Best Coach so far..

[LarsSon]

Hands down...it's Klinsmann!!!
Charming as no other and just good decisions. Lehmann over Oliver Kahn ..how can any other disagree than Oliver Kahn himself?

[Marcz]

he's ok, Hiddink for president though

[Sadomin]

I've always liked Scolari, and I still do.

[olafgb]

Klinsmann, although he did tactical mistakes yesterday. He turned a mediocre team that in the last 15 years rather had its skills in destroying the opponents' game into an offensive minded and yet successful team.

Hiddink is not far away though.

[MarioKempes]

I'd like to mention Leo Beenhakker, the Trinidad & Tobago coach. Sure, his team had little chance of advancing, but his defensive strategy with strong, balanced counterattacks almost worked.

[rat2k5]

Lippi by far. With everything that is happening around this team back home, with the scandal, Pessoto, media, injuries to key players, He has the players focused and primed to go all the way.

[DonVitazzo]

Lippi and Scolari. i dont think klinsmann because he was very lucky but he wont be against to italy :p

[acemundo]

i am fans of neither team coaches in the limelight so i think i make the fairest statement.

the best coach have to be scholari, followed by hiddink and klinsmann in that order.

the only complain i had against scholari was his team not very clean, although his achievement of managing an average portugal is for all to see.

ditto hiddink for bringing an average australian team this far.

klinsmann in my view lost out a bit as i think home court advantage had as much to do as germany advancing thus far alto still kudos to him as the german team wasn't that talented.

lippi, far from it. italian had a very talented team and quite an easy path and good luck so far. alto i have to admit have followed european soccer, lippi still ranked quite high in my assessment. but this world cup? i would still think his achievement pales in comparison to the other 3

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i am fans of neither team coaches in the limelight so i think i make the fairest statement.

the best coach have to be scholari, followed by hiddink and klinsmann in that order.

the only complain i had against scholari was his team not very clean, although his achievement of managing an average portugal is for all to see.

ditto hiddink for bringing an average australian team this far.

klinsmann in my view lost out a bit as i think home court advantage had as much to do as germany advancing thus far alto still kudos to him as the german team wasn't that talented.

lippi, far from it. italian had a very talented team and quite an easy path and good luck so far. alto i have to admit have followed european soccer, lippi still ranked quite high in my assessment. but this world cup? i would still think his achievement pales in comparison to the other 3

An average Portugal, that in the last 6 years reached 2 semi finals and 1 final of 3 major NT competitions, only 2002 was a disgrace.
I have no doubt that we are amongst the best 5 teams of the planet in the last 6 years, results speak for us.

[acemundo]

portugal reached the semis of euro 2004 and wc 2006 with scholari.

the other achievement they had in recent years was eur2000. in my opinion, the eur2000 squad of portugal was even better than the current wc2006 squad.

this only goes to show that scholari makes a whole world of difference. granted avg might have been a tad too deplorable to use on portugal, but still, it was scholari that made the difference

[MarioKempes]

portugal reached the semis of euro 2004 and wc 2006 with scholari.

the other achievement they had in recent years was eur2000. in my opinion, the eur2000 squad of portugal was even better than the current wc2006 squad.

this only goes to show that scholari makes a whole world of difference. granted avg might have been a tad too deplorable to use on portugal, but still, it was scholari that made the difference

I have one question for you. Why do you call him Scholari, instead of Scolari?

[acemundo]

haha u r right. a systematic typo error that refuses to go away.

[luftmensch]

I have one question for you. Why do you call him Scholari, instead of Scolari?
Cuz he's a learned man. You know, scholari.

[benficafan3]

portugal reached the semis of euro 2004 and wc 2006 with scholari.

the other achievement they had in recent years was eur2000. in my opinion, the eur2000 squad of portugal was even better than the current wc2006 squad.
this only goes to show that scholari makes a whole world of difference. granted avg might have been a tad too deplorable to use on portugal, but still, it was scholari that made the difference

Euro 2000- Quality

WC2006- Probably our best team ever.

[TxFan]

Hiddink, Scolari and Klinsmann get my votes. They have all done quite well with what looked like relatively mediocre rosters on paper...

[naus]

My $0.02 on the fluff part of coaching:

Klinsmann's excitement during each German goal brings charisma to the German team and football in general. He dresses well too, has a very Germanesque style.

Scolari's mannerisms remind me of a used car dealership manager.

edit, is it just me, or does Klinsmann look like Kevin Costner?

[acemundo]

Euro 2000- Quality

WC2006- Probably our best team ever.

i am afraid you are not being objective here. quality in a team is not like your sound wave that comes up and down regularly. great players once moulded, do not come up or go away in such a short matter of 2 years.

where was portugal during the wc2002? you may want to berate about how portugal was unfairly eliminated by korea but the fact is portugal was also awful against the usa. the only plausible reason for explaining such ups and down during 2002 and 2004-6? scolari

[pippomo]

Well...
A difficult one.
I liked Peckerman: wingbacks played as wingbacks, midfielders as mildfielders and so on. A no non-sense coach. Also the very criticized sub of Cambiasso for Riquelme in ARG-GER was a no-nonsense sub. A very unluky coach: the goalKeeper out, Ayala making the only great mistake of his tournament...
He built up a competitive and young side.

Second Scolari: Portugal has good players but no striker worth this name. He built up on his strongpoint providing a good defense for a team that was never famous for having formidable defenders.

Third: Hiddink. Another no non-sense coach. You can blame him for not going with 2 forwards after Italy was one man less in the field, but did he have this second forward? Aloisi? OK... Built a solid team.

[Spion Kop]

Hands down...it's Klinsmann!!!
Charming as no other and just good decisions. Lehmann over Oliver Kahn ..how can any other disagree than Oliver Kahn himself?

Klinsman is doing a remarkable job when you consider how dodgy the Germans have looked leading up to the tournament ...I would say he is no1 but for the fact they are on home soil

Scolari for me is top of the tree, purely because he has got them playing good football and at the same time they are a very solid organised unit.

And to think we could of had the great man for the Three Lions but will get the divine wisdom of Steve Mclaren instead ,oh the pain of it all :(

[Carletto Mazzone]

Sven!