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In football, a manager is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a football (soccer) team.
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| x Dino Zoff |
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Dino Zoff (born February 28, 1942 in Mariano del Friuli) is an Italian former football goalkeeper and is the oldest winner ever of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the Italian team in the 1982 tournament in Spain, at the age of 40.
Zoff...
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| x Gheorghe Hagi |
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Gheorghe Hagi (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈɡe̯orɡe ˈhadʒi]; born February 5, 1965 in Săcele), is a Romanian former football player of Aromanian origin. He was famous for his passing, close control, long shots and was regarded as one of the best...
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| x Johan Cruijff |
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Hendrik Johannes Cruijff ( Johan Cruijff (help·info); born 25 April 1947), commonly known as Johan Cruyff, is a former Dutch footballer and manager. He was named European Footballer of the Year three times (1971, 1973, 1974) which is a record...
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| x Kenny Dalglish |
Kenneth Mathieson "Kenny" Dalglish MBE (born 4 March, 1951 in Dalmarnock, Glasgow) is a former Scottish international footballer. He is most noted for his successes with Celtic, and both his playing and managing career at English club Liverpool. He...
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| x Marco van Basten |
Marcel "Marco" van Basten (31 October 1964) is a Dutch football manager and former head coach of Eredivisie side AFC Ajax and the Dutch national team. Previously, he was a football player who played for Ajax and A.C. Milan in the 1980s and early...
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| x Ruud Gullit |
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Ruud Gullit (help·info) (born as Ruud Dil, September 1, 1962 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch football coach and former player, who played professionally in the 1980s and 1990s. He was the captain of the Netherlands national team that was victorious at Euro...
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| x Bobby Robson |
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Sir Robert William "Bobby" Robson CBE (18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009) was an English footballer and, after retirement, manager of seven European clubs and the England national team.
His professional playing career as an inside-forward spanned...
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| x Telmo Zarraonaindía |
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Telmo Zarraonandía Montoya (20 January 1921, in Biscay, Basque Country, Spain – 23 February 2006, Bilbao), popularly known as Zarra, was a Basque football player for Athletic Bilbao from 1940 to 1955.
Signing with Athletic after playing one season...
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| x Sven-Göran Eriksson |
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Sven-Göran Eriksson ( [svɛnˈjœːran ˈeːrɪksɔn] (help·info)) born 5 February 1948, in Sweden commonly referred to just by his nickname Svennis , is a Swedish football manager. He is the current director of football for Notts County.
Eriksson was a...
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| x Tony Adams |
Anthony Alexander "Tony" Adams, MBE (born 10 October 1966 in Romford, Greater London) is an English football manager and former defender. He is the former manager of English Premier League side Portsmouth.
Adams spent his entire playing career of 22...
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| x Franz Beckenbauer |
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Franz Anton Beckenbauer (born 11 September 1945) is a German football coach, manager, and former player, nicknamed Der Kaiser ("The Emperor") because of his elegant style, his leadership, his first name "Franz" (reminiscent of the Austrian emperors)...
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| x Billy Wright |
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William Ambrose "Billy" Wright, CBE (6 February 1924 – 3 September 1994) was an English footballer, who spent his whole career at Wolverhampton Wanderers. He made 105 appearances for England, captaining them a record 90 times.
Born in Ironbridge,...
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| x Mick McCarthy |
Michael Joseph "Mick" McCarthy (born 7 February 1959) is an English-born Irish former professional footballer who is currently the manager of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club.
He has previously managed Millwall, Sunderland and the Republic of...
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| x Ferenc Puskás |
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Ferenc Puskás (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈpuʃkaːʃ]; born Ferenc Purczeld Biró; 1 April 1927 – 17 November 2006) was a Hungarian footballer and manager and is regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time. He scored a remarkable...
