Wednesday, December 23, 2009

The Effect of Replacing a Soccer Coach

"Ukraine have not renewed the contract of coach Olexiy Mykhaylychenko after the national team failed to qualify for next year's World Cup in South Africa."

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=717195&sec=europe&cc=5739

Teams sometimes hope to improve their performance by replacing their trainer. There's quite some economics research on whether this actually works. One example is


Another


It seems most of this research shows replacing the coach is not improving (nor deteriorating) the sports performance of the football club.


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