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===Post-retirement=== {{multiple image | align = left | total_width = 320 | footer = | image1 = José_Mourinho.jpg | width1 = 300 | height1 = | alt1 = [[José Mourinho]] is a retired football player who post-retirement has worked as a [[manager (association football)|football manager]]. | caption1 = [[José Mourinho]] is a retired football player who post-retirement has worked as a [[manager (association football)|football manager]]. | image2 = Sweden - Denmark, 8 April 2015 (16899782868) (cropped).jpg | width2 = 300 | height2 = | alt2 = [[Pia Sundhage]] is a retired football player who post-retirement has worked as the [[manager (association football)|football manager]] for the [[United States women's national soccer team|United States]] and [[Sweden women's national football team|Sweden]] national teams. | caption2 = [[Pia Sundhage]] is a retired football player who post-retirement has worked as the [[manager (association football)|football manager]] for the [[United States women's national soccer team|United States]] and [[Sweden women's national football team|Sweden]] national teams. }} A minority of retired footballers continue working full-time in football, for instance as football managers. A 1979 study reported that former first-team ballplayers were over-represented as top-ranking executives in their companies and had greater income mobility than second-teamers and reserves.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Sack | first1 = Allen L. | last2 = Thiel | first2 = Robert | title = College football and social mobility: a case study of Notre Dame football players | journal = [[Sociology of Education (journal)|Sociology of Education]] | volume = 52 | issue = 1 | pages = 60–66 | jstor = 2112594 | date = January 1979 | doi=10.2307/2112594}}</ref> However, some experience chronic health issues, see below.
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