In today’s feature, we take a brief look at all the FIFA World Cup winning managers till date.
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Vicente del Bosque

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Clubs managed: Real Madrid and Beşiktaş

Honours won: Real Madrid – La Liga (2), Supercopa de España, UEFA Champions League (2), UEFA Super Cup, and Intercontinental Cup

Trivia: Del Bosque is the only manager to date to have won the Champions League, the European Championship, and the World Cup.

Marcello Lippi

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Clubs managed: Sampdoria, Pontedera, Siena, Pistoiese, Carrarese, Cesena, Lucchese, Atalanta, Napoli, Juventus, Internazionale, and Guangzhou Evergrande

Honors won: Juventus – Serie A (5), Coppa Italia, Supercoppa Italiana (4), UEFA Champions League, European Supercup, Intercontinental Cup

Trivia: Marcello Lippi has always emphasized the importance of team spirit and unity. Lippi compares a psychologically well integrated football team to the functioning of a psychologically healthy family.

Luiz Felipe Scolari

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Clubs managed: CSA, Juventude, Brasil de Pelotas, Al-Shabab, Grêmio, Goiás, Al Qadisiya, Criciúma, Al-Ahli, Al Qadisiya, Júbilo Iwata, Palmeiras, Cruzeiro, Chelsea, and Bunyodkor

Countries managed: Brazil, Kuwait, and Portugal

Honours won: CSA – Campeonato Alagoano ; Al Qadisiya Kuwait – Kuwait Emir Cup ; Criciúma – Copa do Brasil; Grêmio – Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Copa do Brasil, Campeonato Gaúcho, Copa Libertadores, and Recopa Sudamericana; Bunyodkor – Uzbek League

Trivia: Scolari is well known for his temper and for his theatrical “performances” beside the field during the match, reacting strongly to both the best and the worst moments of his team. Many have pointed out Scolari’s resemblance to actor Gene Hackman and Marlon Brando’s portrayal of Don Vito Corleone in the film The Godfather.

Aimé Jacquet

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Clubs managed: Lyon, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nancy

Honours won: Bordeaux – Ligue 1 (3), Coupe de France (2), Trophée des champions

Trivia: In the months after the Euro 96, Jacquet refined his team’s skills in a series of friendly matches. He adopted a very defensive strategy. The press began to attack the team manager, calling his methods “paleolithic”. However, all that changed when the team began to play in the 1998 World Cup. It was clear that though the team was far from being the most flamboyant in French history, it was a perfectly well-oiled machine that would prove very hard to stop.

Carlos Alberto Parreira 

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Clubs managed: Fluminense, Bragantino, Valencia, Fenerbahçe, São Paulo, MetroStars, Atlético Mineiro, Santos, Internacional, and Corinthians.

Countries managed: Brazil, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and South Africa

Honours won: Brasileiro Série A (with Fluminense, Bragantino and Corinthians); Valencia – Copa del Rey; Fenerbahçe – Süper Lig, Turkish Cup; Gulf Cup of Nations (Kuwait and UAE); AFC Asian Cup (Kuwait and Saudi Arabia)

Trivia: Parreira has coached 5 national squads in 23 games in FIFA World Cup finals. Parreira’s coaching record is 10–4–9 (Wins-Draws-Losses). His teams have scored 28 goals and conceded 32. When coaching Saudi Arabia at the 1998 World Cup in France, he was fired after two matches, one of two managers to be sacked during the tournament.

Franz Beckenbauer

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Clubs managed: Marseille and Bayern Munich

Honours won: Marseille – Ligue 1; Bayern Munich – Bundesliga, UEFA Cup

Trivia: Beckenbauer is widely considered to be one of the greatest ever defenders in the history of football. He is often credited as having invented the role of the modern ‘sweeper’. He is one of only two men to have won the World Cup both as a player and as a coach.

Carlos Bilardo

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Clubs managed: Estudiantes, Deportivo Cali, San Lorenzo, Sevilla FC, Boca Juniors, Guatemala

Countries managed: Colombia, Argentina and Libya

Trivia: Bilardo is currently the General Manager of the Argentina national football team. He is known by fans and the media as el narigón (big nose).

