Are home-born managers more successful in international soccer?

tux_tina

As far as managers of international squads go, there are some achieving great success (Vicente del Bosque for instance) and others not as successful (Steve McClaren, among others). Is there any relation between the success of a manager and whether they are managing the team of their home country? (ie: born in Spain, managing the Spanish national soccer team)

Originally asked by stevvve on Stack Exchange (sports) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Great question, however hard it may be to provide a satisfactory answer to... :) I cannot give you statistics on homegrown vs foreign managers in national teams, but I just want to point out that there are lots of homegrown managers that do not do well at all, likewise foreign managers that do wonders. Let's look at some examples: Brazil won all their World Cup titles with Brazilian managers, even when they came 2nd or 3rd they had Brazilian managers. For that matter, I don't know if they ever had a foreign manager, and it appears as if it hasn't been much of a problem for them. Italy, much like Brazil, won all their titles, got 2nd and 3rd place finishes in the World Cup with Italian...

Full answer by posdef: https://sports.stackexchange.com/a/953 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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