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Former GKs turned successful coaches are kinda rare? I can think of Lopetegui and Zoff on the top of my mind.
Nuno Espírito Santo was a goalkeeper
As someone who had to endure his 10 PL games at Spurs.. I'd still call him a successful coach. He managed to coach in the premier league 4 seasons or so, I'm not sure exactly how many. Then he went and won the Saudi League. Finishing in a European spot with wolves and just simply not getting fired in the PL for 4 years makes him successful in my book. I'll give him credit where it's due... I just pray he never comes back here.
I think that's the case mainly because there are really few goalkeepers. Ten time fewer than on field players.
It's a valid point, but I'm still not sure that even 6-7% of all relatively successful managers are ex-GK.
I think this could be because they have more specific training schedules and/or choose to specialize in GK training only post-retirement.
For once, I think that this might a trick your mind is playing you (and me), cuz we naturally categorize players into "GK and outfield players", where one group is represented ten times more then the other.
First guy that came to mind was Raymond Goethals, not a household name to many ppl today, but he won the CL with Marsaille in 93, thats why I looked a bit into his career and he coached mostly in Belgium & France, but won a dozen club titles and had a good stint with the belgium NT.
Zenga and Nuno, but neither great managers. Thinking about it, quite weird that Wolves have had 3 ex-GK managers in recent years.
Obviously not an internationally recognised name because he only played in Latam and almost exclusively coached in Argentina, but Julio César Falcioni is a former GK that also had a very extensive managerial career.
As a player he mostly played for Vélez, and the Colombian team América de Cali, where his team infamously lost 3 Libertadores finals in a row.
As a manager, he always managed here apart from a brief stint in Católica in Chile. He managed a fuckton of teams, but he is mostly known for being one of the biggest legends of Banfield. He coached them to their only ever top flight title in 2009, with an 18 year old James Rodríguez as one of their stars. In subsequent years he came back several times to Banfield always trying to save them from going down and he always succeeded lol, including qualifying for Copa Libertadores once.
Outside of Banfield i would say his best achievement is reaching the Copa Libertadores final with Boca Juniors in 2012, when he lost against the Corinthians team that would eventually beat Chelsea to win the CWC.
Preud'homme has a good career in Belgium, but went to Saudi Arabia when it was time to build up his international career.