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Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Bonn: Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), 2022.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Z26
football
education
coaching
Z2
Z22
sports management
ddc:330
L83
regression analysis
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.dedup.wf.001..201f21fe068b3e4387a65a5240a33378