Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: The chance to test their mettle against the best is what attracts players and managers to the Champions League. But for one young coach who has already reached the promised land, it was the second tier of English football that provided his steepest learning curve. 'The Championship is really, really difficult!' Basle manager Paulo Sousa tells Sportsmail. 'Coaches who don't have that experience cannot realise how difficult it is. 'The standard of the players is more or less the same. It makes it very competitive right through the season. You can see in the way teams' positions change throughout the season, from the bottom and the top of the league. And the dreamland – the Premier League – is so, so close!Basle manager Paulo Sousa opens up to Sportsmail in a tell-all interviewHe reveals the Championship was extremely competitiveSousa had spells in charge of QPR, Swansea and LeicesterThe 44-year-old is now at Basle and coaching in the Champions LeagueHe won the trophy twice as a player with Juventus and DortmundBasle are in the round of 16 of this year's campaign against Porto 
 Question:Sousa's first job in club management was with _ between 2008 and 2009.

QPR