I am very new to Laravel. I am building a website where multiple users can have one or more roles. I have a users table and a user_roles table. Each user_roles column has a user_id and an enum field where they can be a "referee", "coach", or "player". Whenever I want to check if the User is a certain member of a role I call a referee, coach, or player function in my model from the controller. Is my structure and code efficient, or is there any way to clean it up? Thanks.

User.php

public function roles()
{
    return $this->hasMany('App\Role');
}

public function getRoles()
{
    $roles_collection = $this->roles;
    $roles = [];
    foreach ($roles_collection as $role) {
        $roles[] = $role['role'];
    }
    return $roles;
}

public function referee()
{
    if (in_array('referee', $this->getRoles())) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

public function player()
{
    if (in_array('player', $this->getRoles())) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

public function coach()
{
    if (in_array('coach', $this->getRoles())) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

example of checking User role, called from controller

if (Auth::user()->referee()) {
       echo 'referee';
}

I am very new to Laravel. I am building a website where multiple users can have one or more roles. I have a users table and a user_roles table. Each user_roles column has a user_id and an enum field where they can be a "referee", "coach", or "player". Whenever I want to check if the User is a certain member of a role I call a referee, coach, or player function in my model from the controller. Is my structure and code efficient, or is there any way to clean it up?

User.php

public function roles()
{
    return $this->hasMany('App\Role');
}

public function getRoles()
{
    $roles_collection = $this->roles;
    $roles = [];
    foreach ($roles_collection as $role) {
        $roles[] = $role['role'];
    }
    return $roles;
}

public function referee()
{
    if (in_array('referee', $this->getRoles())) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

public function player()
{
    if (in_array('player', $this->getRoles())) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

public function coach()
{
    if (in_array('coach', $this->getRoles())) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

Example of checking the User role, called from the controller:

if (Auth::user()->referee()) {
       echo 'referee';
}