caffrey and Barry Coffey.
Where it is needed, it remains to be seen, but having chosen to start from the bottom by training consecutive teams under 15 at Shamrock Rovers, his coaching career is experiencing a steady upward curve.
The advice of an old acquaintance will help too.
"I know Brendan was back in Chelsea 15 years ago, while he was working at the academy," Duff explained about the Northern Irishman.
"We were talking a lot about Celtic at that time and we ended up here, that's not why I got this job.
"The gaffer has been great, he is top clbad and he is one of the best managers in the world.
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"It's a fact, and I think the club is lucky to have it." It all comes from him, he's the figurehead.
"I'm only a baby in terms of coaching, not pretending to know everything, I'm here to learn and what an incredible environment to do it."
"I just want to be a great coach and see where that leads me, whether it's direction or elsewhere.
"I was nervous the first day, I still am a little bit and I do not really think it will change." The nerves are good.
Twenty years after his first season as a senior international under an oversized shirt, the admirable features remain.
Nothing prevents the ordinary man who has achieved extraordinary things with this shirt to do the same in tracksuit.
Irish independent
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