Jack de Gier now also knows that the life of a trainer is not a bed of roses. After the unprecedented 13-0 defeat at PEC Zwolle, the trainer was dismissed by the board of FC Den Bosch. The umpteenth in the league this season. As a trainer you are actually the dead-painted scapegoat. But does that mean things get better afterwards?
“No, a change of trainer makes no difference nine times out of ten,” reveals sports economist Thomas Peeters, who did research into this at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Peeters explains that things often go a little better with a club, but that that would also happen if it continued without a coach. “They usually replace the trainer when things go really bad. You have to ask yourself if it wouldn’t go better next time anyway. Because this was a historic outlier.”
“That shock effect is often short-term.”
Mario Captein, director of the interest group Coaches Professional Football, also has a hard head that a new trainer at FC Den Bosch will work wonders. Captein, former player and director of Helmond Sport, among others: “Perhaps it will have a shock effect and that the players will triggered get to play better. But that is often for the short term.”
Other trainers who were already fired from Brabant clubs this season:
- Robert Molenaar from NAC Breda,
- Kristof Aelbrecht from TOP Oss,
- Kevin Hofland of Willem II,
- Sven Swinnen of Helmond Sport.
As a coach you have to learn to live with the fact that your job is hanging by a thread. Of course the quality of a club also depends on the players, but in the end all eyes are often on the trainer.
“Now the board can say that everything has been done.”
“If the team is not doing well, you can send twenty players off, but the transfer window is closed. So they can’t be replaced.”
And then the choice is quickly made, says Thomas Peeters. “People expect a lot from the club. Now the board can tell the press that everything has been done. And then the trainer is usually to blame.”
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