Vanderlei Luxemburgo

Vanderlei Luxemburgo da Silva, also known as Wanderley Luxemburgo, ( born May 10, 1952 in Nova Iguaçu) is a Brazilian football coach. As a player he had in the 1970s with the success CR Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro. From the 1980s he became the most successful coach of the Brazilian football history. He won five times the national championship with four different clubs. He also won twelve national championships. With the Brazilian national football team he won the 1999 Copa América.

  • 2.1 Players
  • 2.2 Coaches

Career

Player

Born in the industrial north-west Nova Iguaçu Rio de Janeiro Luxemburgo started to play football in the late 1960s in the state capital in youth Botafogo FR, where she won from 1968 to 1970 three state championships in series in his age group.

In 1971, the still 18 -year-old left winger for great local rivals Flamengo, where he soon built as a regular player. At first he was was also used in youth and won in 1971 and 1972, the State Championships. With the youth national team he won the 1973 and 1974 junior tournament in the South of France Cannes and served as team captain. With the first team Flamengo, he won in 1972, 1974 and 1978 state championships and 1972 Torneio do Povo. From 1974 he had at Flamengo strong with the later 70 times national player Júnior competition at his position.

After the championship of 1978, he moved to SC Internacional in Porto Alegre, for which he but hardly used. In 1980 he finished his turn at Botafogo player career.

Coach

From 30 December 2004 to 4 December 2005, he coached Real Madrid. Prior to his move to Madrid Luxemburgo worked at Pele club FC Santos as coach. With Santos, he had just won the Brazilian National Championship, as before with three other clubs, which is still a record in Brazil.

Achievements

Player

  • State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: in 1972, 1974, 1978

Coach

National

  • Copa América: 1999

Clubs

  • Master of Brazil: 1993, 1994, 1998, 2003, 2004
  • Cup of Brazil: 2003
  • Torneio Rio - São Paulo: 1993, 1997
  • State Championship of São Paulo: ( 8x) 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008
  • State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: 1991
  • State of Minas Gerais Championship: 2003, 2010
  • State Championship of Espiritu Santo: 1983
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