Dunga

Dunga as coach of Brazil (2006)

Carlos Caetano Bledorn Verri called Dunga ( born October 31, 1963 in Ijuí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil ) is a football coach and was in his previous players career captain of the Brazilian national football team, the 1994 world champion and 1998 runner-up. With the SC Internacional and CR Vasco da Gama, he won several regional championships. The mid-1990s he played in the Bundesliga for VfB Stuttgart. As a coach, he won the Copa America with Brazil in 2007, the Confederations Cup in 2009 and led the national team to the quarter-finals of the football World Cup in 2010.

His nickname Dunga he received from his uncle after the dwarf Dunga, one of the seven dwarfs from the Portuguese version of the fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm. In Brazil it is called also "o inglês " ( the Germans).

Playing career

Dunga began his footballing career as a defensive midfielder at Sport Club Internacional in Porto Alegre, Brazil. With Internacional he won the state championship of Rio Grande do Sul from 1982 to 1984 three times in a row before he moved to Corinthians. About the Santos he came to CR Vasco da Gama in 1987 and won with the team the state championship in Rio de Janeiro.

His international career began in 1983 at the U20 World Cup in Mexico. Brazil was Dunga as captain junior world champion with a 1-0 victory over Argentina in the final in front of 110,000 spectators at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. A year later Dunga won with the Brazilian Olympic team silver medal at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. He was then appointed to the Brazilian national team.

In 1987 he moved to Italy to newly promoted to Serie A, Pisa Calcio. After reaching the Class preservation with Pisa, he joined the following year Fiorentina, where he played until 1992 and moved into the 1989/90 season in the UEFA Cup final. With the national team he won during this time, the Copa América in 1989 and participated in the 1990 World Cup in Italy, where he was seen with his sober and results-oriented football in the home as one of the main scapegoats after the second round -off against Argentina.

In the 1992/93 season he played for one year at Pescara Calcio before the VfB Stuttgart the then 29 -year-old Dunga undertook in the summer of 1993 for four million mark by the Italian Erstligaabsteiger. The Brazilian national team would allow the Swabians the return to the international business, which did not succeed. After the seventh and twelve as well as 53 league games in which he shot seven goals for VfB, he joined in the summer of 1995 for two million marks release in the Japanese J. League to Júbilo Iwata.

After Dunga was initially not nominated after the World Cup from 1990 for the Brazilian national team, Carlos Alberto Parreira took him ahead of the 1994 World Cup back to the Seleção. At the Championships in the USA, he was captain of the team that won the fourth World Cup for Brazil, 24 years after the last triumph.

With Jubilo Iwata Dunga took 1997 his first and only national championship titles in his career. In the same year he won the Brazilian national team for the second time in the Copa América. A year later, he played his third world championship at the 1998 World Cup in France. Along with his longtime companion Taffarel Dunga moved again to the final. After a total of 91 completed international matches and scored six goals for Brazil, he finished with the 0:3 in the final against hosts France his career in the Seleção.

From 1999 to 2000 he trailed off his career with his hometown club Sport Club Internacional in Brazil.

Coaching career

Dunga was on 24 July 2006 coach of the Brazilian national team. He entered it - without any experience as a trainer - the successor to the after the disappointing cutting off the Brazilian team came back in the Football World Cup 2006 Carlos Alberto Parreira on. His debut as coach of the Seleção he had on 16 August in a friendly against Norway in Oslo, which ended in a 1-1 draw.

In 2007 defended the Brazilian team that won the Copa América two years earlier. After a 6-1 quarter-final victory over Chile, the Seleção reached the final with a victory on penalties against Uruguay. There, the Brazilians put 3-0 against arch-rivals Argentina, which the whole country was infected by a euphoria about the team. By winning the Copa America, Brazil also secured a place at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa, the team under Dunga's line also won.

At the Olympic Games in Beijing, the Argentines could return the favor in the semi-finals and defeat the coached by Dunga Brazilian Olympic Team in which were several A-National player, 3-0. For Brazil, it was enough for the bronze medal. Then Dunga's resignation was demanded in the Brazilian press. The Brazilian Football Federation was, however, to his coach.

After the Seleção in the first round which was originally the favorites counted team of Portugal pointed at the soccer World Cup 2010 to second place and defeated in the second round of Chile, the team Dunga failed but after they had already made ​​the quarter-finals with 1:2 at the Netherlands. Immediately after the game, he resigned from his post as head coach, the separation was confirmed by CBF on July 4, 2010.

Dunga had in the national team a new style towards a controlled, efficient game and therefore tracked a departure from the traditional pure attack-minded style of play. Similarly, the footballing beautiful to look at, but not always, results-oriented style of play was pushed into the background. These Dunga had dispensed with stars like Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Alexandre Pato and Adriano. This realignment was encountered in the Brazilian public at large criticism.

From December 2012 to October 2013, he coached his former club SC Internacional, where he began and ended his playing career. His first club title he won in May 2013 with the Campeonato Gaucho. ( Final 2-1 against Juventude ) In October of the same year he was released after a series of defeats.

Achievements

• World Cup 1994
• Vice World Champion 1998
• Confederations Cup winners 1997
• Olympic silver medal in 1984
• Copa América 1989 and 1997
• National Champion of Rio Grande do Sul with Internacional in 1982, 1983, 1984
• National Champion of Rio de Janeiro with Vasco da Gama in 1987
• J. League championship with Júbilo Iwata 1997

• Copa America 2007
• Olympic bronze medal in 2008
• Confederations Cup winners 2009
• National Champion of Rio Grande do Sul with Internacional 2013

Awards

• J. League Player of the Year 1997