%0 Report
        %A Balliauw, Matteo
%A Verheuge, Marco
%A Baert, Stijn
        %T Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?
        %D 2022
        %8 2022 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 15024
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15024
        %X 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.
        %K education
%K regression analysis
%K sports management
%K coaching
%K football