Manchester United have announced the club have added Sohail Rehman to their back-room staff, a young coach from Yorkshire who also just so happens to be the first wheelchair-bound coach to have ever been hired to train able-bodied professional players.
Rehman, who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy and has been in a chair since the age of 13, gained his requisite FA badges in 2013 after coaching at Sunday League level for years, with United signing him up to help nurture their young flock at the club’s academy.
The 22-year-old United fan has described joining his boyhood club’s coaching ranks as his “dream job”.