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Top 10 best football coaches of the 21st century

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1. Vicente del Bosque

Vicente del Bosque González, born 23 December 1950, is a Spanish former footballer and football manager. He was the head coach of the Spanish national team from 2008 to 2016. He was also the head coach of Real Madrid from 1999 to 2003, during which time he helped Real Madrid win two UEFA Champions Leagues.

Joining Real Madrid from 1964 to 2003, in his four seasons in charge, Vicente del Bosque led the club through a period of success with two UEFA Champions League titles, two La Liga titles, one Spanish Super Cup, one European Super Cup and one Intercontinental Cup. Del Bosque replaced Luis Aragonés as Spain manager after the team won Euro 2008. Under del Bosque, Spain began their successful 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign with 10 wins. At the 2010 World Cup, Spain won the tournament after defeating the Netherlands in the final. Two years later, he and Spain won Euro 2012, finishing the tournament unbeaten. After Euro 2016, he left the Spanish national team after eight years with the Spanish national team.
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2. Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alexander Ferguson (born 31 December 1944) is a former Scottish football player and manager. He helped Manchester United become one of the two greatest football clubs in English history with 20 domestic championships. On 12 June 1999, Ferguson was knighted by the Queen for his contributions to the country's football. He is considered one of the best and greatest football coaches in history. He topped Four Four Two's list of the 100 greatest coaches of all time. Belonging to the previous generation of coaches and a monument of the 20th century football village, Sir Alex Ferguson continued to lead Manchester United until 2013. Throughout his career, Sir Alex Ferguson won the highest tournament in the foggy country 13 times, including 8 championships from 2000 to 2013. At that time, Manchester United was the strongest force in the EPL.

With nearly 27 years with the Manchester United team, he is the longest-serving coach in the history of the club after surpassing the record of Sir Matt Busby on December 19, 2010. His tenure is also the longest tenure compared to all current football coaches in the world. During this time, Ferguson won many awards and held many records including winning the most Coach of the Year titles in the history of English football.

On May 8, 2013, Sir Alex Ferguson announced that he would retire after the end of the 2012-13 season. Thanks to Sir Alex's excellent management and van Persie's timely goal to save the team. It was a beautiful farewell to Alex Ferguson. The 71-year-old coach retired at the end of the season due to health reasons and to take care of his family.
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3. Pep Guardiola

Josep Pep Guardiola (born 18 January 1971) is a Spanish former footballer and current football manager. He is currently the head coach of Manchester City. Often regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, he holds the record for the most consecutive wins in La Liga, Bundesliga and Premier League.

After retiring as a player, Pep briefly coached Barcelona B, where he won the Tercera División title and took charge of the first team in 2008. In his first season as first team coach, he led Barcelona to a treble of La Liga, Copa del Rey and UEFA Champions League. In doing so, Pep Guardiola became the youngest coach to win a European competition. In 2011, after leading the club to another La Liga and Champions League double, he was awarded the Catalan parliament's highest honour, the Gold Medal. That same year, he was also named FIFA's best coach of the year.

He ended his four-year spell in charge of Barcelona in 2012 with a club record 14 trophies. After a sabbatical, Bayern Munich announced that Pep would take over as head coach in 2013. Since Pep left the Bavarians for Manchester City in 2016, the talented Spaniard has led them to their second Premier League title, breaking several domestic records. Helping the team become the first club to reach 100 points in the league. This made Pep the first coach to win the domestic treble. He is currently one of the best football coaches in the world.
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4. Carlo Ancelotti

Carlo Ancelotti (born 10 June 1959) is an Italian former footballer who is currently the manager of Real Madrid. He is the only manager to have won the UEFA Champions League four times (twice with Milan and twice with Real Madrid), and the first manager to reach five finals. He won the FIFA Club World Cup three times with Milan and Real Madrid. Ancelotti is also one of seven people to have won the European Cup as both a player and a manager. He is considered one of the greatest and most successful managers of all time.

