BY CHRIS DUNLAVY
PAUL Cook called him a student of football who lives for the game. Thomas Tuchel lauded his energy and passion. Fleetwood and Huddersfield both asked him to be their manager.
Anthony Barry is one of the most highly-rated coaches on the planet, a Champions League winner at Chelsea who spent the World Cup with Portugal and is now an integral part of Tuchel's Bayern Munich staff.
Yet six years ago. the 36-year-old was a journeyman midfielder struggling to get a game for Wrexham in the National League.
“Nobody then would have guessed he’d end up at Bayern," laughs James Jenni...
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