FABRICE Muamba has been calling in at some of Europe’s top club’s in an effort to further his coaching education.

It is coming up to four years since the former Wanderers midfielder was forced to hang up his boots on medical advice but he is now looking to return to the game, considering a career in the dugout.

Muamba played in Saturday’s Legends fundraiser, his first semi-competitive appearance since the cardiac arrest in an FA Cup quarter-final tie at White Hart Lane which so nearly claimed his life.

The former England Under-21 star, still just 28, believes he has plenty to offer the game and after working in Liverpool’s academy to gain his preliminary coaching badges he is taking his preparations seriously as he gets to the serious business of the A Licence, touring around Europe and beyond to pick up tips.

“I start it in the summer,” he told The Bolton News. “I’ve been around to different clubs abroad – Spain, Germany, just to look at how top-of-the-league clubs work.

“When I get on to this journey I need to make sure I'm preparing myself as much as possible before I drop myself in the deep end.

“I've just been travelling – Bayern, Juventus, to see how they work. I went to Dortmund. It's good for me, it opened my eyes to so many things as well.”

Muamba has made himself available for coaching work at Wanderers in the past but the turmoil at the club in the past 12 months has made the transition difficult.

“If there's a possibility, room available for Fabrice to fit in, I'm more than happy to come in and help,” he said. “Football is nowadays run by business people not football people, that's my opinion anyway. We’ll wait and see.”

Retirement has been an adjustment for the one-time Arsenal trainee, who made 148 appearances for Wanderers before his life and career became the focus of the whole world in 2012.

He remains supportive of the many charitable causes and organisations which raise awareness of cardiac disorders and those which provide potentially life-saving equipment around the world. He does, however, want to be known as more than the ‘Miracle Man’ and is working hard to carve out a career in the game he loves.

“You don't really think about it until you stop, then you have to adjust your life to certain things,” he said."It has taken some time.

“When I decided to start coaching I thought as an ex-player I'd just rely on my ability to play football but when you get into it, coaching is a lot more than that.

“It’s a lot of hours, you need to be patient, especially when you are working with kids.

“You need to learn how to be patient and also the way you deliver messages is important as well.

“Football, when you're 12 or 13, you have to teach them how to kick a ball but when you reach 18, 19 it's not about kicking a ball, it's about delivering the message to players. I'm learning and hopefully it can help me to go a long way.”

Watching the demise of Wanderers has not been easy either for Muamba, who continues to keep in close contact with people around the club.

Relegation to League One is a world away from the Premier League football Muamba played in his prime and watching some of the top-flight excesses stripped away in recent times has made for uneasy viewing from the outside.

“It's been very difficult to see the changes happening,” he said. “For me, relegation was always on the door knocking.

“The one that I really found very difficult to swallow was to sell the training ground to Wigan.

“(There were) so many good memories in that place, regardless of if you're in the starting XI or not you just wanted to come in, the friendships you create.

“I just hope whoever comes in can help the football club financially and bring the town together and hopefully we can move in the right direction.”

"The Bolton fans are always special to me, regardless of whether I'm here or not. It's a town that means so much to me. It's a shame that we're in this very, very difficult situation.”