Managers who've never played as a professional / league player
I spotted a face on a bench the other day but couldn't remember who it was then last night the name just popped into my head.
Lenny Lawrence. Now a coach at Forest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennie_Lawrence
As I was looking him up on wiki I noticed that although he played non-league football he never played in the Football League.
Any other's you can think of.
I thought of Mourinho and Wenger but although they weren't prolific they did have professional careers.
Lenny Lawrence. Now a coach at Forest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennie_Lawrence
As I was looking him up on wiki I noticed that although he played non-league football he never played in the Football League.
Any other's you can think of.
I thought of Mourinho and Wenger but although they weren't prolific they did have professional careers.
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won the World Cup with Brazil in 1994 plus other managerial honours. he was never a player at any level.
Arrigo Sacchi was a player, but at a level just above me.
A great manager in his day but never played at any high level.
Never spotted that he never played though
Yes, that was who instantly sprang to my mind.
From memory, he was with Leicester City as a youth player around age 15 / 16.
But his senior career as such was with Enfield from 1981 to 1985 and Boreham Wood from 1985 to 1988.
OK, I looked up wikipedia
He played for Rangers, and scored some 200+ goals in his career, not great as say a Ronaldo and Messi but not bad.
He was a player but it doesn't look like it was at a high level. Possibly all non-league apart from the foriegn side he played for.
Brian Kerr (ex Ireland manager)
Arrigo Sacchi
And John Carver played lower league football for Gateshead
Howard Wilkinson?
Both played at league level. Howard Wilkinson played quite a lot at league level.
Gordon lee Carlisle and Everton was a school PE teacher before becoming a coach then a manager.