Southampton manager Will Still scores stunning training ground goal - it’s Cristiano Ronaldo-esque | OneFootball

With Portsmouth at home coming up, Still produced a strike that looked similar to when Pompey faced the wrath of Ronaldo in 2008...

Footage has emerged of Southampton head coach Will Still producing a stunning goal on the training ground - which had shades of a footballing superstar about it.

In the dugout, the Anglo-Belgian coach has had somewhat of a rocky start at St Mary's Stadium, winning just one of his first four matches in charge of the Saints after departing French outfit Lens to make the move to England - his first senior coaching role in the country.

Joining Southampton with somewhat of a high reputation, 32-year-old Still has yet to get truly going with the club, but with the sales of Tyler Dibling and Mateus Fernandes to Everton and West Ham respectively unlocking a transfer warchest, the additions of players with that cash such as Finn Azaz, Leo Scienza and Tom Fellows could see the Saints at their very best after the international break.

First up following that is the visit of bitter south coast rivals Portsmouth, and after a clip has emerged of Still on the training ground with the ball at his feet, Saints fans may now want their head coach to sign up to the playing squad!

Footage emerges of Southampton manager Will Still scoring stunning free kick

It's unclear as to when this happened, but Still has posted footage on his own Instagram account showing him scoring a quite simply special free-kick - even though there was no goalkeeper in-between the sticks.

Around 25 yards out from goal, Still stepped up in somewhat of a knuckleball fashion, and he proceeded to whip the ball over the wall - which were life-size training figures - and the ball nestled into the top corner, as Still wheeled away to celebrate his achievement.

And it looked somewhat similar to a goal that Saints' next opponents Portsmouth will know only too well about - Cristiano Ronaldo's iconic free-kick goal against them in January 2008.

The Portuguese icon mesmerised everyone with his strike at Old Trafford that left David James rooted to his goal-line - it's a goal that is memorised by many to this very day, and Still very similarly put his into the back of the net in Ronaldo-like fashion.

Will Still's non-playing background makes Southampton training footage more incredible

Any amateur player can score a once in a lifetime goal if they connect at the right moment, and that could be the case for Still here.

Unlike some managers in this day and age, who have plenty of on-field experience as footballers, Still came into the game a different route - he did play academy football for Belgian sides Sint-Truiden and Mons, but he never went professional.

Instead, Still turned to the coaching side of the game from 17, moving to England to start coaching with Preston North End's under-14's whilst he was studying at a nearby college, before getting his big first break as an analyst at Sint-Truiden - the club who he played for as a youth.

Clearly though, Still retains some of the technical ability with the ball at his feet that he has as a teenager as the evidence shows - Portsmouth fans seeing it though may be haunted of the Ronaldo strike from nearly 18 years ago, and they're set to come up against a free-kick specialist themselves in Saints left-back Ryan Manning next week when they make the trip to St Mary's Stadium.