Still, playing part-time general manager, he speculated it might have been a factor.

"We need so many things on this team," he said at the time, "I wouldn't want to play general manager of this team."

O'Neal took losing to the Spurs to heart so much that he spent part of the last two weeks on the phone, playing general manager.

He loves to play manager like in the West.

Changes are looming and Glavine admitted he sometimes plays "virtual general manager" and wonders who the team will add.

There he played regularly, but like in Utrecht, he never manager to get a place in the starting eleven.

Today we get to do what many ordinary men are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do: play general manager.

Foglino was appointed playing manager of the Uruguayan national team for several matches in 1915 and 1916.

In 2005 he started his management career as playing manager of Slagelse B&I.

At the end of a long day, Alomar was asked to play general manager.