@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp15024,
            	author={Balliauw, Matteo and Verheuge, Marco and Baert, Stijn},
            	title={Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?},
            	year={2022},
	month={Jan},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={15024},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15024},
	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},
            }