Luiz Felipe Scolari

Titled Luiz Felipe Scolari ( born November 9, 1948 in Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul ), in the Portuguese-speaking countries as Felipão ( Big Felipe ), is a former Brazilian football player and current coach.

Private

Scolari is the son of a family of Italian origin who immigrated to Brazil. His native of Venice father Benjamin was in the 1940s as one of the best defensive players in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Scolari also has Italian citizenship.

Coaching career

Club teams and Kuwait

He began in the early 1980s, his coaching career with the provincial club Centro Sportivo Alagoano, with whom he champion of Alagoas in 1982, his first title as a coach. There were several stations in Brazil and with the Saudi Arabian club Al- Shabab, the first job abroad before he coached 1987 Foot -Ball Porto Alegrense from Porto Alegre, one of the most famous Brazilian clubs. But there lingered Scolari only briefly and moved after a year to Goiás EC. After that he went for two years to Kuwait, where he first Al Qadsia Kuwait and then coached the Kuwait national team. In 1991, he returned to his native Brazil to Criciúma EC and won with this team in 1991, the Copa do Brasil and thus his first major title. In the same year he left Brazil again to go to Saudi Arabia and to train the successful club Al- Ahli. Following this came another one-year commitment to his former club Al Qadisiya Kuwait.

1993 Scolari returned again to Brazil and hired a second time at Gremio. There he took in every season a title, the 1994 Cup, 1995, the South American club championship and the 1996 Brazilian championship title. Then the wanderer Scolari went to Japan to Júbilo Iwata and then back to Brazil. He accepted an offer from Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras in São Paulo. There he won the 1998 Brazilian Cup and the Copa Mercosur and Copa Libertadores 1999. In 2000 he left São Paulo in the direction of Belo Horizonte for Cruzeiro Esporte Clube.

Brazilian national

Under Emerson Leão there was for the Seleção increasingly negative results in qualifying for the World Cup in 2002 and a disappointing fourth place in the Confederations Cup 2001. In June 2001, Brazil was finally Scolari coach. First, the Brazilians also disappointed with him and in the quarter- finals of the Copa America 2001 against Honduras. Then succeeded Scolari but to lead the team to the World Cup. The Brazilians were back to old form and won the world title in the final against Germany. After this success, he was elected as World National Coach of the Year in 2002. However, the CBF and the fans were dissatisfied with his work, so he resigned his office shortly after the World Cup final.

Portuguese national Team

From 2003, he coached the Portuguese national football team and came up with the host of the tournament to the finals of the European Football Championship 2004. He was with Otto Rehhagel, the opponent in the final, the first foreign coach who made ​​it to the finals of this competition. In April 2006, he was traded by the British press as a possible successor to the English national coach Sven -Goran Eriksson, but Scolari refused the post. Instead, he extended his contract with the Portuguese Association to Euro 2008. According to the 0-1 semi-final defeat against France in its Portuguese Football World Cup 2006 in Germany Scolari speculated that referee Jorge Larrionda (Uruguay ) been secretly on the side of the French and the game had influenced accordingly. In the final match for the third place on 8 July 2006 in Stuttgart Scolari's team against Germany was defeated with 1:3.

In the European Championship qualifier against Serbia on 12 September 2007, there was a scuffle between Scolari and an opposing player, the Serbs Ivica Dragutinović. In this context, it should have come to a punch in the face by Scolari Dragutinovic. Later Scolari claimed to have only touched the hair of Dragutinovic. When video evidence was found that Scolari has not hit the opposing players because this is dodged in time. He was therefore banned by UEFA for four matches. In the EURO 2008 Scolari led the Portuguese to the quarter finals, but failed there to Germany 2:3 (1:2).

Chelsea FC

On 1 July 2008, Luiz Felipe Scolari coach of FC Chelsea, but was there discharged on 9 February 2009 because his success fell short of expectations.

Bunjodkor Tashkent

In June 2009, Scolari was head coach and director of soccer academy in the Uzbek masters Bunjodkor Tashkent. Due to financial difficulties the club broke its contract Scolari after just one season in May 2010 prematurely.

Palmeiras

After the disappointing performance of the Seleção at the 2010 World Cup Scolari was briefly regarded as the successor of coach Dunga. Instead, he signed a contract running until the end of 2012 with Palmeiras and won with the club in 2012, the Copa do Brasil. After Palmeiras had slipped in mid-September 2012, the second to last place in the table, Scolari's contract was terminated prematurely.

Brazilian national

On November 29, 2012 Scolari took over again the Brazilian national team by six days previously dismissed Mano Menezes. He signed a contract until after the 2014 World Cup in their own country. The board is assisted by former two-time national coach Carlos Alberto Parreira as technical director. With the team he won the Confederations Cup in 2013 with a 3-0 final win against Spain.

Success as a coach

• Brazilian Champion: 1996 with Gremio
• Brazilian Cup winner: 1991 with the Criciúma Esporte Clube
• 1994 Gremio
• 1998 Palmeiras Sao Paulo
• 2012 with Palmeiras Sao Paulo