Club name: Wigan Athletic Football Club
Nickname: Latics
Founding year: 1932
Ground name: DW Stadium
Manager: Rasheed Sheikh-Omar
The Story
Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester. Since 2005, the club has competed in the Premier League, the highest tier of English football. Their current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history and Wigan Athletic is the only club which have never been relegated from the top flight in the history of English football.
They have played at the DW Stadium since 1999, sharing the stadium with rugby league club Wigan Warriors. They previously played at Springfield Park for 67 years. The club's nickname is Latics, derived from a contraction of the word "Athletic".
As of the 2012–13 season, Wigan Athletic are the youngest club in the Premier League, having only been formed in 1932.
(Source: Wikipedia)
The Ideology
The Wigan board has entrusted Rasheed with the future of Wigan Athletic Football Club. Rasheed is implementing a five year plan, in which the aim is to enter European football. Due to the fact that Wigan has a limited amount of funds, we will be aiming to bring in youngster to the club, and grow them into superstars. Rasheeds ideology about playing football is quite similar to that of Roberto Martinez. A possession based game that integrated high pressing whilst defending (Zonal when opponents enter our half) and short, direct passes when attacking. The aim is to wear down the defense, whilst keeping possession. When we find that last killer pass, when the defense makes that mistake, we pounce and exploit it!
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