1. Which former professional football players become successful professional head coaches?
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Balliauw, Matteo, Verheuge, Marco, and Baert, Stijn
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SOCCER players ,SOCCER coaches ,CLUB management ,REGRESSION analysis ,PROFESSIONAL employees ,SPORTS administration - 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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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