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| x David Moyes |
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David William Moyes (born 25 April, 1963, in Glasgow, Scotland) is a football manager and former player, currently managing English Premier League club Everton. He was the 2003, 2005 and 2009 League Managers Association Manager of the Year. He is...
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| x Gérard Houllier |
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Gérard Houllier, OBE, (IPA: [ʒeʁaʁ ulje], born 3 September 1947, in Thérouanne, Pas-de-Calais, France) is a French football manager. His past clubs include Paris Saint-Germain, RC Lens and Liverpool, with whom he won the UEFA Cup in 2001. He then...
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| x Roy Keane |
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Roy Maurice Keane (born 10 August 1971) is a retired Irish footballer and the manager of English Championship club Ipswich Town. In his 18-year playing career, he played for Cobh Ramblers in the League of Ireland, Nottingham Forest and Manchester...
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John Charles Gregory (born 11 May 1954 in Scunthorpe) is an English former footballer and manager. He has previously managed Portsmouth, Plymouth Argyle, Wycombe Wanderers, Aston Villa, Derby County and Queens Park Rangers. As a player, he was a...
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| x Lothar Matthäus |
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Lothar Herbert Matthäus German pronunciation: [ˈloːtaɐ̯ maˈtɛːʊs], (born 21 March 1961 in Erlangen, West Germany) is a German former football player and now manager, last managing Israeli club Maccabi Netanya.
In 1990, he was named European...
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| x Jürgen Klinsmann |
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Jürgen Klinsmann (born 30 July 1964 in Göppingen) is a German football manager and former football player, who played for several prominent clubs in Europe and was part of the German team that won the 1990 FIFA World Cup and the 1996 UEFA European...
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| x Herbert Chapman |
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Herbert Chapman (19 January 1878 – 6 January 1934) was an English association football player and manager. Though he had an undistinguished playing career, he went on to become one of the most successful and influential managers in early 20th...
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| x Glenn Hoddle |
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Glenn Hoddle (born 27 October 1957, Hayes, London) is an English football manager and former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, AS Monaco, Chelsea and Swindon Town and at international level for England. However,...
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| x Hristo Stoichkov |
Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov alternatively spelt Stoitchkov (Bulgarian: Христо Стоичков Стоичков) (born 8 February 1966 in Plovdiv) is a football manager and former striker who was a member of the Bulgaria national team that finished fourth at the...
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| x Sandy Martens |
Sandy Martens (born December 23, 1972) is a Belgian football player currently playing for K.A.A. Gent. He is a former Belgium international, with a record of 3 goals in 11 games. He was a successful player for FC Bruges between 1998 and 2003 but has...
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Dennis Frank Wise (born 16 December 1966 in Kensington, West London) is an English former football manager and player, and former Executive Director (Football) at Newcastle United F.C..
Wise played as a central midfielder and was noted for his...
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| x Niall Quinn |
Niall John Quinn (Irish name: Niall Seán Ó Cuinn ) (Honorary) MBE (b. 6 October 1966 in Dublin, Ireland) is a former Irish international footballer, and the current chairman of Sunderland AFC. He is also heavily involved in the management side of...
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| x Gareth Southgate |
Gareth Southgate (born 3 September 1970 in Watford, England) is an English former football player. He served as manager of English Football League Championship side Middlesbrough from June 2006 until he was sacked in October 2009.
His highest...
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Stephen Roger "Steve" Bruce (born 31 December 1960) is an English football manager and former player. Born in Corbridge, Northumberland, he was a promising schoolboy footballer but was rejected by a number of professional clubs. He was on the verge...
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| x Graham Taylor |
Graham Taylor OBE (born 15 September 1944, Worksop, Nottinghamshire) is a football manager and a former player. He is best known as the manager of the England national football team, as well as being manager of Watford, a club he took from the...
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| x Daniel Passarella |
Daniel Alberto Passarella (born 25 May 1953 in Chacabuco, Buenos Aires province) is a former Argentine football centre back and former manager of the Argentine and Uruguayan national football teams. He was captain of the Argentina team that won the...
