In today’s football, the name of the game is simply MONEY! The most successful and biggest teams on the planet spend heavily each season to get the best players to bolster their teams. These players don’t come cheap as they cost several hundreds of Millions in dollars. They are not only one. The coaches who put together these guys and mould them into a team also cost a fortune. This is because the world class coaches are scarce but very high in demand. This week, we take a look into what the World’s top Coaches earn.
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1. LUIZ FELIPE SCOLARI
Luiz Felipe Scolari is a European Portuguese. He is also known as Felipão in Brazil and internationally as Big Phil, is a World Cup-winning Brazilian football manager. He earns €16.6 million. Scolari was born in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul. He recently resigned as the Head Coach of the Brazilian team after their disastrous 2014 World Cup campaign. Scolari followed in the footsteps of his father Benjamin, who was also a Brazilian professional footballer. He also served as the manager of the Portuguese national team from 12 July 2003 to 30 June 2008. As Portugal’s manager, he led them to the UEFA Euro 2004 Final, which they lost one nil to Greece in an upset, as well as leading them to a fourth place in the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He was succeeded by Carlos Queiroz on 5 July 2008. His playing career encompassed spells with Caxias, Juventude, Novo Hamburgo, and CSA.
2. JOSÉ MÁRIO DOS SANTOS MOURINHO FÉLIX
José Mário dos Santos Mourinho Félix, OIH, or simply José Mourinho was born 26 January 1963, is a Portuguese football manager, currently the head coach of Chealsea in the EPL. He earns €11.0 million He is commonly known as “The Special One”. Mourinho is regarded by some players, coaches, and critics as one of the best football coaches of all time. Mourinho started out as a player and eventually switched to management.
3. FABIO CAPELLO
Fabio Capello was born June 18, 1946 and is an Italian football manager and former professional footballer who is currently the manager of the Russian national team. He earns€11.0 million. He played as a midfielder and won several trophies during his career which lasted over 15 years. He won the Coppa Italia with Roma in 1969. He was most successful with Juventus, winning three Serie A in 1972, 1973, and 1975. With Milan he won the Coppa Italia again in 1977 and also won another Serie A in 1979. Capello also played for Italy during his career and amassed 32 caps, scoring eight goals as well. As a manager. In his first five seasons as a manager he won four Serie A titles with Milan, where he also won the 1993/94 UEFA Champions League, defeating Barcelona 4-0 in a memorable final. He then spent a year at Real Madrid, where he won the La Liga title at his first attempt, and in 2001 led Roma to their first league title in 18 years. Overall he has won a major league championship in seven of his 16 seasons as a coach.
4. ROBERTO MANCINI
Roberto Mancini was born on November 27, 1964 is an Italian former football player and former manager of Premier League club Manchester City and lately, Galatasaray in Turkey. He earns €6.0 million As a player Mancini was best known for his time at Sampdoria, where he played more than 550 matches, and helped them win the Serie A league title, four Coppa Italias and the Cup Winners Cup, while being capped 36 times by Italy. As a player, he gained a penchant for becoming a future manager and would often give team talks at half-time and ultimately became an assistant to Sven-Göran Eriksson at Lazio near the end of his playing career. After his retirement, Mancini embarked on a successful managerial career. In the 2011/12 season, Mancini guided Manchester City to the club’s first league title in 44 years, in an enthralling last day of the season, winning 32, with two goals in injury time in what was called “the best match of the best last day of the season in English football history”.
5. CARLO MICHELANGELO ANCELOTTI
Carlo Michelangelo Ancelotti was born on June 10, 1959 is an Italian football manager, and the current manager of Real Madrid CF in the Spanish La Liga.. He earns €6.0 million. Nicknamed Carletto, Ancelotti played as a midfielder and had a successful career with Roma captaining the team with whom he won one Scudetto and four Coppa Italia honors and was part of the legendary late 1980s Milan team with whom he won two Scudetti and two European Cups in a five-year period. He was capped 26 times and scored one goal for the Italian national team and appeared at the 1986 and 1990 World Cups. After spells as manager of Reggiana, Parma and Juventus, Ancelotti was appointed Milan manager in 2001. They were also Serie A and Champions League runner-ups in 2005. He is one of six men to have won the European Cup/Champions League as player and manager.