In June 2021, Ancelotti returned to the position of head coach of Real Madrid. In his first season back at the club, he helped the team win the Spanish Super Cup by defeating Athletic Bilbao 2-0 in the final. In April 2022, with a 4-0 victory over Espanyol, Real won La Liga for the 35th time in their history. On 28 May 2022, in the final, Ancelotti won the UEFA Champions League for the fourth time in his career after Real defeated Liverpool 1-0 in the final, which was also the 14th championship in the club's history. At the beginning of the 2022-23 season, Ancelotti led Real Madrid to win the European Super Cup for the fifth time, which was also his 8th title there.

He is considered one of the best and most successful coaches of all time. As a coach, Ancelotti has worked for Reggiana, Parma, Juventus, Milan, Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, Napoli and Everton, and has won domestic titles in Italy, England, France, Spain and Germany. He is considered one of the best and most successful coaches of all time.
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5. Zinédine Zidane

Zinedine Yazid Zidane born June 23, 1972, nicknamed Zizou, is a French football coach and former player. After retiring, Zidane returned to Real Madrid to work as an advisor to the club's president and as the club's sporting director. In 2013, Zidane was Real Madrid's assistant coach and contributed to the club's 10th Champions League title in history. In 2014, Zidane was appointed head coach of Real Madrid's youth team. On January 4, 2016, he officially became the head coach of Real Madrid after president Florentino Pérez decided to fire Rafael Benítez. In his first season at the Santiago Bernabeu, Zidane achieved an impressive result with a UEFA Champions League title in 2016 after defeating city rivals Atletico Madrid 5-3 on penalties, after a tense 1-1 draw at San Siro. At the same time, he also helped the team finish second in La Liga.

In 2017, Zidane successfully defended the UEFA Champions League title after helping Real defeat Juventus 4-1 in the final. This was a record, as no team had previously successfully defended the UEFA Champions League title since the tournament was renamed in 1992. In the same season, he also led Real Madrid to win La Liga. In 2018, Zidane continued to defend the Champions League title for the third consecutive time after defeating Liverpool 3-1 in the final. Just 5 days later, he decided to resign in glory.

On March 12, 2019, Zidane returned to lead Real to help the team win La Liga. He resigned as head coach of the club after the 2020-2021 season.
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6. Joachim Low

Joachim Low was born on February 3, 1960 and is currently a football coach, and a former German player. Low was the coach of the German national team from 2006 to 2021. During his tenure, he led the German team to victory in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia. In March 2021, Löw announced that he would step down after Euro 2020.

During the 2008-2010 period, the German team had a beautiful attacking style of play instead of the tight defensive style that people called "German Tanks" as before. The attacking style of play combined with the cohesion of the players and the priority of developing young players of the German team, all of this is largely due to Joachim Low.

At the 2014 World Cup, Joachim Low, along with the German team and many young players reaching their peak, won the World Cup after 24 years since 1990. During the 2008-2014 period, under the leadership of Joachim Low, the German team became a formidable rival to Vicente del Bosque's Spain, thereby Germany replaced Spain to win the championship in 2014. On March 9, 2021, Joachim Low decided to leave the German team after the summer of 2021, coach Low left the hot seat before the contract expired and received consent.
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7. Jose Mourinho

José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix GOIH (European Portuguese; born 26 January 1963) is a Portuguese professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe. He is one of the most decorated managers and is widely considered to be among the greatest managers of all time.[2] Mourinho has won league championships in four different countries, is one of only six managers to have won the European Cup with two different clubs, and is the only manager to have won all three current UEFA club competitions.

After an uneventful career as a midfielder in the Portuguese leagues, Mourinho finished playing at age 24 and moved into coaching.[3][4][5][6] He was first an interpreter for Bobby Robson at Sporting CP and FC Porto, before gaining success as an assistant at Barcelona under Robson and then his successor, Louis van Gaal. After brief stints as manager at Benfica and União de Leiria, Mourinho returned to Porto in 2002, winning two Primeira Liga titles, the Taça de Portugal, the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Champions League. That success earned him a move to England with Chelsea in 2004, where he famously remarked "I think I'm a special one" at his first press conference, which led to the British media dubbing him "The Special One". With Chelsea, Mourinho won two Premier League titles, an FA Cup and two League Cups in three seasons, before he departed in 2007 amid reports of disagreements with owner Roman Abramovich.[7]
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8. Jurgen Klopp

Jurgen Klopp (born 16 June 1967) is a German former footballer and football manager. Klopp is currently the head coach of Premier League club Liverpool. After retiring from playing at Mainz 05, Klopp was appointed as the club's manager on 27 February 2001. At the end of the 2006-07 season, Mainz 05 were relegated, but Klopp decided to stay with the club. However, with Klopp and the board unable to reach an agreement, he resigned at the end of the 2007-08 season. In May 2008, Klopp was approached to become the manager of Borussia Dortmund, who had just had a disappointing season, finishing 13th in the table.