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Arthur Antunes Coimbra (Portuguese pronunciation: [axˈtux ɐ̃ˈtũnis koˈĩbrɐ]; born 3 March 1953 in Rio de Janeiro), better known as Zico ([ˈziku]), is a Brazilian coach and former footballer. Often called the White Pelé, he is commonly considered one...
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| x Didier Deschamps |
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Didier Claude Deschamps French pronunciation: [didje deˈʃɑ̃]) (born 15 October 1968 in Bayonne), is a former French football player who captained France to victories in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000.
After a short passage at rugby in the...
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| x Jean-Pierre Papin |
Jean-Pierre Papin (born November 5, 1963 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) is a French professional football player who was European Footballer of the Year in 1991.
Papin achieved his greatest success while playing for Olympique Marseille between 1986 and 1992....
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| x Frank Rijkaard |
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Franklin Edmundo Rijkaard (born 30 September 1962) is a Dutch football manager and former player. Rijkaard has played for Ajax, Real Zaragoza and Milan, and represented his national side 73 times, scoring 10 goals. In his coaching career, he has...
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| x Claudio Ranieri |
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Claudio Ranieri, (born 20 October 1951 in Rome, Italy) is a former Italian football player and current manager of AS Roma.
Ranieri first signed as a professional football player with AS Roma, though in his two seasons with the club he only made six...
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| x Don Revie |
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Donald George 'Don' Revie, OBE, (10 July 1927 – 26 May 1989), was a footballer for Leicester City, Hull City, Sunderland, Manchester City and Leeds United as a deep-lying centre forward. After managing Leeds United (1961-1974) with great success,...
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| x Bruce Grobbelaar |
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Bruce David Grobbelaar (born 6 October 1957 in Durban, South Africa) is a former Rhodesian-Zimbabwean-British football goalkeeper. He played for a number of clubs, most notably Liverpool F.C. during their dominant period in the 1980s.
In his teenage...
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| x Fabio Capello |
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Fabio Capello (born 18 June 1946) is an Italian football manager and former professional player. He is the current manager of the England national football team, having started the role in January 2008 after the dismissal of Steve McClaren,who was...
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| x Jackie Milburn |
John Edward Thompson 'Jackie' Milburn, (11 May 1924 – 9 October 1988), also known to fans as Wor Jackie and 'the first World Wor' in reference to his global fame, was a football player for Newcastle United and England. ("Wor" in the Geordie dialect...
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| x Mário Zagallo |
Mário Jorge Lobo Zagallo (born August 9, 1931 in Maceió) is a Brazilian football coach and former player with Syriac heritage.
Zagallo started his footballer career in América in 1948 . He was the first footballer to win the World Cup as a player ...
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| x Tommy Lawton |
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Tommy Lawton (6 October 1919 - 6 November 1996) was an English association footballer who rose to fame a short time before the outbreak of the Second World War and enjoyed a successful career which lasted until well into the 1950s.
Born in Farnworth...
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| x José Mourinho |
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José Mário dos Santos Félix Mourinho, GOIH (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈzɛ moˈɾiɲu]; born 26 January 1963) is a Portuguese football manager. He is the current manager of Italian Serie A team Internazionale, to whom he is contracted for the...
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| x Luiz Felipe Scolari |
Luiz Felipe Scolari, ComIH (born 9 November 1948 in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul), also known as Felipão ("Big Phil") in Brazil and sometimes in Portugal, is a World Cup-winning Brazilian football manager who is currently managing FC Bunyodkor of...
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| x Bora Milutinović |
Velibor "Bora" Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic: Велибор Милутиновић - Бора) (born September 7, 1944 in Bajina Bašta, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a Serbo-Mexican football coach and former player; he has been the coach of Iraq since 8 April 2009 until June...
