The winning world cup managers

In this article we look at the managers who have won the world cup

Lets see the winning managers, the tournament and the nationality

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Summary

Alberto Suppici led the Uruguay national team to victory in the inaugural tournament in 1930. He is also the youngest manager to have ever won the world cup as manager at 31. As a comparison Vicente del Bosque is the oldest coach to win the World Cup, being aged 59 in 2010

Vittorio Pozzo is the only person who has won the World Cup twice as a manager, in 1934 and 1938 with Italy

Juan López Fontana was the first manager to manage a national team to World Cup victory without having had a prior professional football career. He managed the Uruguay national team in the 1950 to victory; then the Brazilian managers Vicente Feola and Carlos Alberto Parreira managed the Brazilian national team.

In fact the winning managers have only led their own country’s national team there has never been a country that has won with someone from another country

Three men have won the tournament both as a player and as a manager, namely Mario Zagallo (as a player in 1958 and 1962, as a manager in 1970), Franz Beckenbauer (as a player in 1974, as a manager in 1990) and then finally Didier Deschamps (as a player in 1998, as a manager in 2018)

Thats some facts on the world cup winning managers – will any of these change with the 2022 world cup