In the 2011–12 season, under his guidance, Dortmund became the team with the most points in a Bundesliga season with 81, and 47 points in the Bundesliga return leg to set a new record. Borussia Dortmund's 25th win of the season equalled Bayern Munich's 1972–73 record, while their 28-match unbeaten run in the Bundesliga was the best ever recorded in the German top flight. On 12 May 2012, Klopp made history by beating Bayern Munich 5–2 in the DFB-Pokal final to win the domestic double. He described the achievement as 'Better than you could have imagined'.

In April 2015, Klopp announced that he would leave Borussia Dortmund at the end of the 2014–15 season to take a sabbatical. His final match as Dortmund manager was the 2015 German Cup Final, which Dortmund lost 3–1 to VfL Wolfsburg. He finished with a record of 179 wins, 69 draws and 70 losses. On 8 October 2015, Jürgen Klopp agreed a three-year contract to become head coach of Liverpool. Less than a year later, Klopp led Liverpool to their first European Cup final since 2007 by beating Villarreal 3–1 on aggregate in the semi-finals. In the final, Liverpool faced defending champions Sevilla and lost 3–1 despite Daniel Sturridge scoring the opening goal for 'The Kop' in the first half. On 8 July 2016, Klopp and his coaching staff signed a contract extension to keep them at the club until 2022.
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9. Didier Deschamps

Didier Deschamps (born 15 October 1968) is a French football manager and former player. He is currently the head coach of the French national team. As a player, he played for many famous clubs such as Marseille, Juventus, Chelsea, Valencia and Nantes and Bordeaux. After retiring as a player, he moved into football management.

Before leading the French national team, Didier Deschamps had led Monaco, Marseille and Juventus. He helped Juventus win Serie B to return to Serie A. Didier Deschamps also made history by leading the small Monaco side to the Champions League final in 2004, and was named Ligue 1 Coach of the Year that same year. He then took charge of his former club, Marseille, where he won the Ligue 1 title in the 2009–10 season, as well as consecutive French League Cups from 2010 to 2012, and consecutive Trophée des Champions titles in 2010 and 2011.

After being appointed as the new coach of the French national team in 2012, Deschamps led the team to the quarter-finals of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, the final of UEFA Euro 2016, and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Deschamps became the third person to win the World Cup as both a player and a coach, joining Mário Zagallo and Franz Beckenbauer.
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10. Luiz Felipe Scolari

Luiz Felipe Scolari (born November 9, 1948) is a Brazilian football coach of Italian descent. He led the Brazilian national team to the 2002 World Cup. He is currently the coach of SE Palmeiras in Brazil. In 1982, he retired from football and became a coach.

His first club was CSA and in his first season, he helped the club win the Alagoano state championship. He then moved on to coach a series of other clubs such as Juventude, Brasil de Pelotas and Al-Shabab from 1983 to 1987. Luiz Felipe Scolari became the coach of Grêmio, and won the Gaúcho state championship that same year. He then coached many teams such as Kuwait, Palmeiras, Brazil, Portugal, Chelsea FC, Bunyodkor. On 28 November 2012, after more than 2 months without leading a club, Scolari returned to coach the Brazil team. In the final of the 2013 Confederations Cup, he led Brazil to defeat Spain 3-0, thereby winning the championship.

At the 2014 World Cup, after passing the group stage, Brazil eliminated two other South American teams, Chile and Colombia, in the round of 16 and the quarter-finals, the unforgettable defeat was being defeated by Germany with a record score of 7-1 in the semi-finals. After losing 0-3 to the Netherlands, he was fired. Before this record defeat, Scolari said that this result was 'the worst defeat of the Brazilian national team' and accepted full responsibility for the defeat.
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