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| x Terry Venables |
Terence Frederick 'Terry' Venables (born 6 January 1943 in Dagenham, London), often referred to as 'El Tel', is a football manager and former player. He most notably played for Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers, and gained two caps...
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| x Ronald Koeman |
Ronald Koeman (born 21 March 1963 in Zaandam, Noord-Holland) is a former Dutch footballer and current manager of AZ. He is the younger brother of former Feyenoord coach Erwin Koeman and the son of former Dutch international Martin Koeman. He was...
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| x Gianluca Vialli |
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Gianluca Vialli (born 9 July 1964 in Cremona) is a retired Italian football striker and manager. Vialli started his career at Cremonese in 1980 in his native Italy where he made 105 league appearances scoring 23 goals. His performances impressed...
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Leslie Mark Hughes (born 1 November 1963 in Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales), nicknamed Sparky, is a former Welsh international football player and currently manager of Manchester City. As an international footballer, he made 72 appearances and scored 16...
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| x Oleg Blokhin |
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Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin (born 5 November 1952 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian football coach of mixed Ukrainian (by mother) and Russian (by father) ethnicity who was formerly a striker for the Soviet national team. He was named European Footballer of...
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| x Harry Redknapp |
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Henry James "Harry" Redknapp (born 2 March 1947) is an English former footballer who has had a long career in football management. He is the manager of Tottenham Hotspur, a club in the English Premier League.
He had previously managed A.F.C....
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| x Matthias Sammer |
Matthias Sammer (born September 5, 1967 in Dresden) is a retired German football player who is now a coach. He played as a midfielder, and later in his career as a sweeper.
He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1996, the year he led...
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| x Viv Anderson |
Vivian Alexander Anderson MBE (born 29 August 1956 in Clifton, Nottingham) is an English football player and coach, who played for clubs including Nottingham Forest, Arsenal, Manchester United and Sheffield Wednesday in the 1970s and 1980s. He is...
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| x Roberto Donadoni |
Roberto Donadoni (born 9 September 1963) is former Italian international footballer and former manager of Serie A club Napoli.
An attacking midfielder or winger known for pace and technique, he was a pillar of the powerhouse AC Milan teams of the...
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| x Guido Buchwald |
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Guido Buchwald (born January 24, 1961) is a German former football defender and manager.
The best game of Buchwald's career was probably the final of the 1990 FIFA World Cup when he effectivelly marked the skilled footballer, Diego Maradona, earning...
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| x Liam Brady |
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Liam "Chippy" Brady (born 13 February 1956 in Dublin) is a former Irish football player, who is now the assistant manager of the Republic of Ireland senior team. Brady is also head of Youth Development at Arsenal, and was a frequent television...
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| x Dan Petrescu |
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Daniel Vasile Petrescu (born 22 December 1967 in Bucharest, Romania) is a former romanian international football player most famous for having played for the English Premiership club Chelsea. Other clubs included Steaua Bucureşti and Sheffield...
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| x Ricardo Fuller |
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Ricardo Dwayne Fuller (born 31 October 1979) is a Jamaican football player who currently plays as a striker for Premier League club Stoke City and for the Jamaica national football team.
Fuller was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and began his career...
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| x Brian Little |
Brian Little (born 25 November 1953 in Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English former football player and manager who is currently the manager of Conference North outfit Gainsborough Trinity. Litte has previously managed Darlington, Leicester City, Aston...
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| x Maurice Malpas |
Maurice Daniel Robert Malpas (born 3 August 1962 in Dunfermline) is the assistant manager at Inverness Caledonian Thistle having joined the club on 27 January 2009 along with their new manager Terry Butcher. He spent his entire professional playing...
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| x David O'Leary |
David Anthony O'Leary is an Irish football manager and former player. He is currently without a job, after leaving his position as manager of Aston Villa in July 2006. His managerial career began at Leeds United and later he managed Aston Villa. The...
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