Football is often about sliding doors. For example, if two European clubs hadn't passed up the chance to have Sabri Lamouchi and Sol Bamba as their coaching duo,both clubs had turned them them down, if they had not they would not be at Cardiff right now.
Lamouchi and Bamba decided to work together when the latter hung up his playing boots following a stint with Middlesbrough last year.
Lamouchi even made a joke about their first job being in the Cardiff dugout - now it's become reality.
SOL BAMBA:
"I've known the gaffer for 11 years and when I decided to stop last season he said to me, 'As soon as I get a club you come with me, because I know what you can bring and I know you want to learn as well. If it's in England, perfect, if it's in Cardiff, even better!'," Bamba told the EFL podcast.
"He made a joke about it! So, we actually nearly went twice, to Galatasaray in Turkey and to Strasbourg in France.
"Unfortunately they decided to go for other managers and we ended up at Cardiff - I said it was fate. I'm happy, the gaffer is happy and it's worked perfectly."
This is Bamba's first coaching job in senior football, having coached the under-23s at Cardiff and Middlesbrough towards the back end of his playing days.
And he also went on to reveal his managerial ambitions as he embarks on the next step of his journey in the game.
"Coaching was always in the back of my mind," he said. "I wanted to give back to football what it gave to me. I wanted to get my hands dirty. So that was the main plan.
"I always wanted to do it gradually. I don't want to go into a job as manager straight away. It's hard and you have to learn. I worked with Cardiff under-23s before I left a couple of years ago. And I did it with Middlesbrough last season.
"So for me to be an assistant now is even better. And, eventually, and the gaffer knows it, I want to try it myself. But that's further down the line. Hopefully I can work with Sabri for many years and then see where I can go."
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