Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?

Matteo Balliauw (), Marco Verheuge and Stijn Baert
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Matteo Balliauw: University of Antwerp
Marco Verheuge: Ghent University

No 15024, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association between success as a professional head coach and prior experience of former professional players as a youth coach, player-coach, head coach at a lower division, assistant coach, in other staff positions and in club management positions. Our regression analyses, based on unique coach career data, show a significant positive association for the jobs of assistant or youth coach.

Keywords: education; regression analysis; sports management; coaching; football (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 Z22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2022-01
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Published - revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters , 2022, 30 (12), 1692–1695

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