[B]Current coaches who were football players before[/B]

[yasik19]

I'm curious to know how many current EPL coaches have played professional football in their past for any professional team?

Jose Mourinho is one i know. Any others? (Wenger?)

[Colm]

I'm curious to know how many current EPL coaches have played professional football in their past for any professional team?

Jose Mourinho is one i know. Any others? (Wenger?)Nearly all of them have, SAF played for Rangers, Bruce played for Man Utd, Souness played for Liverpool Rangers etc.., Harry Redknapp played for West Ham, Chris Coleman played for Fulham, David Moyes played for Preston, Martin Jol played for West Brom and Coventry, nearly all managers have played professional football in there past.

[Prenn]

Who hasn't?

[Mel B]

I'm curious to know how many current EPL coaches have played professional football in their past for any professional team?

Jose Mourinho is one i know. Any others? (Wenger?)


Sir Bobby Robson.

[Matt Clark]

I'm curious to know how many current EPL coaches have played professional football in their past for any professional team?

Jose Mourinho is one i know. Any others? (Wenger?)

Is this a wind-up?

[comme]

It would certainly seem like a wind up. But i will just walk into the hilarious joke anyway.

Almost every single manager (in all the leagues) has played pro football at some stage.

Mourinho is probably the person in the top flight who played to the lowest standard. Wenger was not much good either although he did win a French league title with Strasbourg.

[Matt Clark]

Let's turn this into a proper thread - which of the managers in the Premier League today had the best playing career?

Actually - hang on. No, that's silly. OK - let's disqualify Graeme Souness from the off and focus on who had the second-best playing career. ;)

I vote for either Bruce or Robson.

EDIT: Actually, no I don't. I vote for David O'Leary.

[Mel B]

Actually - hang on. No, that's silly. OK - let's disqualify Graeme Souness from the off and focus on who had the second-best playing career. ;)




Is that because my manager was absolutely outstanding as a player.

[Matt Clark]

Yes. Yes it is.

[Mel B]

Yes. Yes it is.


Thought as much sunbeam.

[Teso Dos Bichos]

I vote for either Bruce or Robson.

EDIT: Actually, no I don't. I vote for David O'Leary.

Is that because the original two had great careers with Man Utd?

[Matt Clark]

:rolleyes:

Yeah ... that's it. Their combined honours list really burns me, you know?

No, it's because David O'Leary actually had a more distinguished career. He just slippped my mind when I first began thinking about it and those two obvious ones sprang to mind.

[Teso Dos Bichos]

The question had to be asked. ;)

[Matt Clark]

Why?

[JN13]

:rolleyes:

Yeah ... that's it. Their combined honours list really burns me, you know?

No, it's because David O'Leary actually had a more distinguished career. He just slippped my mind when I first began thinking about it and those two obvious ones sprang to mind.

What about Mark Hughes of Blackburn Rovers?
He had much more success than David O'Leary.

[Matt Clark]

Oh yeah - that's a good shout.

[superdave]

Is this a wind-up?
Bill Belichick just won his 3rd Super Bowl in 4 years, and the highest level of football he played was freshman football at a Div. III school. That's about a million miles removed from pro football. It's not even real college football.

To a Yank, it's quite remarkable how rarely a high-profile manager had a low-profile playing career. Only the NBA has anything close to the same relationship.

[comme]

The thing is though is that American sports are organised in a completely different way.

To the average Brit the idea that watching Manchester Uni v. UCL would be more entertaining than Man U v. Arsenal is laughable.