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Pellegrino Matarazzo is proving to be an American success story in Germany. The New Jersey native has made the step up from Julian Nagelsmann s assistant to successful head coach in his own right with VfB Stuttgart, and is now ready for the greatest challenge in football right now with a trip to Bayern Munich.
It s been a long journey for the 43-year-old, and that only started with his move from the USA to Germany in 2000, fresh from earning a degree in applied mathematics from Columbia University. The defender spent a decade in Germany s lower leagues before settling in the reserves at Nürnberg. He would later become the team s assistant coach under Rene Müller and Michael Wiesinger ahead of being put in charge of the club s U17s in 2012.