Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/250685 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15024
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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: 
football
coaching
education
regression analysis
sports management
JEL: 
L83
Z22
Z26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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