The Swede, who almost lost a leg at 23, on recovery, success and being the youngest ever Champions League coach
Elena Sadiku’s modesty very briefly breaks. “I was pretty good,” she says. “I am not going to lie.” The point is perfectly contextual rather than needlessly arrogant. Sadiku’s extraordinary – and extraordinarily complex – relationship with football will reach its latest peak on Tuesday, when her Celtic team host Twente in the Women’s Champions League.
Sadiku, who will not turn 31 until November, will break the record set by Julian Nagelsmann as the youngest coach in the male or female version of European football’s premier club competition.
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