Career of professional soccer players after sport. A life cycle based analysis.

• Applicant: Privatdozent Dr. Werner Pitsch, since 6/2021
• Subject Area: Economic Theory ; Empirical Social Research
• Term: from 2018 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 404929781

The specific objectives of the research project are:1) Specification and development of (sports) economic instruments to analyse career-related decisions made by soccer players according to the characteristics of the employment market in professional football. 2) Empirical check on the career-related decision-making processes of (former) professional football players as inter-temporal allocation choices according to the economic concept of the lifecycle thesis. 3) Identification of factors relevant to success for the critical transition from the competitive to a non-competitive career by athletes, taking account of the given structural conditions. 4) Improvement of the academic evidence level for developing and modifying (new) preventative concepts/approaches to managing careers and solving problems relating to the competitive and post-competitive career progressions of top athletes.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• Co-Investigators: Professor Dr. Christian Pierdzioch; Professor Dr. Torsten Schlesinger
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Eike Emrich, until 5/2021