They do this by going through the coaching pathway provided by the Football Association. Once retired, they then find a role at a club as a coach or manager. However, many of football’s most successful managers did not play professional football at a high level or even professionally at all. Champions League and Premiership winning, Jose Mourinho, for example, was a translator at Barcelona before moving into management and had never played professional football. The reason for this is that playing football and managing football have two very different skillsets, resulting in some players having a far more successful coaching career than a playing one.
