TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Balliauw, Matteo
AU  - Verheuge, Marco
AU  - Baert, Stijn
        TI  - Which Former Professional Football Players Become Successful Professional Head Coaches?
        PY  - 2022/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15024
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15024
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - education
KW  - regression analysis
KW  - sports management
KW  - coaching
KW  - football
        ER  -