25-year-old Irish youngster sends hilarious resume to manage the Ireland national team

O’Brien’s hilarious resume to the Ireland FA.

Walt Disney had once said that, “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

Paddy O’Brien, a 25-year-old Irish, perhaps was a bit inspired from the above quote when he sent in his hilarious resume to apply for the vacated position of managing the Ireland national football team last year after then-manager Giovanni Trapattoni was sacked in September. Well, maybe more than a bit inspired.

O’Brien, unlike other supporters who were waiting for a new leader to fill in the role, took it upon himself to take the job.

“At the time I wrote the application there were a lot of individuals being touted for the job and, even with no experience of football management, I reckoned I would be every bit as good as Owen Coyle, Gerard Houllier, Noel King, etc,” he tells Guardian in an interview.

Here is his hilarious CV that lists his innovative ideas with new formations alongside his salary expectations:

However, his enthusiasm to manage the national team was not shared by the FAI who did not call him for an interview while former Sunderland manager Martin O'Neill was confirmed as Ireland’s new manager with Roy Keane as his assistant.

“Martin O’Neill has impressed me thus far,” he adds. “He’s not utilising my tactics, even though I said he could if he wanted, but there are more than two ways to skin a cat. I suppose the proof of the pudding will be whether he manages to guide us to Euro 2016 glory.”

“I can see why Keane was hired as assistant manager. He’s the perfect foil for the good cop/bad cop routine and obviously knows a bit about the Irish game. I would have appointed an assistant double team of philosopher Noam Chomsky and chess master Garry Kasparov. Chomsky was very interested.”

O’Brien insists that he is still ready to play a role in the team. “I’m also always happy to advise O’Neill on any tactical questions he may have, for a small fee.

Here is the FAI’s polite reply to the ambitious young man: