Footballs, coaching and television

[Bruce Wayne]

Whilst reading through the Stubbs thread it got me thinking about the progression of players into coaches/managers.

As I've mentioned in previous threads, England has fewer UEFA Pro license holders than the Czech Republic so there is obviously something going wrong with senior players becoming educated as coaches.

Perhaps in previous generations players took up coaching because it gave them a living for the remainder of their careers, but with modern players paid so much and tv punditry offering a highly lucrative soap box for casting opinions without having to put your reputation on the line by actually doing the job, it does seem as though more and more players are taking the easy way out.

If you think of our most successful national teams of the past 20 years (Italia 90 and Euro 96), how many of those players are now managers? Contrast that number with how many regularly appear as pundits either on tv, radio or in print?

 

[Rob]

I'd just like to see the names of the Italian Managers of the last 20 years, how about Brazil?

Germany did well (ish) under klinsman as did we under hoddle but not keegan.

I think what this goes to show that being just a player or just a manager doesn't effect your ability to manage, you either have it or you don't.

Moyes wasn't exactly an amazing player for celtic was he

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I'm not saying that all managers have to have been players in a past life, just that many do seem to have been.

 

[Rob]

Yeh I know, but the trouble is that sometimes great players become great managers, or rubbish managers.
Sometimes rubbish players become great managers.

I'm not sure how else the game is supposed to go about getting quality managers,ex players have the thing that new managers don't have (experience) and ex players don't have the thing that new managers have in training and maybe more tactical managerial know how.

its a flip of the coin if you ask me and the stat that says there are more qualified in czech just means that more want to coach and manage than here.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

That last sentance was the point of the thread. At the moment we are largely bemoaning the fact that we have so few decent coaches in England, either to manage the national team or to coach the young players. Is there any incentive for players to go into coaching/management now when alternative careers are so lucrative?

 

[Rook]

In the US its common knowledge that great players in any sports don't make great or even good managers/coaches because they see the game differently. They can't understand why players who can't do something that the manager used to make look easy.