Enzo Bearzot

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Clubs managed: Prato

Honours won: FIFA World Cup 1982

Trivia: In the 1982 World Cup, after poor performances in the first three matches, Bearzot announced the so-called silenzio stampa (press silence) in order to avoid growing criticism from the Italian press. Following that, the Italian team finally started to play its best football, and won the World Cup for the first time since 1938.

César Luis Menotti

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Clubs managed: Newell’s Old Boys, Huracán, FC Barcelona, Boca Juniors, Atlético Madrid, River Plate, C.A. Peñarol, Boca Juniors, Independiente, Sampdoria, Rosario Central, Puebla, Tecos

Countries managed: Argentina and Mexico

Honours won: Huracán – Metropolitano

Trivia: Menotti always displayed a rebellious streak and always cultivated an image of coolness. He wore long hair into his fifties and dressed casually. In 1982, a Spanish magazine published an interview in which Menotti sounded extremely critical of the military process. In a public relations coup, then President Leopoldo Galtieri visited the training camp and hugged Menotti in front of the cameras.

Helmut Schön

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Clubs managed: Saarland and 1. FC Saarbrücken

Honours won: UEFA European Football Championship

Trivia: Under Schön’s leadership, the German team were World Cup runners-up in 1966, third in 1970, European champions in 1972, World Cup winners in 1974 and European Championship runners-up in 1976. He holds World Cup records for both coaching the most matches (25) and the most wins (16), and was the first coach to win both a World Cup and a European Championship.

Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo

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Clubs managed: Botafogo, Fluminense, Flamengo, Al-Hilal, Vasco da Gama, Bangu, Portuguesa

Countries managed: Brazil, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Honours: FIFA World Cup, FIFA Confederations Cup, Copa América, Taça Brasil, Rio de Janeiro State Championship, Guanabara Cup

Trivia: He was the first footballer to win the World Cup both as a manager and as a player.

Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey

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Clubs managed: Ipswich Town, Birmingham City, Panathinaikos (Technical Director)

Honours: FIFA World Cup, First Division, Second Division, Third Division (England)

Trivia: After taking the England job in 1963, Sir Alf Ramsey said, “We will win the World Cup”.

Aymoré Moreira

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Clubs managed: Olaria, Bangu, Palmeiras, Portuguesa, São Paulo, Corinthians, Boavista, Porto, Panathinaikos, Cruzeiro, Vitória-BA, Bahia, Galícia

Honours: FIFA World Cup, Taça Oswaldo Cruz, Taça Bernardo O’Higgins, Copa Roca, Taça Rio Branco

Trivia: He began his football career as a right-winger, but soon changed to become a goalkeeper.

Vicente Ítalo Feola

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Clubs managed: São Paulo FC, Boca Juniors

Honours: FIFA World Cup, Campeonato Paulista

Trivia: Brazil’s legendary striker Pele was introduced to the World by Feola.

Josef Herberger

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Clubs managed: Tennis Borussia Berlin

Honours: FIFA World Cup

Trivia: Herberger was noted for his ability to sum up the essence of the game in short phrases, like, “If one doesn’t know where to pass the ball, one must just put it in the goal!”.

Juan López Fontana

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Clubs managed: C.A. Peñarol

Countries managed: Uruguay, Ecuador

Honours: FIFA World Cup

Trivia: López started out in coaching as a medical assistant at local club Central Fútbol Club.

Vittorio Pozzo

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Clubs managed: Torino, Milan

Honours: FIFA World Cup, Central European International Cup, Men’s Olympic football

Trivia: He oversaw the famous unbeaten run of the Italian side from December 1934 until 1939 and was also famous for creating the “Metodo” tactical formation.

Alberto Horacio Suppici

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Clubs managed: Central Español

Honours: FIFA World Cup, Copa America

Trivia: Suppici is known as “el Profesor”.

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