Vittorio Pozzo is the only manager to have won the World Cup twice.
TheFIFA World Cup is considered the most prestigiousassociation football tournament in the world.[1][2] The twenty-two World Cup tournaments have been won by eight national teams.Brazil have won five times, followed byGermany andItaly with four titles each;Argentina with three titles,France andUruguay, with two titles each; andEngland andSpain, with one title each.[3] The role of themanager is to select the squad for the World Cup and develop the tactics of the team. Pressure is attached to the role due to the significance of winning a World Cup and the lack of day-to-day contact with players during the regular club season aside from international breaks.[4]
Carlos Alberto Parreira holds the record for managing at the most FIFA World Cup final tournaments with six appearances while managing five different national teams.[9][10] Schön, who led West Germany to victory in the 1974 World Cup, has managed the most matches in the tournament at 25,[11] and won a record 16 matches during his spell as West Germany manager from 1966 to the1978 FIFA World Cup.[12] Suppici is the youngest manager to win the World Cup, being 31 in 1930.[13] Zagallo andCésar Luis Menotti were also in their 30s when they won the World Cup. Zagallo was 38 years old in 1970 and Menotti was 39 years old in 1978.[14]Vicente del Bosque is the oldest coach to win the World Cup at 59 in2010.[15]
Three men have won the tournament both as a player and as a manager; Zagallo (as a player in1958 and1962, as a manager in 1970), Beckenbauer (as a player in 1974, as a manager in 1990) andDidier Deschamps (as a player in 1998, as a manager in2018).[16][17] Both Beckenbauer and Deschamps were also thecaptain of their respective teams while winning the World Cup as a player.[18]
Mário Zagallo of Brazil (left),Franz Beckenbauer of Germany (middle) andDidier Deschamps of France (right), have won the World Cup as a player and a manager for their respective countries.
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