Serious question - A player can’t play for another country but a coach can coach anywhere. Is there a time where the coach only allowed to coach for his national team?
This puts lower ranked countries at a greater disadvantage
Usually, managing any NT other than a ‘top’ side will limit your coaching options to nationalized coaches. Virtually no staff is willing to take a job with _____, when they could be unemployed in their home country.
Nah it makes no sense.
I get the spirit of your question but I am fine leaving it at just the players being from the country and not extending it to support staff I think that’s a better divide. The 11 on the field playing are the ones who matter most anyways.
To be a little obtuse and go a little extreme, is it just the manager that has to be from said country or position coaches too, what about trainers and other behind the scene help. Who is policing all the practices everywhere to make sure there is no outside help or do only match days count.
I think it gets a little harder to draw a cutoff line if you limit some support staff but not all because you can put a puppet manager from country in and have someone else who you would rather have as manager running everything behind the scenes. This just makes it more transparent.
I’d prefer it but I’ve got no idea how you’d police it. I suspect you’d end up with some teams ‘advised’ by a foreign coach most of the time, then some local coach with a lack of self respect does the subs and shouting from the sidelines on match days.
That isn’t necessarily a good thing… England would have won the Euros and gone further in the World Cup if they had Klopp or Pep instead of Southgate…
What about assistant coaches? What if a country hired Mourinho with the title of head of ball storage and let him give football tips to the head coach? Ever watch the movie Casino (1995)?
See my points. Don’t meant to be rude but that’s exactly what would happen.