Mano Menezes
Luiz Antonio Venker de Menezes ( born July 11, 1962 in Passo do Sobrado ) is a Brazilian football coach. From July 2010 to November 2012 he coached the Brazilian national football team.
Career
Club coach
Menezes played in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a defender for the southern Brazilian club Guarani de Venâncio Aires. But early on, he gave up the active career to work as a trainer can. The mid-1980s he was part of the coaching staff of SESI from Rio Grande do Sul, where he worked as a fitness trainer before he hired in the same position in his parent club Guarani de Venâncio Aires in 1986. At EC Juventude and Internacional of Porto Alegre Menezes gained more experience in the following years. In 1997 he became the first head coaching job at Venâncio Aires, he occupied until 2002. After a brief spell at Grêmio Esportivo Brasil, he returned soon to leave the club again in 2003 and signed with Club Iraty sport.
In the same year he moved the football coach for Clube 15 de Novembro from the southern Brazilian city of Campo Bom, with whom he reached the final of the state championship of Rio Grande do Sul, but there failed. 2004 saw the club as a surprise team to the semifinals of the Copa do Brasil.
Gremio
Between 2004 and 2005, Menezes was briefly manager of SER Caxias do Sul, before 2005 coach of Gremio became the new season. With his new club secured with the state championship of Rio Grande do Sul, the first title of his coaching career. In the battle for the Brazilian championship team third behind São Paulo FC and SC Internacional and was qualified for the Copa Libertadores. In the following year he repeated the success in the competition for the state championship. In addition, the collection came in the final of the Copa Libertadores in 2007., Where the team was defeated with 0:3 and 0:2 against the Argentine representative CA Boca Juniors.
SC Corinthians Paulista
For the new season Menezes took over the position of head coach at the traditional club SC Corinthians Paulista, who was then in the Série B, the second division, played. Right away Menezes brought the club back to the Brazilian House of Lords after the team won the 2008 Campeonato Brasileiro Série B. Here, the club dominated the league and had in the final with 85 points reached seventeen points more than the runner EC Santo André. With the attackers Dentinho and Germán Herrera Menezes formed a powerful duo that brought the team on track. Even in the aftermath of the football coach was successful.
After the club was able to win the state championship in 2009 in São Paulo, he led his team into the final of the Copa do Brasil. The team won the title after a 2-0 win and a 2-2 draw against SC Internacional. It was the third title of the club in this tournament. Despite Table 10th in the league, the club managed due to the Cup win to qualify for the Copa Libertadores 2010. In the group stage the team remained unharmed loss point free except for the 1-1 draw against Independiente Medellín, however, different in the second round of the competition.
National
In July 2010 it was announced that Menezes new coach of the Brazilian national team is. After a disappointing 2010 World Cup, he took over this post by Carlos Dunga. His successor at Corinthians was Adílson Batista.
However, Menezes was only second choice since Muricy Ramalho had held the office previously rejected. For his first international match as head coach, where he was a pause most World Cup riders and did not appeal, Menezes nominated with Victor, Renan, Jefferson, Rafael, David Luiz, Réver, Jucilei, Ganso, Ederson, Andre and Neymar eleven players that had yet been no national use. Many more Akteuere had been completed only a few games in the dress of the Seleção. On 10 August 2010 he was first responsible for the Brazilian selection in the 2-0 friendly win against the United States.
On the way to the Copa America 2011 in Argentina, he nominated a total of 57 players. Added to this was Ronaldo, who was on his farewell match against Romania on June 7, 2011 at the squad. Menezes had managed to rejuvenate the team on average within one year. Youngest player in the squad for the Copa America were a then 19 -year-old Neymar and the 18 -year-old Lucas. There were two players who would have been even eligible to play for a youth team of CBF with Paulo Henrique Ganso and Alexandre Pato.
2011 and 2012 he won with Brazil and Argentina, respectively the games to the Superclássico the Americas, which will be held from teams without their gambling abroad actors. 2012, the Seleção in the return leg in Buenos Aires was able to prevail in a penalty shoot-out. Two days later he was released. In the 35 games under his leadership, Brazil won 23 times, and also recorded six draws and defeats. He was succeeded by Luiz Felipe Scolari, who won with the Seleção the world title in 2002.
CR Flamengo
For the 2012/13 season Menezes succeeds by Jorginho as manager of CR Flamengo.
Achievements
- State Championship in Rio Grande do Sul with Gremio: 2006, 2007
- State championship of Rio Grande do Sul in 2002 with Esporte Clube Guarani
- State Championship of São Paulo with Corinthians São Paulo: 2009
- Copa do Brasil, Corinthians: 2009