Colin Cooper

Staff

Staff record

staff is the non-playing subtype of person: people this export decoded as staff rather than as players. It is only one of the three places a career can live. Plenty of well-known managers have no staff row at all — some are stored as players, and many sit in person_unclassified, whose subtype the decoder could not determine. Whichever table a person is in, their jobs come from staff_history joined to job_type, which is the table below.

Current ability
124
Potential ability
-8
Home reputation
90
Current reputation
90
World reputation
50
International appearances
2
Coaching qualification
—

Ability and the three reputations are the raw game figures, which run to roughly 200 rather than to 20 — they are printed exactly as stored and nothing is converted. coaching_qualification is a badge level with no lookup table in the export, so it is shown as the stored number and no name is invented for it.

Calculated at game start

Age at game start
43
Reputation
National 0.0 / 5 stars
Coaching style
Defending
Preferred mentality
Very Cautious
Preferred playing style
Standard
Preferred pressing style
More Urgent
Coaching category scores calculated by the game
CategoryScoreStars
Quickness36 / 1002.0 / 5
Strength36 / 1002.0 / 5
GK shot stopping36 / 1002.0 / 5
Defending (tactical)75 / 1004.0 / 5
Defending (technical)70 / 1004.0 / 5
Possession (tactical)72 / 1004.0 / 5
Possession (technical)62 / 1003.5 / 5
Attacking (tactical)55 / 1003.0 / 5
Attacking (technical)50 / 1003.0 / 5
Overall52 / 1003.0 / 5

Football Manager's own game-start calculations from the attributes above, ported from the game's rules by the enriched overlay (method in each value's tooltip). Coaching scores use the game's FM22 training categories applied to every release and leave out the secondary-job and injury reductions; a dash is a value the rule had no input for, and board members have no reputation label.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
1
Hair colour code
3
Skin tone code
6

Raw codes from the source. The export carries no lookup table for any of them, so they are shown as stored and are not given names.

Non-playing ability

Judging player ability 12
Judging player potential 12
Tactical knowledge 16
Hardness of training 20
Youngsters 17
Motivating 17
People management 14
Discipline 17
Mind games 3
Determination 16
Buying players 10

11 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 4
Defending 14
Technical 9
Tactical 14
Mental 11
Fitness 1
Attacking 4
Defending 14
Technical 9
Tactical 14
Mental 11
Fitness 1

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Goalkeeping coaching

Goalkeeper shot stopping 1

1 of 3 values recorded from staff_coaching. Not recorded: Goalkeeper handling, Goalkeeper distribution.

Tactical style

The tactical preferences this person brings to a side, on the same 1 to 20 scale.

Attacking 4
Directness 10
Tempo 10
Width 14
Depth 8
Pressing 14
Sitting back 9
Marking 18
Offside 14
Use of playmaker 10
Use of subs 10
Free roles 10
Flexibility 14
Flamboyancy 4
Squad rotation 4

15 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 3 of 8 spells. A spell counts as current when date_left is empty or falls in the future — the source records plenty of long-finished spells with no end date, so more than one spell can carry the mark.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
Middlesbrough Player — 1991-07-25 Ended
Millwall Player 1991-07-25 1993-06-21 Ended
Nottingham Forest Player 1993-06-21 1998-08-20 Ended
Middlesbrough Player 1998-08-20 — Current
Sunderland Player 2004-03-12 2004-03-28 Ended
Middlesbrough Player — — Current
Middlesbrough Coach 2006-06-30 — Current
Middlesbrough Player Liaison Officer 2006-11-30 2010-05-03 Ended

National-team spells

No national-team spells are recorded in person_nation_contract for this person.

Club contract

Team
—
Joined
—
Contract start
—
Expires
—
Weekly wage
—

Languages

No languages are recorded in person_language for this person.

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

Liked people

Personal information

Date of birth
1967-02-28
Nationality
England
Birth city
—

Personality

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes, and is shown exactly as recorded. A dash is a value the export did not record, which is not a zero.

Adaptability 12
Ambition 10
Controversy 7
Loyalty 12
Pressure 12
Professionalism 20
Sportsmanship 11
Temperament 11