What is an assistant manager and what do they do?
Soccer 101
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4.9 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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"Who is that guy sitting next to the manager and why is he showing him stuff on an iPad?" We have answers!
What is an assistant manager, and what do they do? To answer that second one, we look at the different types and some of the most notable examples in soccer history.
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| 0:27.6 | Terms and conditions apply 18 plus be gambleware.org. Welcome everybody to soccer 101. |
| 0:49.5 | My name is Taylor Rockwell, and this week I'm very excited because we get to answer the age old question. |
| 0:55.3 | Who are those guys sitting on the bench occasionally whispering things at the manager with great |
| 0:59.0 | intensity? |
| 1:00.0 | It's assistant manager time, Graham Ruffin. |
| 1:02.5 | Are you ready? |
| 1:03.9 | I am ready. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm ready to talk about the puppet masters in soccer. |
| 1:07.4 | Taylor, it's all a conspiracy. |
| 1:08.8 | The people with the real power are the assistant managers just as for the Kloppelganger, as what I'm saying. At what point do you think that |
| 1:16.0 | becomes a requirement that you have to look somewhat like the manager? And why is that the case? |
| 1:20.3 | Is it a subconscious thing of like, like, if I look like him, he'll keep giving me opportunities |
| 1:25.0 | and responsibilities? Seems like a growing trend in soccer because there was the Erickton Hague, Mitchell van der Gag, |
| 1:30.8 | looks quite similar to, so maybe that's part of Pep Linders, so Pep Linders who was |
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