6. MANUEL LUIS PELLEGRINI RIPAMONTI
Manuel Luis Pellegrini Ripamonti was born on September 16,1953 is a Chilean manager and former footballer. He earns €5.5 million. His current club is Manchester City in the EPL. As a coach, he has managed teams mostly in Spain, Argentina, and Chile. San Lorenzo de Almagro obtained their first international title while Pellegrini was manager. He started coaching Universidad de Chile during the 1988 season, in which the team was relegated to Second Division. In 1993, he became coach of Universidad Catolica, one of the most popular football clubs from Chile, where he had an amazing team with players such as Alberto Acosta and Nestor Gorosito, but he could only finish as runner-up during 1994 and 1995 seasons. Pellegrini coached Ecuadorian club LDU Quito to a national title in 1999, starting a tradition of coaches that followed him to the Ecuadorian team. He had a good presentation in Copa Libertadores with the team that put him in the eye of GMs of other South American teams.
7. LOUIS VAN GAAL
Louis van Gaal was born on August 8, 1951 is a Dutch football manager who is the current manager of Manchester United in the EPL. He earns €5.2 million. He was formerly coach for Ajax, Barcelona, AZ and Bayern Munich. Before his career as coach, Van Gaal played as a midfielder for Royal Antwerp, Telstar, Sparta Rotterdam and AZ. Van Gaal is also a fully qualified gymnastics teacher, and has worked as such at high-schools during various stages of his career as a semi-professional football-player.As a coach he is known as a slow starter who frequently finds his players needing ample time to grasp his tactics and intent of play. Generally his teams gather results in the second or third season under his coaching, an exception being the 2009/10 season when he grasped the German Bundesliga title and lost the UEFA Champions League final with FC Bayern Munich.
8. JOSEP “PEP” GUARDIOLA I SALA
Guardiola is a Spanish former footballer who is the current manager of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich. Guardiola played as a defensive midfielder and spent the majority of his career with Barcelona, forming a part of Johan Cruyff’s “dream team” that won Barcelona’s first European Cup in 1992, and captaining the team from 1997 to 2001. He also played for Brescia and Roma in Italy, Al-Ahli in Qatar, and Dorados de Sinaloa in Mexico while training to be a manager. While playing in Italy, he served a four-month ban for a positive drug test, although he was cleared of wrongdoing twice on appeal in 2009 before the Courts of Justice of the Italian Football Federation and the Federal Anti-Doping Courts of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI). He was capped 47 times for Spain, winning the Olympic Gold Medal in 1992, and also played friendly matches for Catalonia.
After retiring as a player, Guardiola became coach of Barcelona B, and in 2008 he succeeded Frank Rijkaard as the first team manager. In his first season as manager, Guardiola guided Barcelona to a treble, winning La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Champions League. In doing so, Guardiola became the youngest manager to win the Champions League. The following season, Guardiola led Barcelona to win the Supercopa de España, the UEFA Super Cup, and the FIFA Club World Cup, bringing his tally to the maximum of six trophies out of six competitions in one year, thus achieving the sextuple. In 2011, Guardiola was awarded the Catalan Parliament’s Gold Medal, their highest honour. That same year, Guardiola was also named the FIFA World Coach of the Year. On 30 June 2012, Guardiola announced his retirement as Barcelona manager, after winning 14 trophies in just four years in charge of the club. After a sabbatical period, Bayern Munich announced on 16 January 2013 that Guardiola would join the club as manager for the 201314 season following the retirement of Jupp Heynckes. In his first season at the club, Guardiola won the Bundesliga, the DFB-Pokal, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup.
9. GUUS HIDDINK
Guus Hiddink was born on November 8, 1946. He is a Dutch football manager and former player. He earns €5.0 million. He is currently the new Netherlands coach after the World Cup exit of Louis Van Gaal. He is considered to be one of the best managers of his generation and was the best-paid coach in international football in 2009. His achievements include winning the European treble with PSV Eindhoven; taking both the Netherlands and South Korea to a fourth place finish in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and 2002 FIFA World Cup respectively; leading Australia to their best ever finish in the 2006 FIFA World Cup; leading Russia to the semi-finals of Euro 2008, Russia’s best performance since the breakup of the Soviet Union; and leading Chelsea to an FA Cup win against Everton in 2009. Hiddink has also previously managed Fenerbahçe, Valencia, and Real Madrid.
10. ARSÈNE WENGER
Arsène Wenger was born on October 22, 1949 and is a French football manager who is currently head coach of the English Premier League side Arsenal. He earns €4.8 million. He is the club’s longest-serving manager and, having led Arsenal to 11 trophies since 1996, he is Arsenal’s most successful manager in terms of major titles won. He has faced criticism for sticking closely to his principles, and football pundits have questioned his ambition to win trophies in recent years.
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