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Which former professional football players become successful professional head coaches?
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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 1024
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Wirtschaft
Sports; Gambling; Restaurants; Recreation; Tourism
Sports Economics: Labor Issues
- Subject
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football
coaching
education
regression analysis
sports management
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Balliauw, Matteo
Verheuge, Marco
Baert, Stijn
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Veröffentlichung
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Global Labor Organization (GLO)
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Essen
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2022
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Balliauw, Matteo
- Verheuge, Marco
- Baert, Stijn
- Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Time of origin
- 2022